Director of Quality Systems

We are seeking a Director of Quality Systems to implement, oversee, and manage company-wide Quality Assurance initiatives to ensure the highest levels of product quality at Ecovative.    

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Strategic Planning for Quality Systems: Develop a strategic quality systems framework that aligns with Ecovative's objectives and promotes a culture of continuous improvement and Lean manufacturing.
• Document Control: Oversee controlled documents and the document control system to ensure all critical documentation is current, accessible, and properly managed.
• Training: Oversee training records and training policy to ensure a current, accessible, and properly managed inventory of training levels across all controlled training.
• Process Control: Establish documented control plans for all controlled processes, focusing on consistency, quality output, definition of process control points and quality indicators, definition of action limits, actions, alarms, etc…
• Quality Assurance and Compliance: Auditing processes and quality control measures and maintaining up-to-date SOPs to ensure we “Say what we do, do what we say”.
• Quality-Led Process Improvements: Initiate and deliver process improvements as indicated by quality studies and by statistical process control methods on quality measures.
• Team Leadership: Manage and direct a small team of Quality specialists, including performance management, setting objectives, technical and behavioral development, coaching, project oversight, and employee relations.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with team managers to review and ensure company-wide Quality adherence and documentation. Communicate across departments lead system improvements and communicate expectations and corrective action items to appropriate team members.

Other Essential Duties: 

• Oversee and provide final approval of Quality investigations. 
• Identify, detect, and escalate quality-related trends and concerns. 
• Generate and communicate recommendations to senior management for investments in Quality systems and programs.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills, and Competencies: 

• Adaptable to Change: Thrives in environments with frequent R&D-driven process changes and the evolution of controls, maintaining quality amidst flux.
• Influential: Demonstrates a strong ability to foster and influence a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and Lean manufacturing principles across all levels of the organization.
• Hands-on Engagement: Commits to regular presence on the production floor to directly observe and understand operations, ensuring policies and procedures are grounded in practical reality.
• Practical Policy Development: Prefers succinct, clear, and down-to-earth policies and writings that are easily understood and implemented by all staff members.
• Realistic Compliance: Advocates for creating policies that the company can realistically adhere to, avoiding standards that would inadvertently place the company out of compliance or cause unnecessary effort to comply with
• Efficient Policy Creation: Shows a bias towards rapid development and implementation of initial versions of SOPs and policies (Rev 0) to quickly address needs, rather than delaying for perfection.

Education/Experience: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a related field. 
• 4+  years of quality management experience.
• Experience in LEAN and Six Sigma practices and Statistical Process Control   

The salary range for this role is based on the candidate's skills and experience. Starts at  $95,000 - $120,000.