Vice President-Global Quality

Vice President-Global Quality

Company Generac Power Systems

Name Vice President-Global Quality

Req # 64564

Employment Type Full Time

Shift 1st

The Vice President- Global Quality will set the strategic vision for organizational quality and directly oversee corporate responsibilities that monitor and improve customer experience measurements, reduce total cost of quality, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve the effectiveness of Generac's Quality Management System. They will also develop and execute a multi-year quality improvement plan that takes the organization from Quality Control to Quality Assurance to Process Excellence.

This is a critical role leading the development, coordination, and direction of enterprise-wide quality assurance programs that ensure continuous improvement and adherence to established standards in a complex product mix environment. They will take overall responsibility for coordinating and leading assigned resources and employees to exceed company quality and business objectives. This position requires building strong relationships with cross-functional leaders such as Operations, Service, HR, Finance, Sales/Marketing, and Engineering to impact customer experience, quality, speed, ease, and shareholder value by promoting growth, productivity, and cash.

• Sets the strategic vision for organizational quality and directly oversee the corporate responsibilities of monitoring and improving customer experience measurements, reducing total cost of quality, ensuring regulatory compliance in our processes and continually improving the effectiveness of the Generac Quality Management System.

• Develop and execute a multi-year quality improvement plan for the organization journey from Quality Control to Quality Assurance to Process Excellence.

• Ensure ongoing success of process improvement initiatives by developing policies, procedures and process documentation related to quality, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction directives;

• Establishes product quality goals, metrics, and test methods during product design and development, presents quality metrics and analysis regularly to Senior Management team and external customers as needed;

• Establish an effective audit process to be used to ensure that consistent, best-in-class results are followed to enable operational excellence;

• Drives down total product cost through the use of quality goals, performance metrics and improvement initiatives;

• Oversees development and deployment of standard quality tools, methodologies, standards, practices and improvement processes through the Generac Manufacturing System;

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent work experience

Work Experience:

• 15 years of experience in a quality function in a manufacturing environment

• 7 years progressive leadership experience in a Quality, Lean, Process Excellence, or Continuous Improvement environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: MBA or advanced degree

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior management, teams and individuals across multiple cultures, disciplines and geographies.

• Sound business acumen operating in both High Mix, Low Volume and High Volume, Low Mix Production environments.

• Solid quantitative skill set and the ability to analyze, think and communicate with well-supported data.

• Ability to ask the right questions, help frame logical conclusions and arrive at effective solutions.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Strong organization and time management skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication competencies.

• Ability to travel 25%. Travel is primarily local how ever must be able to travel to out of state locations 1 x per quarter.

THIS IS AN ONSITE ROLE BASED OUT OF OUR CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS IN WAUKESHA, WI. This position is open for relocation assistance.

"We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law."