Project Quality Manager

Voith Group•York, PA

About The Position

The Project Quality Manager provides overall quality leadership and governance for assigned hydroelectric projects from the bid phase through final customer turnover. The role ensures customer, contractual, regulatory, statutory, environmental, and company quality requirements are planned, deployed, monitored, measured, and achieved throughout the project lifecycle. Serving as the primary quality representative on project teams, the manager supports Project Managers, customers, and stakeholders across Engineering, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Construction & Commissioning, and other functions. The position owns project quality performance, risks, documentation, issue resolution, lessons learned, and continuous improvement, and reports directly to the Head of Project Quality. Occasional travel to supplier, manufacturing, project, or customer sites is required.

Requirements

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.
Demonstrated experience coordinating activities across multiple functions, organizations, and stakeholders.
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.
Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, including 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.

Nice To Haves

Experience in project-based, engineer-to-order, manufacturing, energy, construction, industrial, hydroelectric, or similar environments.
Familiarity with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, environmental compliance expectations, customer specifications, codes, standards, and contractual quality requirements.
Experience with SAP, SharePoint, quality management systems, document management systems, or project management tools.
Auditor qualifications, quality certifications, or project or improvement certifications such as ASQ, ISO Lead Auditor, Six Sigma, PMP, or equivalent experience.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field; equivalent professional experience is also accepted.

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate project quality activities 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.
Integrate customer, contractual, regulatory, statutory, environmental, and company quality requirements into project execution processes and deliverables.
Represent quality on assigned project teams and support Project Managers and stakeholders with quality-related decisions, escalations, and priorities.
Identify project quality risks and opportunities, facilitate risk assessments, and drive mitigation actions addressing project cost, schedule, technical performance, and customer satisfaction.
Lead or facilitate root cause investigations, corrective actions, nonconformance resolution, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Promote preventive quality practices 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.
Coordinate cross-functional teams to resolve quality issues in engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning.
Support supplier quality and manufacturing quality activities as required.
Coordinate with Supply Chain Quality Managers on supplier quality plans, vendor documentation, source inspection records, supplier nonconformances, and supplier quality performance.
Coordinate with the Manufacturing Quality Manager on shop inspections, tests, NDE reports, dimensional reports, quality records, and manufacturing release documentation.
Coordinate with Field Quality Managers on site documentation, construction and commissioning quality records, field nonconformances, punch-list closure, and turnover deliverables.
Facilitate customer audits, inspections, quality reviews, witness points, and project quality meetings.
Monitor project quality performance, establish 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.