Project Quality Manager

About the Voith Group

The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has around 20,700 employees, sales of € 4,8 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe.

Voith Hydro is hiring for:

Project Quality Manager 
York, PA
 

 

Project Quality Manager

Voith Hydro Inc. | North America Project Quality

 

Reasons you’ll love working here:

• Flexibility with work/life balance.

• Dress for Your Day dress code.

• Great compensation and benefits package.

• Climate-neutral footprint worldwide.

• Leadership and professional development opportunities.

 

Summary:

• Provide overall quality leadership and governance for assigned hydroelectric projects from bid phase through final turnover to the customer.

• Ensure customer, contractual, regulatory, statutory, environmental, and company quality requirements are planned, deployed, monitored, measured, and achieved throughout the project lifecycle.

• Serve as the primary quality representative within the project team and support the Project Manager, customer, Engineering, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Construction & Commissioning, and other stakeholders on quality-related matters.

• Report directly to the Head of Project Quality and maintain ownership for project quality performance, quality risks, quality documentation, issue resolution, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.

 

Responsibilities:

Project Quality Leadership and Planning

• Lead and coordinate all project quality activities throughout the project lifecycle, from bid and contract review through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and customer turnover.

• Develop, maintain, and execute Project Quality Plans, Inspection and Test Plans, project quality strategies, quality schedules, and related documentation requirements for assigned projects.

• Facilitate the integration of customer, contractual, regulatory, statutory, environmental, and company quality requirements into project execution processes and deliverables.

• Act as the primary quality representative within assigned project teams, supporting Project Managers and stakeholders on quality-related decisions, escalations, and priorities.

 

Risk, Issue Resolution, and Continuous Improvement

• Identify project quality risks and opportunities, facilitate risk assessments, and drive mitigation actions to reduce impacts to project cost, schedule, technical performance, and customer satisfaction.

• Lead and facilitate root cause investigations, corrective actions, nonconformance resolution, lessons learned activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Promote a preventive quality culture focused on risk management, proactive issue resolution, customer satisfaction, and continual improvement.

• Capture, communicate, and deploy lessons learned and best practices across the project portfolio and quality organization.

 

Cross-Functional Quality Coordination

• Coordinate cross-functional teams to resolve complex quality issues arising during engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning phases.

• Support supplier quality and manufacturing quality activities as required to ensure project quality objectives are achieved.

• Coordinate with Supply Chain Quality Managers for supplier quality plans, vendor documentation, source inspection records, supplier nonconformances, and supplier quality performance.

• Coordinate with the Manufacturing Quality Manager to ensure VHY shop inspections, tests, NDE reports, dimensional reports, quality records, and manufacturing release documentation are completed and controlled.

• Coordinate with Field Quality Managers for site documentation, construction and commissioning quality records, field nonconformances, punch-list closure, and turnover deliverables.

 

Customer, Audit, and Performance Management

• Facilitate customer audits, inspections, quality reviews, witness points, and project quality meetin