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Quality Leader - RO & UF

Edina, Minnesota, United States Of AmericaPosted 2 days ago
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Job Description

At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont. Why Join Us | DuPont Careers

Quality Leader – RO & UF

DuPont Water Solutions | Reverse Osmosis & Ultrafiltration

Shape the Future of Water Quality

At DuPont, we’re solving some of the world’s most critical water challenges. As our Business Quality Leader (BQL) for the Reverse Osmosis and Ultrafiltration portfolios, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring product excellence, driving operational performance, and enabling sustainable growth across a global business.

This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for defining and executing the Manage Product Quality (MPQ) strategy, ensuring we consistently deliver on customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and business performance goals.

What You’ll Do

As a key member of the business leadership team, you will:

Lead Strategy & Governance

  • Own and deploy the MPQ Business Quality Strategy, aligning quality systems with business objectives and growth priorities
  • Establish and govern quality system architecture, operating discipline, and certification standards
  • Ensure compliance with global product quality and regulatory requirements

Drive Performance & Continuous Improvement

  • Champion a customer-first quality culture across the organization
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve customer-facing quality metrics, including a targeted 25% YoY reduction in defective parts per million (DPPM)
  • Partner with operations and manufacturing technology to reduce Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)

Enable End-to-End Quality Excellence

  • Ensure robust quality systems across:
    • Product specifications & validation
    • New product introduction (NPI)
    • External manufacturing & supplier quality
    • Raw materials & incoming inspections
    • End-to-end supply chain and distribution quality
  • Lead effective CAPA processes to resolve issues and prevent recurrence

Build & Lead Capability

  • Develop, coach, and mentor a network of quality professionals across global sites
  • Drive adoption of quality tools, metrics, and training across the business
  • Optimize leveraged quality resources and processes for efficiency and impact
  • Lead and coach on supplier audits and robust incoming materials inspection

What Success Looks Like

  • A scalable, effective MPQ strategy that enables profitable growth and risk mitigation
  • Measurable improvements in product quality, customer satisfaction, and operational performance
  • Strong cross-functional alignment and resolution of complex technical and organizational challenges

What You Bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or related field required
  • 8–12 years of progressive experience in quality leadership roles
  • Proven ability to lead global, cross-functional initiatives in manufacturing or technology-driven environments
  • Expertise in quality systems (including ISO 9001 and cGMP), regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement methodologies
  • Strong business acumen with a focus on risk management, prioritization, and value creation

Why DuPont?

  • Work on technologies that impact millions of lives through clean water solutions
  • Join a collaborative, innovation-driven culture with global reach and real business impact
  • Influence strategic decisions at the intersection of quality, operations, and customer experience

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DuPont offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package. To learn more visit the Compensation and Benefits page.

The Pay range for this role is $107,100.00 - $168,300.00 Annual

How Base Pay is Determined: DuPont has job leveling frameworks that help organize roles based on progressive levels of responsibility, proficiency and qualifications. Each role has an associated pay range (or an established pay rate for some roles) based on the competitive market in each country where we operate. Each individual’s pay is based on a variety of factors, including their role and the associated pay range for that role, their geographic location (i.e., country, state, metropolitan area), as well as their skills, experience, education and certifications, and performance.

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