Regional Quality Head

Our world depends on rocks, minerals, metals and other raw materials – the building blocks of modern society. As an industry leader, Metso helps transform these essential materials to enable sustainable modern life.

Our solutions and services support everything from renewable energy and electrification to the infrastructure and digital economy shaping our future. Together, we help our customers meet growing demand while driving the industry toward a more sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources.

Join nearly 18,000 Metsonites worldwide, each bringing unique expertise and experience to positive change. At Metso, you’re supported by a growth culture built on safety, wellbeing, inclusion and collaboration.

This is your opportunity to make an impact and rise above the possible.

Job posting end date: 04/30/2026

Regional Quality Head

Introduction 

We are seeking a highly skilled Regional Quality Head to lead the regional Consumables quality function, based within the region, with accountability for consistent deployment of quality strategy, processes, methods, standards and QA/QC technologies across operations. Ensure compliance, drive continuous improvement, resolve quality issues quickly, and strengthen customer value through data-driven quality performance management.

What you’ll do

• Lead the regional Consumables quality function across manufacturing, supply chain, and service operations, ensuring consistent quality governance and execution.
• Oversee all regional quality activities to ensure products, processes, and services meet Metso quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Deploy the quality strategy, processes, methods, standards, and QA/QC technologies and tools in line with CNS Quality direction.
• Identify and implement process improvements that enhance quality, efficiency, and business performance, leveraging Lean Six Sigma and other quality tools.
• Establish robust reporting and analysis routines using relevant quality systems and reporting tools (e.g., SAP Q-Module) to monitor trends, risks, and root causes.
• Lead customer complaint handling and regional quality issue resolution, ensuring timely containment, corrective actions, and prevention of recurrence.
• Collaborate with operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and other regions to share best practices, standardize ways of working, and build capability.
• Translate company quality strategy into regional plans, priorities, and improvement roadmaps; communicate performance and actions to senior stakeholders.
• Build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships and travel up to 40% to support sites, audits, projects, and regional or global meetings.

  What's in it for you

• An inspiring purpose - Enabling sustainable modern life. Minerals and metals are the backbone of essential functions in the modern world. However, there's a pressing need for more sustainable solutions to collect and process them. At Metso, you get to be part of transforming the industry and making a positive change.
• Wellbeing and safety - Benefit from occupational healthcare,  benefits plan, engagement surveys and others benefits.
• Compensation and rewards - Global incentive program tied to business and performance targets.
• Hybrid working possibilities - While we are big advocates of meeting and collaborating in person, we believe in fostering a flexible work environment.
• A thriving culture - We are committed to developing an inclusive culture that enables everyone to do their best and reach their full potential. A culture that is courageous, compelling, and caring, and unites our people to build a sustainable future together.
• Extensive learning opportunities - Ongoing growth dialogues, internal mobility, mentoring programs, education assistance, ambitious projects, and global opportunities.
• Worldwide support - Leverage our network of peers across the world, offering valuable assistance. We get things done together, through open and honest communication.

Metso is committed to pay equity and transparent reward practices globally. Compensation information is shared in line with local legislation and applicable recruitment practices.
 

How to join - Working at Metso - About Metso - Diversity and Inclusion - Meet our people

Metso is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

Metso is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. We improve our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increase their productivity, and reduce environmental risks with our product and service expertise. We are the partner for positive change.

Metso is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. At the end of 2025 Metso had close to 18,000 employees in around 50 countries, and sales in 2025 were about EUR 5.3 billion. Metso is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki. 

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