At WD-40 Company, quality is a strategic enabler that protects our brand, drives growth, and builds trust with consumers and partners. As Quality Manager, Americas, you will shape how we design, assess, and continuously improve quality across our supplier and filler network — translating global principles into practical execution across diverse and evolving markets, with a strong focus on Latin America.
This role goes beyond program execution. You will bring a risk-based, data-driven mindset to ensure products, processes, and external partners consistently meet company, regulatory, and consumer expectations. As a people leader, you will coach and influence across both mature and developing markets, scaling quality impact through others.
This is a remote role offering the flexibility to work from home, with 20-40% domestic and international travel to Latin America. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. and should not require sponsorship now or in the future to legally work in the U.S.
Lead Supplier and Filler Quality Engineering Oversee qualification, performance monitoring, and ongoing oversight of fillers and suppliers to ensure consistent adherence to quality standards. Drive capability development across supplier networks to deliver a compliant, reliable product at scale.
Enable Quality Readiness for Growth Lead quality readiness and supplier capability development to support expansion across LATAM markets. Anticipate risks early and embed quality considerations into new market entry and product lifecycle activities.
Apply Risk-Based Quality Decision Making Drive risk-based evaluation and management of changes across product, process, supplier, and equipment using quality engineering tools and methodologies.
Own Issue Preparedness and Response Ensure readiness for quality issues through established processes and clear escalation pathways. Lead investigations, root cause analysis, containment, and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Translate Regulatory Requirements into Practice Interpret and apply regulatory requirements across the Americas to maintain compliant quality systems and practices.
Serve as a Cross-Functional Quality Partner Act as a trusted quality advisor to Operations, Supply Chain, R&D, and Commercial teams. Embed quality principles and risk considerations into regional business decisions.
Coach and Develop the Quality Engineering Team Lead, coach, and develop a Quality Engineering team, fostering professional growth and sustained engagement.
Our “Why”
At WD-40 Company, we believe that purpose-driven, passionate people guided by our values create amazing outcomes. Our "why" is refreshingly simple - we exist to create positive lasting memories in everything we do.
Why You Should Apply
Do You Align With Our Values?
Please, only consider employment with WD-40 Company if you feel as strongly about our values as we do: We live, breathe, and play by our values every day
Thank you for considering WD-40 Company in your career search!
#PositiveLastingMemories
At WD-40 Company we foster a culture of inclusion where all individuals are recognized, valued, respected, and experience a sense of belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to individual characteristics that make us unique such as our backgrounds, experiences, qualities, talents, traits, beliefs, and preferences. #LI-CM1
Founded in San Diego, California U.S.A. in 1953, WD-40 Company is a publicly traded, global sales and marketing company. The blue and yellow can with the little red top and yellow “shield” carries with it positive brand equity - the brand is memorable, easily recognizable and known for its superiority in quality and reliability to end users across 62 unique channels of trade in more than 176 countries. Our maintenance products currently make up ~90% of net sales and homecare and cleaning products ~10%.
WD-40 Company's corporate headquarters and Corporate Brand Support Center are located in San Diego. Our ~500 highly engaged tribe members in our 15 offices throughout the world are caretakers of our brands and innovators of our future.
Our “Why”
We exist to create positive lasting memories in everything we do. We solve problems. We make things work smoothly. We create opportunities.
Our “How”
We create positive lasting memories by cultivating a tribal culture of learning and teaching which produces a highly engaged workforce who live our company’s values every day.
Our “What”
Our mission is to deliver unique, high value and easy-to-use solutions for a wide variety of maintenance needs in workshops, factories and homes. We market and distribute our brands across multiple trade channels in countries all over the world.
In the company's 70 year history, there has not been a reduction in force. We work diligently to ensure that our approach to workforce planning and hiring is conservative to ensure sustainable workforce in good times and bad. We invest carefully and our people and take seriously the commitment we make to hiring, developing and retaining. This aligns with our people first strategy: our people are not disposable.
