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:

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.

• 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 meetings.

• Monitor project quality performance, establish appropriate metrics, analyze trends, and communicate status to project and quality leadership.

• Support internal and external audits, quality verifications, compliance reviews, and management review inputs as required.

• Ensure final quality documentation, quality dossiers, quality releases, data books, and turnover packages are complete, accurate, and aligned with contract requirements.

• Travel occasionally to supplier, manufacturing, project, or customer sites as required.

Requirements:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in Quality, Manufacturing, Project Management, Construction, Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field preferred.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Project Quality, Quality Management, Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, Project Management, Construction, Engineering, or other related business functions.

• Experience working in project-based, engineer-to-order, manufacturing, energy, construction, industrial, hydroelectric, or similar environments preferred.

• Demonstrated experience coordinating activities across multiple functions, organizations, and stakeholders.

Technical and Quality Management Knowledge

• Experience managing quality risks, nonconformances, corrective actions, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Knowledge of quality management systems, auditing principles, root cause analysis, risk management, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Working knowledge of inspection and test planning, quality plans, supplier quality documentation, manufacturing quality documentation, field quality documentation, quality dossiers, quality releases, and customer turnover requirements.

• Familiarity with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, environmental compliance expectations, customer specifications, codes, standards, and contractual quality requirements preferred.

Leadership, Communication, and Tools

• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience interacting with customers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams.

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical, and decision-making abilities.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

• Experience with SAP, SharePoint, quality management systems, document management systems, or project management tools is a plus.

• Auditor qualifications, quality certifications, and project or improvement certifications such as ASQ, ISO Lead Auditor, Six Sigma, PMP, or equivalent experience are considered a plus.

Don’t meet every single requirement but think you would be a good fit for our team? We encourage you to apply – your unique skills may be just what we need for this or other roles!

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.