Job Description

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:

Engr Quality Mgr Std Spec Compliance
York, PA

– Join Voith Hydro, a global leader in renewable energy solutions, and take responsibility for engineering quality excellence across all hydroelectric projects worldwide. As Global Engineering Quality Manager, you will ensure that engineering processes, designs, and deliverables meet the highest standards of safety, reliability, and sustainability. This role combines strategic leadership with technical depth, driving quality from concept through execution for turbines, generators, and related systems.

Responsibilities

• Implement global and define regional engineering quality standards, ensuring compliance with Voith Hydro requirements and international norms for an End to End requirement management of Hydro products
• Drive and support continuous improvement of standards and specifications based on engineering data analysis, including ITPs, ensuring alignment of design requirements with supply chain, manufacturing, inspection technology, and installation.
• Drive, moderate and support standardization and modularization activities and support multifunctional work groups on module-specific improvement strategies.
• Support solutions for project-specific quality specifications for special project needs.
• Contribute to improvements of engineering design guidelines (e.g., related to D-FMEA tasks or for compliance with legal requirements/operational safety).
• Review customers’ specifications and legal/statutory requirements, compare with Voith Hydro standards, and ensure proper requirements management and compliance.
• Act as PoA with engineering to declare conformity with legal requirements (e.g. with CE, EAC, UKCA, FCC & UL, NRTL, CCC, KC, PSE, etc.) in alignment with Global Engineering Quality
• Serve as interface to authorities and certification bodies with engineering for operational safety.
• Document declaration of conformity for operational safety in alignment with project quality.
• Collaborate with project quality managers, manufacturing, and sourcing to ensure seamless integration of quality requirements across the value chain.
• Train engineering teams on the application of engineering quality standards and quality tools and methodologies (e.g., ITP, standard specifications, SPC - statistical process control).
• Collaborate with engineering to define and review DVP&R plans (design verification plan and report), ensuring alignment with functional safety, reliability targets and compliance of requirements.
• Ensure through process audits & verifications in all relevant areas that quality standards are embedded in the processes.
• Monitor engineering KPIs and compliance, reporting regularly to executive leadership.

Qualifications –

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering; certifications in Quality (e.g., CQE, Six Sigma) are a plus.
• 7-10 years of experience in engineering or engineering quality roles, ideally in a regulated or project-driven environment.
• Expertise in FMEA, DVP&R, DRBFM, ISO 9001, risk management, root cause analysis, design validation, and quality planning.
• Strong skills in analytical thinking, facilitation, cross-functional collaboration, attention to detail, and a proactive mindset.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
• Willingness to travel internationally.

Physical Demands –

Employees in this position are regularly required to walk, stand and use hands to finger, handle or feel. They are frequently required to reach with hands and arms. They are often required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employees are required to talk and hear in an industrial setting (noise level can be high at times) and regularly required to lift 10 pounds and occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.

* This job description is not all encompassing, however, is intended to be a general description of the responsibilities of this position.

Voith US Inc. is an EEO/AA/VEVRAA compliant Federal Contractor and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry including people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), Veterans, people of any age or family status. We embrace the competitive advantage that diversity brings and we strive to create a working environment that is inclusive of thought and talent.