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Quality Excellence Specialist

Sherwin-Williams

Minneapolis, MNFull-time$82–104K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$82–104K/yr
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Valid Driver's License

Job overview

The Quality Excellence Specialist focuses on reducing complexity costs, improving product consistency, and strengthening process alignment across Coil. The role develops standards and training resources, captures technical knowledge, supports digital workflow and data-management efforts, and conducts audits and process follow-ups. It also maintains KPI dashboards and reporting, leads quality-focused projects, and may visit customers and technical labs. The position includes 30% travel.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Technical WritingMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft TeamsSharePointMicrosoft Power PlatformPower AppsPower AutomateDataverseMS PlannerMS FormsMS StreamClipchampMS Lists

Qualifications

Technical Writing Degree or BS in Chemistry or Related Field4+ Years Quality or Process ExperienceMust Be 18+Valid Driver's License

Benefits

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

Full job description

Job Duties

Job duties include contact with other employees and access to confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

This position is eligible for health benefits, such as medical, dental and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), disability coverage, security, retirement and saving benefits. Additional benefits include a generous time away from work package, including personal leave, paid parental leave, medical leave, vacation, and holidays.

This position is also eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company's applicable plans.

30% Travel

Complexity Reduction - This role would focus on execution and escalation. A key member on many projects that require documentation and mapping

Identify and implement strategies to reduce complexity costs while improving product consistency including digital automated workflows (Microsoft Power Platform), data management - storage, migration, access.

Process Alignment and Leadership - Manage and develop standards, procedures and processes to enhance consistency and efficiency across Coil

Critical knowledge capture

Creating and arranging the onboarding and training resources through the Coil and Extrusion Sharepoint site

Creating/sustaining a workflow for process owners to acknowledge needs for update and republication

Facilitating instruction creation in a defined and consistent format for publication and divisional use

Organize and conduct training forums to enhance the skills and knowledge of the technical team

Lead efforts to document and capture Coil Technical historical knowledge, ensuring vital information is readily accessible.

Promote and manage knowledge-sharing tools (e.g. Sharepoint, PowerApps, etc) within the company to enhance usability and effectiveness.

Benchmark other business units digital tools, systems to leverage best practices

Completes on-site process follow ups to develop necessary procedures.

Works with QE Managers and Technicians to facilitate process adherence to divisional work instructions through audit and compliance

Performs process verification audits when required by an internal investigation or recent QE/CI process changes and reports results at various levels of the organization. Technical or Customer focused

KPI data maintenance and dashboarding. Completes monthly data reporting as requested.

Maintains a clean and safe working environment.

When needed, visits customers and Technical labs to better understand customer conditions, background work on projects, and impacts of process variance.

Lead Quality Excellence focused projects as needed.

Minimum Requirements

  • Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status)

  • Must be at least 18 years of age

  • Must have a Technical Writing Degree or BS in Chemistry or related field

  • 4-5 years of experience in Quality Control/Quality/Assurance, Process/Continuous Improvement or related field

  • Technical writing skills

  • Experience working with Office 365 including Excel, Word, PowerPoint

  • Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint, MS power platform (power apps, power automate, dataverse)

  • Valid Driver's license

Preferred Qualifications

  • MS Planner, MS forms, MS Stream and Clip Champ, MS Lists

Sherwin-Williams is proud to be an Affirmative Action, Equal Employment Opportunity, Inclusion and Diversity Supportive Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or by contract.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor requesting priority referral of protected veterans.

Minimum Education Required

Bachelor Degree

Minimum Experience Required

4 - 5 years

Shift

First (Day)

Number of Openings

1

Public Transportation Accessible

Yes

Veterans Encouraged to Apply

No

Physical Required

Yes

Drug Test Required

Yes

Compensation

$82,208.10 - $104,290.15 / Annually

Postal Code

55415

Job Type

Full Time

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

2626130

Job Benefits

Not specified

How this job compares

Set against the 5,063 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$82–104K/yr
  • Minnesota median$90–136K/yr71 salary ranges
  • US median$87–141K/yr2,297 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $93K, is 21% below the Minnesota median midpoint ($118K) — in the middle half of Quality Assurance salary ranges in Minnesota.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 129 open Quality Assurance jobs in Minnesota and 5,063 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Minnesota
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,880 postings).
Education
1,733 of the 5,063 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 4, 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.

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