Regional Quality Leader

About the role

Join Pentair, a team of passionate problem-solvers committed to the future of our planet. We help sustainably move, improve, and enjoy water—life's most essential resource—through residential water filtration, industrial water management, pool products, and more. With 9,000 global employees serving customers in over 150 countries, you’ll contribute to smart, sustainable water solutions that create a better world.

This role, based in Golden Valley, MN, leads regional quality governance, culture, escalation, and compliance frameworks to ensure consistent execution and sustained quality outcomes across the businesses. You will work closely with cross-functional leaders to proactively manage quality risk, reinforce disciplined decision-making, and protect customer trust across the enterprise. This position supports Pentair’s Global Quality Function, including other sites and client locations.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Quality Governance: Lead quality governance, including standards, operating cadence, escalation paths, and decision forums to drive consistent quality outcomes across the businesses. Establish and reinforce clear quality expectations across Product, Engineering, Operations, Supply, and Customer Service.
• Quality Culture, Risk & Escalation: Own and deploy the Quality Culture strategy, reinforcing quality-first behaviors, early escalation, and prevention-focused decision-making. Govern quality, reliability, and field risk escalation, including oversight of warranty exposure trends and systemic risk mitigation in partnership with Customer Service and Finance.
• Quality Systems & Continuous Improvement: Provide leadership and oversight for enterprise and segment quality systems, including Quality Management Systems (QMS), audits, and APQP governance. Facilitate cross-functional reviews of significant quality events to ensure permanent corrective action and sustained improvement.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Operations, Supply, and Customer Service to enable closed-loop communication between execution teams and quality governance forums. Influence outcomes through data-driven insights, clear standards, and structured escalation, without direct authority.

Requirements

• Willingness to travel 50% of the time to other company sites and client-specific locations.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or equivalent) in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in quality leadership, quality governance, or enterprise quality systems roles.
• Demonstrated experience defining and leading quality governance, compliance frameworks, or enterprise-level quality programs within complex, matrixed organizations.
• Strong working knowledge of Quality Management Systems, corrective action methodologies, and risk escalation processes across product, operational, and field environments.
• Manufacturing environment experience is required.
• Experience with quality and continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, or similar is preferred.

Pay

For this full-time position, the anticipated annualized base pay range is $128,500 – $238,600 per year. Actual compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience, pertinent education, work location, and other relevant business needs. This position may also be eligible for an annual incentive bonus and other forms of compensation.

Benefits

• Health benefits to keep you and your family protected.
• Generous 401(k) plan.
• Employee stock purchase program.
• Disability, life, critical illness, and accident insurance.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Paid time off and wellness programs to encourage work/life balance.