Director Engineering, Compliance & Quality

The Company

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation is a thriving, values-driven company focused on doing the right things. We’re a fast growing, publicly traded company (NYSE: ZWS), with an enduring reputation for integrity, giving back, and providing an engaging, inclusive environment where careers flourish and grow.

Named by Newsweek as One of America’s Most Responsible Companies and an Energage USA Top Workplace, at Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation, we never forget that our people are at the center of what makes us successful. They are the driving force behind our superior quality, product ingenuity, and exceptional customer experience. Our commitment to our people and their professional development is a recipe for success that has fueled our growth for over 100 years, as one of today’s leading international suppliers of plumbing and water delivery solutions.

Headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation employs over 2800 employees worldwide, working from 24 locations across the U.S., China, Canada, Dubai, and Mexico, with sales offices available around the globe. We hope you’ll visit our website and learn more about Zurn Elkay at zurnelkay.com.

If you’re ready to join a company where what you do makes a difference and you have pride in the work you are doing, talk to us about joining the Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation family!

As a member of Commercial Brass Leadership team, the Director of Engineering, Compliance and Quality is a highly strategic and encompassing role that provides leadership, vision, and strategies for all engineering & technology, compliance and quality activities. The position will provide organizational leadership for the engineering, compliance and quality teams while overseeing the development and implementation of robust processes and strategies to drive world class capabilities and is responsible for setting the vision and strategy for the group. This position will reside in either Cary, NC or Sanford, NC, and requires up to 25% travel.

Key Accountabilities

• Provides technical direction and organizational leadership for all engineering activities for the organization by providing team leadership, setting the overall vision, strategies, and driving their implementation, ensuring the organizations goals and objectives are achieved.

• Lead, staff and develop high performance engineering teams that effectively execute engineering activities to help grow, defend and create business using cross functional engagement to achieve organizations long term goals.

• Develop competitive differentiation by ensuring team has best-in-class technical talent to innovate, help win business and solve challenging problems by recruiting, coaching and mentoring staff and individual contributors to sustain and evolve required skills and competencies (technical and soft)

• Set vision and strategy on technological opportunities, product and technology roadmaps. Provide execution oversight for important research, development, test and evaluation efforts.

• Drive the development, implementation, management and maintenance of all aspects of internal and external quality and regulatory compliance systems in alignment with internal and external standards

• Drive quality standards throughout organization and serve as the advocate and voice of quality throughout the business creating a common culture of quality through communication, training and cross functional engagement. Support external customer design and system requirements through Application Engineering team.

• Ensure renewal of product certifications, registrations, and listings; tracking and reporting on the related costs as required. When new or modified requirements affecting product certification are identified, collaborate with engineering to transform into actionable items to ensure/maintain product compliance.

• Lead announced and unannounced certification inspections from third party agencies such as UL, CSA, NSF or any other agency as required. Lead Labs to obtain and/or maintain required lab certifications by IAPMO, CSA, NSF, UL and any other agencies in order for those agencies to accept results of product testing perform in-house.

• Set clear expectations with the teams around cradle to grave responsibility for product portfolio success. Drive a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

• Build high performing teams with continuous coaching, mentoring, teaching and talent development. Develop succession plans for key roles within the group.

Qualifications/Requirements

• BS in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering required. MBA ideal

• 10 to 15 years’ experience in leading high-performance teams

• Demonstrated experience in setting technology vision and strategy along with quality and compliance.

• Demonstrates expertise in a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.

• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals Capabilities and Success Factors.

• Customer focus with the ability to deal with the requests of sales, service and outside customers.

• Business, Technology and Market Acumen

• Extremely strong leadership skills including presentation, project management, problem solving, multi-tasking, influencing, and verbal/written communication skills a must

• Demonstrated experience analyzing data using spreadsheet applications, Microsoft Access, and/or Minitab and leveraging data to drive fact based decision making and process improvement

Total Rewards and Benefits

• Competitive Salary

• Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, AD&D, and Life Insurance

• Matching 401(k) Contribution

• Health Savings Account

• Up to 3 Weeks Vacation

• 12 Paid Holidays

• Annual Bonus Eligibility

• Educational Reimbursement

• Matching Gift Program

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Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation

What happens when two remarkable sustainability leaders come together as one?

A sustainability powerhouse is born, making a splash in the markets they serve and saving the planet one innovative installation at a time.

In early 2022, Zurn Water Solutions Corporation, a market leader in smart, sustainable water solutions, and Elkay Manufacturing, a commercial drinking water solutions leader, agreed to combine their two exceptional firms to become a single water solutions powerhouse.

Together, the combined company offers a comprehensive package of innovative, sustainable, specified, engineered water solutions and sustainable plumbing products that provide water safety, water quality, and water conservation through critical service environments, while delivering total building solutions for new construction and retrofit applications around the globe. Our innovative solutions enable customers to advance their ESG initiatives and reduce operating costs while providing students, patients, patrons, and people within public and private spaces a safe, clean environment and access to fresh, pure, potable water – the essence of life itself.

What makes Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation special is our people and our culture.

While playing a leading role in sustainability and water access are remarkable, what makes Zurn Elkay’s story so compelling is the alignment of the two well-respected companies with powerful legacies and a combined 224-year company history and shared values and cultures where people matter most.

Sustainably inspired, the company has a deep commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, water, and environmental stewardship, and giving back to the communities where we live, work and play. Our powerful legacy of caring and commitment is made possible by the exceptional people that embody Zurn Elkay’s values.

We are looking for innovative, energetic people who want to help solve tomorrow’s challenges today. Our Total Associate Engagement core value means we work hard to ensure our associates have opportunities to grow and an inclusive culture in which to thrive. From formal training to on-the-job development and exposure to new businesses, when you join Zurn Elkay, you will join a collaborative organization that will give you opportunities to thrive and grow.