Quality Lead

Schneider Electric; Ramos Arizpe; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.300.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Schneider Electric in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, invites a Product Quality Leader to steer quality across manufacturing operations. You will champion product and process quality, drive improvement initiatives, and embed a strong quality culture from start-up through full production maturity.

Lead audits, establish standards, and manage change for new lines and ramp-ups while collaborating with engineering, sourcing, and supplier quality. Advanced English and Lean Six Sigma are highly valued.

Formación

• Strategic thinking with the ability to align quality initiatives with broader business priorities.
• Strong influencing skills to drive change across cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders at all levels with clarity and confidence.
• Decisive leadership style that balances risk management, product quality, and operational efficiency.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.

Responsabilidades

• Drive product and process quality strategy and culture across manufacturing operations to minimize risk and maximize customer satisfaction.
• Lead product and process audits, quality improvement initiatives, and problem-solving activities to strengthen product and process robustness.
• Establish and maintain quality standards, control plans, and quality assurance processes for new products, manufacturing lines, and process changes.
• Lead quality activities related to new product introduction, industrialization, production ramp-up, and plant start-up.
• Oversee change management for new manufacturing lines and process changes to safeguard product quality and compliance.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for internal and customer quality issues.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Supplier Quality to ensure effective implementation of quality requirements and corrective actions.
• Establish and monitor key quality KPIs, including FPY, scrap, defects, customer complaints, and process capability.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality standards, customer requirements, and industry certifications.
• Lead quality readiness for critical manufacturing processes, including brazing and welding.
• Ensure appropriate certification, qualification, and process control requirements are established and maintained for brazing and welding operations.
• Build and develop a strong quality culture and quality ownership across the organization.

Conocimientos

Problem Solving

Process Auditing

Product & Process Quality

PFMEA

Quality Strategy

Lean Six Sigma

People Management

Statistical Process Control

Brazing & Welding Quality

Descripción del empleo

Join us as a Product Quality Leader and take the lead on quality excellence across our manufacturing operations. You'll drive product and process quality, deploy a strong quality culture, lead quality improvements, and ensure our products consistently meet the high standards our customers trust.

What will you do?

• Drive product and process quality strategy and culture across manufacturing operations to minimize risk and maximize customer satisfaction.
• Lead product and process audits, quality improvement initiatives, and problem-solving activities to strengthen product and process robustness.
• Establish and maintain quality standards, control plans, and quality assurance processes for new products, manufacturing lines, and process changes.
• Lead quality activities related to new product introduction, industrialization, production ramp-up, and plant start-up.
• Oversee change management for new manufacturing lines and process changes to safeguard product quality and compliance.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for internal and customer quality issues.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Supplier Quality to ensure effective implementation of quality requirements and corrective actions.
• Establish and monitor key quality KPIs, including FPY, scrap, defects, customer complaints, and process capability.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality standards, customer requirements, and industry certifications.
• Lead quality readiness for critical manufacturing processes, including brazing and welding.
• Ensure appropriate certification, qualification, and process control requirements are established and maintained for brazing and welding operations.
• Build and develop a strong quality culture and quality ownership across the organization.

What are the key skills we are looking for?

• Problem Solving — expert level; resolving complex manufacturing and product quality issues with creative, data-driven solutions.
• Process Auditing — expert level; conducting rigorous audits to identify risks and drive effective corrective actions.
• Product & Process Quality — expert level; ensuring product quality throughout the manufacturing lifecycle.
• PFMEA — expert level; leading failure mode analysis to proactively identify and mitigate product and process risks.
• Quality Strategy — expert level; defining and deploying quality roadmaps aligned with business and customer requirements.
• Lean Six Sigma — advanced level; applying methodologies to improve process capability and eliminate quality losses.
• People Management — advanced level; developing and leading teams to achieve quality objectives.
• Statistical Process Control — advanced level; using SPC tools to monitor, control, and stabilize manufacturing processes.
• Brazing & Welding Quality — strong technical knowledge of brazing and welding processes, qualification requirements, and applicable certifications/standards.

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Strategic thinking with the ability to align quality initiatives with broader business priorities.
• Strong influencing skills to drive change across cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders at all levels with clarity and confidence.
• Decisive leadership style that balances risk management, product quality, and operational efficiency.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.

What's in it for me?

• Lead meaningful product quality initiatives that directly impact customer satisfaction and brand reputation.
• Play a key leadership role in establishing a world-class quality organization for a new manufacturing operation.
• Work with a global team of quality, engineering, and operations experts committed to excellence.
• Access to professional development programs and continuous learning opportunities.
• Be part of a transformational manufacturing project from start-up through full production maturity.

Requirements

• Able to work onsite in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila.
• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quality Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Quality, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading quality teams and cross-functional organizations.
• Experience with brazing and welding processes, including relevant certifications, qualifications, and applicable industry standards.
• Experience with HVAC, refrigeration, cooling, heat transfer, or related manufacturing industries is strongly preferred.
• Experience with new plant start-up, industrialization, production ramp-up, or major manufacturing projects is highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Experience working in a matrix and cross-functional organization.
• Advanced English level, with the ability to communicate effectively with international stakeholders.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred.
• Experience working in multinational manufacturing organizations.Strong leadership, communication, influencing, and problem-solving capabilities.

Bring your quality leadership, manufacturing expertise, and passion for operational excellence to a team that's building something new. Help us establish a world-class operation in Ramos Arizpe and create the quality systems, talent, and culture that will enable long-term success.

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