Quality Manager (Isla Guadalupe)

Job Title

Quality Manager

Impact You'll Make in this Role

As the site Quality Manager for the Guadalupe, Mexico facility within the Purification & Filtration Business, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.

• Serve as the manufacturing site Quality Management Representative and lead the site Quality team by providing expert-level quality function leadership, guidance, and direction to your team on the Quality Body-of-Knowledge for end-to-end product and process quality assurance programs, procedures, and controls from new product development through post‑market product improvements.
• Lead the Guadalupe site Quality team by directly supervising quality engineering professionals (including objective setting and performance management) so the team effectively and efficiently interprets product and performance data and trends, responds to customer needs and requirements, resolves nonconformances, and supports business objectives to drive continuous improvement by defining guidelines, methods, and priorities, initiating and approving improvement projects to enhance product and process capabilities, and creating solutions for complex and multi‑faceted problems.
• Identify and lead improvement opportunities to proactively ensure compliance with all applicable quality regulations and standards.
• Provide guidance to internal teams and cross‑functional personnel in the development and implementation of quality strategies, while maintaining effective quality metric performance by defining and executing activities to enhance product quality, reduce process variances, and resolve signals and decreases in performance.
• Provide influential peer leadership as part of the Site Leadership Team to drive improvements in compliance, risk management, product and process quality, quality culture, and predictive quality using leading technologies, systems, and improvement tools for process control & monitoring, structured problem solving, and trend analysis with timely and effective signal resolution.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's Degree or higher AND five (5) years of quality engineering and/or quality management experience in manufacturing or medical/pharmaceutical industry.
• Four (4) years of experience in a leadership role managing, supervising, coaching, and leading a team.
• Experience co‑leading or participating in manufacturing transformation projects.
• Additional qualifications that could help you succeed: ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence, or Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
• Skills: External Audit Readiness & Management, Nonconforming Material Control, Customer Interaction and Support, Quality Engineering, Process Validation, Process Control & Monitoring, Risk Reduction, Continuous Process and Product Improvement, Field Actions & Recalls, and Organizational Leadership.
• Demonstrated organizational influence in compliance excellence, continuous improvement, product‑related risk mitigation, and process capability and efficiency enhancement.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to provide diligent, concise, and fact‑based communication to Executive Management, cross‑functional peers, and your direct report team.
• Strong leadership, decision‑making, problem‑solving, continuous improvement, and management skills with the demonstrated ability to create momentum and deliver results in a timely manner by prioritizing personal workloads, as well as providing guidance, direction, and oversight to others.

Work Location

Onsite – Guadalupe, Reciente León, Mexico

Travel

May include up to 10% domestic & international travel.

Relocation Assistance

May be authorized.

Employment Eligibility

You must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Equal Opportunity and Legal Statements

Solventum is an equal opportunity employer. Solventum will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process.