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Regional Quality Manager

$84,000-$93,000

Trulite Glass & Aluminum Solutions is looking for a Regional Quality Manager to lead quality excellence across our Greater Midwest manufacturing facilities. In this role, you will set the standard for how we build, inspect, and deliver our products, and you will make sure every location in the region meets it. You will work closely with Operations, Production, Supply Chain, Sales, and Customer Service to solve problems, reduce waste, and build a culture of accountability, safety, and quality at every plant.

Who You Are

You are a proactive, results-driven leader with a strong background in manufacturing quality. You are at your best on the plant floor, and you know how to lead real change in people, processes, and procedures. You bring a solid understanding of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement, and you are comfortable working across multiple sites and teams. You build trust easily, communicate clearly, and know how to bring plant leaders together around one consistent standard of quality.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the quality program across all Midwest facilities and make sure standards are applied consistently at every location
• Develop and implement regional quality standards, quality control systems, and quality measures
• Partner with plant managers and production supervisors to build controls and drive improvements at each site
• Travel regularly to facilities across the region to inspect processes, support teams, and see operations firsthand
• Inspect and test materials, equipment, processes, and products to make sure they meet or exceed industry standards
• Build sampling and testing plans using sound statistical methods, including sample sizes, acceptable error, and confidence levels
• Review key quality and production metrics across the region and report trends, results, and recommendations to leadership
• Investigate defects, operational errors, and customer concerns to find root causes and put effective corrective and preventive actions in place
• Support customer service and sales in resolving customer quality complaints
• Oversee the RGA (Return Goods Authorization) process, review reasons for returns, and recommend resolutions
• Work with Supply Chain on supplier quality issues
• Make sure workflows, processes, and products follow industry and safety regulations
• Lead continuous improvement in safety, quality, efficiency, and loss prevention, using 5S and lean manufacturing tools
• Write and update process procedures and share best practices between plants
• Coach and train production supervisors and plant teams on quality processes, documentation, and improvement activities
• Support customer service and sales in resolving customer quality complaints
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills You Bring

• Associate degree, or five years of industry experience
• At least three years of experience managing quality control or operational standards in a manufacturing environment
• Proven success leading behavioral and process change on the plant floor
• Knowledge of 5S, continuous improvement, and lean manufacturing
• Strong analytical, statistical, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage priorities across multiple sites
• Persuasive communication and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work well in a cross-functional, fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Bilingual in English and Spanish
• Willingness to travel up to 80% across the Midwest and Northeast.

Why Trulite:

Trulite offers the most comprehensive benefit coverage in the industry. We give our employees immediate access to health, dental, vision and life insurance benefits, as well as provide short/long-term disability coverage to protect you financially if you should incur a non-occupational illness or accident.

We are pleased to offer a comprehensive wellness initiative that includes access to a progressive financial training program.

Stay with us for a year and your 401k employer match is 100% vested and immediately becomes part of your ever improving financial plan. This is also true for those who select and contribute to their Health Savings Account. We match on both employee and family coverage to help cover out-of-pocket expenses and if unused continues to grow until needed. The employer match for your HSA, if you choose to participate, is also vested immediately at 100%, improving your financial health.

Trulite bears most of the cost of your benefits. We structured these benefits because we care not only about your physical well-being but your financial health and welfare too. Let us show you why Trulite values you as an employee and how we will help you achieve financial independence.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.