Senior Director of Quality Engineering - Cirkul, Inc.
Tampa, FL
About the Job
What is Cirkul?
Cirkul is a rapidly growing beverage technology company on a mission to make a healthier world by helping people enjoy drinking more water.
The team at Cirkul developed an innovative beverage delivery system that makes drinking more water delicious, fun, and personalized. The technology reduces the shipping weight of bottled beverages by 96% and uses 84% less plastic. Cirkul offers its customers 100+ unique flavors, all with no sugar, zero calories, no artificial colors, and a range of functional enhancements online, at Walmart, and other retailers across the United States. Hundreds of thousands of consumers are using Cirkul to transition from single-use plastics and sugar-filled beverages to healthier, better-for-you alternatives.
What is this role?
As a Sr. Director of Quality Engineering for Cirkul, you will oversee a wide range of disciplines within the Cirkul Organization along with building the organization to meet our growing needs. Quality Engineering encompasses Supplier Quality for food and plastic components, Quality Engineering, Reliability Engineering (Boston), and Incoming Inspection. The role of the Sr. Director will be to empower individual leaders and contributors, while establishing KPI's for each group. Additionally the Sr. Director will work to establish and champion processes that meet the growing needs of Cirkul as a business (QMS, PLM, supplier score carding, etc.)
What does an average day look like?
- Driving Results: Establish key processes and metrics that will ensure Cirkul is producing good products, communicating with suppliers clearly and proactively, and making informed decisions when it comes to purchasing and producing parts. Develop and hire the team to achieve those results.
- Taking Ownership: Roll out platforms and processes that fit the Cirkul business and allow us to scale. Establish a great team to help us achieve our goals.
- Making Decisions: Understand what "good enough" means for the business while managing risk.
- Cultivating Relationships: Work with outside vendors in a proactive manner to ensure we are purchasing the best product both domestically and internationally. Work closely with our manufacturing team to qualify equipment and new parts. Work closely with our Supply Chain team to establish and monitor our AVL.
- Instilling Trust: Be a leader for a wide variety of teams inside and outside of the engineering organization. Help people understand the value of quality, and empower people in and out of the engineering team with the tools and methods that ensure good quality.
- Customer Focus: Be a champion for quality and make it everyone else's mission as well.
What background should you have?
- 8+ years of Quality Engineering experience, preferably with high volume consumer products.
- 5+ years of management experience.
- Familiar with consumer products, preferably in a regulated setting.
- Familiar with working with 3rd party contract manufactures both domestically and in the far east.
- Strong understanding of statistical methods for collecting and analyzing manufacturing data.
- Strong understanding of test methods do determine product performance for new and existing products.
- Strong understanding of injection molded plastic parts (Metrology, Food safety compliance, assembly methods).
- Great people and communication skills. Able to communicate complex ideas to non-technical staff and be a champion of quality and best practices.
- Strong root cause analysis skills.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results.
- Demonstrated ability to work across organizational and functional boundaries.
What do we offer?
- Competitive salary based on experience and market
- Generous benefits, 401k match, and PTO (even insurance for your fur babies!)
- Employee discounts on Cirkul products
- New corporate office space with great amenities
- Opportunity to work with a best in class team, in a hyper growth company, taking over the hydration industry
- A culture that rewards results
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