Enterprise Quality Leader - Multi Site Chemicals

Ascent Chemicals; Cleveland (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Ascent Industries Co. in Cleveland, TN seeks a Business Quality Leader to oversee enterprise quality across the manufacturing network, driving proactive quality performance, risk management, and continuous improvement.

The role leads multi-site teams to convert quality issues, customer feedback, and manufacturing changes into enterprise projects while championing analytical rigor and disciplined root-cause analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Materials Science, or a closely related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive Quality leadership experience within specialty chemicals, polymers, surfactants, emulsions, lubricants, or related chemical manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading Quality across multiple chemical manufacturing sites, including leading multiple site Quality teams, driving Quality expectations across product lines, identifying systemic issues, and transferring effective practices and technical learnings.
• Demonstrated track record of leading transformational enterprise Quality improvement initiatives that delivered measurable financial results.
• Strong technical understanding of chemical manufacturing, product quality, analytical methods, specifications, process variability, and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead and prioritize the Quality Improvement Project Portfolio across Manufacturing, R&D, Process Engineering, Commercial, and Supply Chain.
• Provide leadership to Site Quality Managers and Quality Assurance Manager with enterprise view of quality performance.
• Drive cross-site Quality performance by benchmarking, identifying systemic risks, and transferring best practices.
• Drive measurable improvement in First-Time-In-Spec performance, product consistency, and corrective-action effectiveness.
• Build a culture of analytical excellence, strengthening analytical methods, measurement reliability, laboratory practices, and disciplined problem-solving across the network.
• Establish expectations for Quality Change Management and ensure significant changes are properly assessed and implemented.
• Ensure significant Quality issues, customer complaints, and root-cause investigations receive technical rigor and recurrence prevention.
• Identify and prioritize enterprise investments in analytical capability, Quality systems, methods, tools, and training.
• Other Duties as Assigned

Skills

Quality leadership

Cross-site collaboration

ISO 9001

Statistical quality methods

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or chemical engineering

Tools

ERP systems

Statistical software

Job description

Ascent Industries Co. in Cleveland, TN seeks a Business Quality Leader to oversee enterprise quality across the manufacturing network, driving proactive quality performance, risk management, and continuous improvement.

The role leads multi-site teams to convert quality issues, customer feedback, and manufacturing changes into enterprise projects while championing analytical rigor and disciplined root-cause analysis.