Senior Quality Lead

Who We Are

At Watts, we can feel proud every day about what we do. No matter what function we support, we're all part of the same crucial mission - to provide safe, clean water for the world, and to protect our planet's most valuable resource.

That's why we've designed and manufactured high-quality products for 150 years, that are trusted by customers across the globe. It's why we're at the forefront of innovation and work with industry-leading technology to provide smart and connected, sustainable water solutions for the future. And it's why we help people around the world gain access to water through our humanitarian work.

We care - about quality, sustainability, and each other. We work collaboratively, as One Watts, to make a real difference. After all, the whole world needs water. Not many companies can offer that level of stability and career growth, combined with real purpose. What we do matters - together, we're reimagining the future of water.

The Distribution Senior Quality Leader has responsibility for promoting quality culture across Watts distribution sites, provides analysis, insight, training, coaches and directly applies quality principles to distribution business functions within Watts enhancing the customer experience. You will work with distribution sites and manufacturing sites to achieve significant improvements to processes that are linked to distribution site quality and focused on the customer, resulting in balanced measurable improvements. You will be hybrid at one of the Distribution Centers, reporting to the Manager, Distribution Centers.

You Will:

• Lead and manage standardized quality activities across distribution sites, aligned with Watts Global Quality Initiatives
• Drive positive quality culture
• Champion, measure, and report distribution quality initiatives and projects
• Facilitate strategy and goal deployment across distribution sites as prescribed by Supply Chain and Global Quality Senior Leadership.
• Lead audits and inspections to ensure conformance and reports findings
• Analyze quality problems and develop a project funnel
• Interface with external suppliers, manufacturing sites and customers on quality related issues
• Initiate and coordinate distribution quality data collection, analysis and reporting using statistical techniques
• Organize, monitor and distribute information related to distribution quality processes including ISO 9001 standards
• Evaluate and score quality within the distribution sites
• Help design and evaluate distribution quality assurance systems, procedures and statistical techniques
• Conduct training on quality concepts and tools with distribution managers, supervisors and associates
• Identify and develop distribution site level quality champions to assist with site level functions
• Detect internal and external best practices for distribution, and share across distribution sites, manufacturing sites and Watts leadership

You Have:

• Minimum of 5 years distribution or logistics experience
• Experience supporting and enhancing quality systems
• Hands-on experience, including lean, 5S and visual management
• Experience performing auditing functions
• Solid project management experience, focusing on execution and decision-making capability
• Working knowledge of multiple business functions, including operations, logistics, sales, customer service, engineering and IT
• Experience training and coaching a formal problem-solving methodology
• Ability to lead and collaborate with cross-functional site leadership,
• Effectively lead and managed change
• Willingness to advance Quality certifications and professional knowledge

What's In It For You:

* People-First Culture - Enriching and caring for people is at the core of who we are; this includes our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, and providing our employees with meaningful career growth opportunities, a positive and safe work environment, and affirmation that they are heard, valued, and respected.

* 401K Plan

* Flexible PTO & Generous Paid Holidays

* Educational Assistance

* Variety of Medical plan options - choose the one that is right for you!

* Sustainability - One of Newsweek's Top 400 of "America's Most Responsible Companies" for sustainability performance, three years running.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

While performing the responsibilities of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, talk, and/or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. You must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include: close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work in both office and manufacturing environment. May occasionally be required to perform job responsibilities outside the typical office setting.

Watts is committed to equal employment opportunity. We follow a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic disposition or carrier status, marital status, military or veteran status, minorities, or any other category protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, Watts will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.