Vice President - Global Quality

AIRSYS is seeking an experienced Vice President, Global Quality to lead our global quality strategy, systems, and organization across operations in the United States, China, Europe, and future locations.

Reporting directly to the Co-CEO, this executive will oversee product, manufacturing, supplier, project, and customer quality across our growing portfolio of air cooling, liquid cooling, and modular data center solutions.

This is a highly strategic, technical, and customer-facing leadership position. The successful candidate will bring extensive experience in mission-critical infrastructure, thermal management, high-reliability electromechanical equipment, or related industries, with demonstrated success leading global quality organizations and supporting demanding hyperscale and data center customers.

The position requires a leader who can build scalable global quality systems, drive preventive and risk-based quality management, strengthen product reliability, reduce warranty exposure, and establish quality standards supporting continued international growth.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Global Quality Leadership & Strategy

• Develop and execute a global quality strategy aligned with business growth, product development, manufacturing expansion, and customer requirements.
• Lead and develop global quality teams across North America, China, Europe, and future operating locations.
• Establish consistent quality standards, governance, performance metrics, and escalation processes across global facilities.
• Provide executive leadership with visibility into quality risks, product readiness, customer issues, and improvement initiatives.

Customer Quality & Mission-Critical Infrastructure

• Serve as the executive quality interface for strategic customers, including hyperscalers, colocation operators, and mission-critical infrastructure customers.
• Translate customer specifications, contractual requirements, and quality expectations into measurable internal quality standards.
• Oversee customer quality audits, major escalations, project quality planning, and continuous improvement commitments.
• Ensure effective quality governance throughout design, manufacturing, factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), commissioning, and after-sales support.

Manufacturing Quality & Global Quality Systems

• Lead the development and continuous improvement of the global Quality Management System (QMS), including ISO 9001 compliance.
• Establish consistent manufacturing quality standards, process controls, inspection requirements, and corrective-action methodologies.
• Support new plant launches, manufacturing expansion, global product transfers, and production ramp-ups.
• Drive measurable improvements in first-pass yield, product reliability, customer quality, scrap, rework, and cost of poor quality.

Product Quality, Engineering & Reliability

• Partner with R&D and engineering teams to embed quality and reliability requirements into new product development and product introduction.
• Oversee quality planning for chillers, CRAC/CRAH systems, coolant distribution units (CDUs), liquid cooling, and hybrid cooling technologies.
• Establish preventive quality processes using DFMEA, PFMEA, reliability testing, design validation, and structured risk assessment.
• Implement closed-loop field failure analysis and corrective-action systems to prevent recurring product and customer issues.

Supplier Quality & Global Supply Chain

• Partner with procurement and supply chain leadership to establish global supplier quality standards and qualification requirements.
• Provide independent oversight of supplier quality risks, audits, corrective actions, and critical component reliability.
• Support quality controls for compressors, heat exchangers, pumps, fans, electrical components, controls, and other critical systems.

Quality Transformation & Organizational Development

• Establish common global quality KPIs, reporting systems, and quality data governance.
• Drive integration of QMS, ERP, MES, and field-quality information to improve traceability and decision-making.
• Develop global quality leadership talent, succession planning, and consistent operating practices.
• Foster a preventive, customer-focused quality culture across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, and service.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Refrigeration/HVAC Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in quality, engineering, or manufacturing management, including at least 8–10 years in director-level or more senior quality leadership.
• Direct industry experience in data center critical infrastructure, thermal management, liquid cooling, mission-critical HVAC, power distribution, modular data centers, or related high-reliability electromechanical equipment manufacturing.
• Direct experience working with hyperscalers, colocation operators, or major mission-critical customers on quality audits, acceptance requirements, escalations, significant field failures, or warranty matters.
• Proven experience leading quality functions across multiple countries, manufacturing locations, and geographic regions, including North America and Asia and/or Europe.
• Demonstrated success building, transforming, or scaling global quality management systems and supporting manufacturing expansion or new product introduction.
• Strong technical expertise in APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, SPC, MSA, 8D, CAPA, and reliability engineering.
• Strong executive communication, organizational leadership, and cross-functional problem-solving capabilities.
• Fluent business English and willingness to travel internationally more than 50% of working time.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Direct quality leadership experience with chillers, CRAC/CRAH systems, CDUs, liquid cooling, air cooling, or hybrid cooling solutions.
• Experience supporting hyperscale cloud providers and major colocation data center customers.
• Master's degree or MBA.
• Six Sigma Black Belt/Master Black Belt, ASQ certifications, or equivalent credentials.
• Experience developing global quality organizations across China, North America, and Europe.