Job Description

Every day, ANDRITZ continues to deliver successful innovative solutions to our customers globally. Why are we so successful? Because we are passionate and love what we do! We are at the forefront of future engineering technologies, with solutions that ensure the success of our clients in key industries that are shaping the future of the world we live in.

The PAD North America Quality Manager is a key leadership role responsible for driving quality and process excellence across all Product Groups in the region. This position oversees project and product quality throughout all phases and ensures full compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, IEC 62443, ANDRITZ Group regulations, PAD processes, cybersecurity requirements, and applicable customer contracts.

The Quality Manager serves as the primary point of contact for quality matters in the PAD North America region, maintains required certifications, leads lessons-learned initiatives, supports assessments and audits, drives continuous improvement, coordinates non-conformance management, and steers quality reporting activities. The role works closely with the Global Head of PAD Quality, Health, Safety & Environment, the Head of PAD NA, and the leaders of each North American Product Group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Quality Leadership and Continuous Improvement
  
  • Foster a strong culture of lessons learned, transparency, and continuous improvement across all Product Groups in PAD North America.
  • Ensure project and process compliance with applicable standards (ISO, IEC 62443), ANDRITZ Group regulations, PAD process descriptions, and customer contractual requirements.
  • Maintain PAD NA’s ISO certifications (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001).
  • Lead root cause analyses and develop corrective and preventive actions for project- and technical-related non-conformities.
  • Coordinate and execute the Non Conformance Report (NCR) process, including follow-up, documentation, and integration into lessons-learned and risk-management frameworks.
• Cybersecurity Compliance
  
  • Lead cybersecurity compliance activities for NA projects in alignment with IEC 62443 expectations.
  • Identify project-specific cybersecurity scope (products, solutions, and services).
  • Determine and coordinate required cybersecurity actions and resources.
  • Assign and support Cybersecurity Engineers (CSEs) to perform required cybersecurity tasks.
• Quality Monitoring and Reporting
  
  • Provide transparency on quality and cybersecurity performance by developing, implementing, and maintaining consistent reporting processes across PAD NA.
  • Collaborate with global PAD regions and Product Groups to harmonize processes and share best practices.
  • Develop and execute project-specific Quality Monitoring, beginning in the sales phase, including:
    
    • Ensuring complete and timely quality documentation aligned with project schedules.
    • Verifying that product specific quality documents are reviewed and approved.
    • Participating in supplier and intercompany manufacturing meetings including assessments and FAT’s.
    • Creating and executing product-specific quality test plans in collaboration with R&D and Product Management.
    • Supporting project and product risk assessments, including assistance with FMEA activities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in chemical, process, electrical, or automation and control engineering or practical equivalent
• Minimum of five (5) years’ technical experience in automation, electrification, instrumentation, or digitalization work.
• Experience with automation and IT systems / programming and scripting skills.
• Demonstrated Cyber-security experience
• Ability to lead and mentor diverse, cross-functional technical teams.
• Strong business acumen with a passion for improving processes and procedures.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; proficiency in English required.

Other Valued Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Consulting engineering experience
• Project execution experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.