Construction & Commissioning Quality Manager

Lead site quality management for hydroelectric construction, installation, testing, commissioning, customer acceptance, and project closeout activities. Ensure quality requirements are implemented and verified at site to support safe, compliant, and reliable project execution. Serve as the primary quality interface between Voith site teams, Project Quality, Project Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Quality, subcontractors, vendors, customer inspectors, and site stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead site quality management for hydroelectric construction, installation, testing, commissioning, customer acceptance, and project closeout activities; Ensure quality requirements are implemented and verified at site to support safe, compliant, and reliable project execution; Serve as the primary quality interface between Voith site teams, Project Quality, Project Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Quality, subcontractors, vendors, customer inspectors, and site stakeholders; Manage site quality documentation, customer submittals, NCRs, corrective actions, inspection readiness, customer witness inspections, quality records, turnover packages, and final acceptance support; Promote prevention-based quality by building quality requirements, inspection expectations, acceptance criteria, environmental compliance needs, and lessons learned into site execution processes; Support compliance with quality, environmental, health, safety, contractual, regulatory, statutory, and Voith Business Management System requirements; Develop, review, maintain, and execute site-specific Quality Plans, Construction & Commissioning Inspection and Test Plans, inspection checklists, quality schedules, and related documentation; Manage NCRs, quality findings, deviations, punch-list items, and corrective actions; Coordinate internal and external inspection resources for mechanical, electrical, dimensional, welding, coating, NDE, calibration, commissioning, and functional testing; Ensure Voith employees, vendors, subcontractors, and site suppliers uphold applicable quality requirements, site procedures, customer specifications, and accepted work practices

Requirements

Experience in construction quality, commissioning quality, field service quality, project quality, manufacturing quality, supplier quality, site management, or a comparable technical quality role; Demonstrated experience working directly with customers, site teams, subcontractors, suppliers, inspectors, project managers, and cross-functional technical stakeholders; Working knowledge of Quality Management Systems and ISO 9001 principles; Experience with NCR management, root cause analysis, corrective action, preventive action, effectiveness verification, audit findings, lessons learned, and continuous improvement; Knowledge of Inspection and Test Plans, quality plans, customer witness/hold points, site quality records, commissioning records, test reports, quality dockets, data books, and customer turnover documentation; Ability to interpret customer specifications, contracts, drawings, procedures, inspection results, acceptance criteria, statutory/regulatory requirements, and environmental compliance expectations; Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and customer-facing skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority; Highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities, documents, inspections, NCRs, and customer actions simultaneously; Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities with a pragmatic, solution-driven, and customer-oriented working style; Willingness and ability to travel frequently to construction, commissioning, manufacturing, supplier, and customer sites as business needs require

Nice to have

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, or a related technical discipline preferred; equivalent experience may be considered; Experience supporting hydroelectric, power generation, heavy industrial, engineer-to-order, manufacturing, construction, commissioning, or large project-based environments preferred; Familiarity with ISO 14001 environmental management and ISO 45001 occupational health and safety principles preferred; Experience with dimensional inspection, mechanical inspection, electrical testing, NDE, welding, coating, calibration, site installation, commissioning, and/or functional testing is preferred; Practical knowledge of Microsoft Office, SharePoint, SAP, quality management systems, document management systems, databases, tracking tools, and digital quality tools preferred; Auditing qualification or experience is preferred, including ISO 9001, ISO 19011, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, supplier/process audits, site audits, or equivalent audit training

Benefits

Flexibility with work/life balance; Dress for Your Day dress code; Great compensation and benefits package within a global engineering and manufacturing organization; Climate-neutral footprint worldwide, with work tied directly to renewable hydroelectric infrastructure and sustainable energy; Leadership and professional development opportunities through site quality management, audits, root cause analysis, customer witness inspections, and cross-functional project execution; Opportunity to directly influence customer acceptance, project turnover, quality performance, site lessons learned, and continuous improvement across construction and commissioning activities