Carrier logo

Senior Manager, Quality

Carrier

Charlotte, NCJob$118–235K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.

You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.

Watch jobs like this.

Don't just apply. Show up ready.

Olive works from this exact posting.

At a glance

Compensation
$118–235K/yr
Location
Charlotte, NC
Work Authorization
Not specified

Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.

Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Lean Six Sigma Green Or Black Belt

Job overview

Carrier seeks a Senior Manager, Quality Assurance to lead the site's Quality Management System and ensure compliance with corporate, regulatory, customer, and industry standards. The role provides strategic and operational leadership across quality assurance, control, supplier and customer quality, and quality systems. It partners with cross-functional teams to improve product quality, reduce costs, enhance customer satisfaction, and support business growth.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Quality ManagementLean Six SigmaTechnical WritingEnglish CommunicationProject ExecutionProject PlanningDocumentation

Qualifications

Bachelor's+7 or Master's+5 YearsLean Six Sigma Green or Black BeltASQ CMQ/OE or CQE

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

About Carrier

Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food, lifesaving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

About this role

The Senior Manager, Quality Assurance is responsible for leading the site's Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with corporate, regulatory, customer, and industry standards while driving a culture of quality and continuous improvement. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for quality assurance, quality control, supplier quality, customer quality, and quality systems activities. The Quality Assurance Manager partners closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Customer Service teams to improve product quality, reduce Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), enhance customer satisfaction, and support business growth initiatives.

We value our people and offer an extensive benefits package, with financial rewards including health insurance, retirement savings plan, and lifestyle support with flexible working and parental leave. Plus, we’ll support your growth with paid-for external training programs and courses.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and facilitate quality improvement projects

  • Implement and sustain quality tools into daily manufacturing culture (5S, Standard Work, Root Cause Analysis, PDCA, etc.)

  • Analyze operational data, identify opportunities for process optimization, quality improvement, and cost savings

  • Develop and implement standard work procedures, improve consistency and reduce variability in operations

  • Educate lower-level and peer employees on how to apply quality tools and methodologies in business and manufacturing environments to drive best in class processes and products

  • Coach lower-level and peer employees on how to apply best practices related to quality control procedures to effectively evaluate an organization's products

  • Partner with Operations and Engineering to improve process capability and product quality.

  • Prioritize safety and compliance with regulatory requirements in operational activities.

  • Lead customer, ISO 9001, and ASME audits from the quality perspective.

  • Support new product introduction (NPI), process validation, and risk management activities including FMEA and control plans.

** **

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of quality management experience or Master’s degree and 5+ years of quality management experience

  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification

Preferred Qualifications

  • Technical writing to create, review, & approve protocols/reports, work instructions, forms, and SOPs.

  • Written & verbal English communication skills,

  • Drive & execute projects, meet project timelines, work cooperatively, lead by using project planning skills and documentation

  • ASQ Certified Quality Manager (CMQ/OE) or Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $117,500.00 - $234,500.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate. The pay range will not be below the minimum wage applicable to the jurisdiction in which the applicant is to be employed.

Other Compensation

This position is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.

Benefits

Employees are eligible for benefits, including:

  • Health Care Benefits : Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives

  • Retirement Benefits

  • Time off and Leave : Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation

  • Disability : Short-term and long-term disability

  • Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment

  • Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account

  • Tuition Assistance

To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here Work with us | Carrier Corporate (https://www.corporate.carrier.com/careers/work-with-us/) . The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Carrier EEO Statement and Accommodations Process

Carrier is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. Carrier provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with section 503 of Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, participate in an interview, or otherwise engage in the hiring process, please contact us at [email protected] . We will make every effort to meet your needs in accordance with applicable laws.

Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted for at least 3  days from Job Posting Date: 26 October 2026

Job Applicant's Privacy Notice

Please click on the link to review the Job Applicant Privacy Notice (https://www.corporate.carrier.com/legal/privacy-notice-job-applicant/) .

Use of AI

Technology-enabled tools may support parts of the recruitment process, with oversight by people.

How this job compares

Set against the 5,027 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$118–235K/yr
  • North Carolina median$85–140K/yr65 salary ranges
  • US median$88–143K/yr2,275 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $176K, is 49% above the North Carolina median midpoint ($118K) — in the top quarter of Quality Assurance salary ranges in North Carolina.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 222 open Quality Assurance jobs in North Carolina and 5,027 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in North Carolina
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,858 postings).
Education
1,725 of the 5,027 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

Prepare for this role

You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.