Director of Service Quality
About The Position
ON.energy is building the power infrastructure that makes the AI era possible. As AI demand surges past what the grid and traditional data centers can support, ON.energy provides a new class of power technology proven at gigawatt scale and trusted by the world’s leading cloud and AI companies. Our systems are already deployed across 2.5 GW of hyper-scale campuses, validated by top U.S. national labs, and certified for grid-safe operation by major utilities. With real products in the field, we’re scaling faster than the grid can, transforming power from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage for the companies building the future. Director of Service Quality Job Title: Director of Service Quality Location: Houston, TX or Miami, FL; field travel required Reports To: VP of Quality Position Summary The Director of Service Quality is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously improving the quality strategy for service, commissioning, field operations, and post-installation support. This role ensures that field quality issues are identified, contained, investigated, corrected, and prevented through disciplined problem solving, strong cross-functional execution, and effective quality governance. The Director will partner closely with Service, Commissioning, Engineering, Supplier Quality, Project Management, Operations, and Customer-facing teams to improve system reliability, reduce repeat failures, strengthen customer confidence, and drive a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Reliability, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in service quality, field quality, reliability, product quality, supplier quality, operations quality, or technical service leadership.
- 5+ years of people leadership or cross-functional quality leadership experience in a technical, industrial, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, or electro-mechanical environment.
- Strong experience leading field issue resolution, root cause analysis, corrective action, and preventive action programs.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze service data, quality trends, reliability performance, warranty drivers, and customer-impacting issues.
- Working knowledge of Quality Management Systems, NCR/CAPA processes, document control, audit practices, and ISO 9001 principles.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams, suppliers, service partners, and senior leaders without relying solely on direct authority.
- Willingness to travel to project sites, supplier locations, customer locations, and service events as required.
Nice To Haves
- Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, ASQ certification, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent quality/reliability certification.
- Familiarity with electrical safety, commissioning protocols, supplier quality management, construction quality, and customer acceptance processes.
- Experience building dashboards or quality reporting mechanisms using QMS, ERP, CRM, service management, or business intelligence platforms.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the Service Quality strategy, roadmap, and operating rhythm across field service, commissioning, warranty, customer escalations, and installed-base performance.
- Establish and manage field quality processes for issue intake, containment, triage, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, verification of effectiveness, and recurrence prevention.
- Lead cross-functional investigations of field failures involving equipment, installation, commissioning, controls, software, supplier components, workmanship, documentation, or process gaps.
- Define and track service quality KPIs, including field failure rate, repeat failure rate, first-time fix rate, mean time to repair, mean time between failures, customer-impacting incidents, NCR cycle time, CAPA closure rate, and warranty cost drivers.
- Partner with Project Engineering and Product Quality to translate field learnings into design improvements, reliability enhancements, service bulletins, installation standards, and product change priorities.
- Collaborate with Supplier Quality to ensure supplier-related field failures are properly contained, escalated, investigated, and resolved through effective supplier corrective action plans.
- Drive standardization of field inspection methods, service quality audits, defect classification, escalation thresholds, and customer-facing quality communications.
- Lead quality reviews for critical customer issues, major field events, warranty claims, and systemic reliability concerns; ensure executive-level visibility and timely decision-making.
- Promote a disciplined problem-solving culture using tools such as 8D, 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, fault-tree analysis, failure mode analysis, and data-driven prioritization.
- Ensure service quality processes align with the company’s Quality Management System, ISO 9001 expectations, document control requirements, NCR/CAPA workflows, and continuous improvement practices.
Benefits
- Competitive salary + annual performance-based bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Competitive salary + annual performance bonus eligibility
- Christmas Bonus (Aguinaldo): 30 days
- Major medical expenses and life insurance
- Paid time off and holidays (per local policy)
- Professional development and growth opportunities
- Opportunity to grow with a mission-driven team shaping the future of clean energy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
