Your Job
As a Senior Quality Assurance Director, you will lead and elevate quality performance across multiple DSS manufacturing sites, ensuring the delivery of world-class products and customer experience. You will play a critical role in driving a zero-defect culture, strengthening quality systems, and enabling operational excellence across Molex Guadalajara and North America sites.
This role requires a highly influential leader who can connect strategy with execution, working closely with plant leadership, customers, and global stakeholders to create sustainable, value-driven quality outcomes in a complex manufacturing environment.
What You Will Do
Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Quality Management Systems across multiple manufacturing sites.
- Drive a zero-defect mindset, focusing on preventive actions, root cause elimination, and failure avoidance.
- Partner with plant leadership teams to align quality strategies with business objectives and customer requirements.
- Represent the organization in customer quality matters, leading resolution of issues and strengthening customer relationships.
- Sponsor and lead Lean Six Sigma initiatives to drive continuous improvement and reduce Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and quality standards such as ISO 9000 and corporate guidelines.
- Lead and conduct internal quality system audits, ensuring consistency and effectiveness across all sites.
- Coach and develop teams in advanced quality tools and methodologies, including SPC, FMEA, APQP, QFD, and problem-solving frameworks.
- Support new project implementation by ensuring robust quality planning and readiness.
- Collaborate with global Molex sites to ensure consistent quality standards for transferred and imported products.
- Advise senior leadership on quality strategy, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Drive performance through key quality metrics, including audit results, defect rates, customer complaints, and reaction time.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
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Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in quality leadership within manufacturing environments.
- Proven experience leading multi-site quality organizations or regional quality functions.
- Strong knowledge of quality systems, standards, and methodologies (ISO, SPC, FMEA, APQP, etc.).
- Experience driving continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar approaches.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functions and geographies.
- Experience working directly with customers and managing complex quality issues.
- Advanced English level (C1 or equivalent) for global communication.
What Will Put You Ahead
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Experience in high-complexity, fast-paced manufacturing industries (electronics, automotive, or similar).
- Strong background in leading cultural transformation toward zero-defect and continuous improvement.
- Certification in Lean Six Sigma or quality auditing (ISO/IATF).
- Experience managing large teams and developing leadership pipelines (100+ employees).
- Exposure to multinational operations and cross-regional collaboration.
- Ability to translate data and metrics into strategic decisions and business impact.
Who We Are
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
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