Heavy Duty New Unit Controls – Quality Leader

Heavy Duty New Unit Controls – Quality Leader

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum 5 years Engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary HDNU Controls Liaison to the Controls, CSS, and Gas Power Engineering Quality Leaders in support of the four Quality Workstreams: Zero Defect Culture, New Product Introduction, Supply Base Quality, and Management of Change.
• Support response to front-line customers who feel the pain when we deliver poor quality.
• Drive improvement upstream into our processes across all of Engineering.
• Improve our engineering quality execution but also the broader Gas Power Quality workstreams.
• Drive Quality Excellence into Engineering.
• Support day-to-day Quality Operations for an organization of 240+ engineers located worldwide.
• Coordinate all HDNU quality issue resolution with Controls Engineering Quality Leader.
• Establish necessary operational infrastructure, cadence, and actionable KPIs/TTIs to communicate and track Quality performance to drive proper accountability within the functional teams.
• Coordinate necessary QMS auditing activities across HDNU Controls Engineering to support ISO accreditation, including desk-side audits, quality framework audits, and LRQA.
• Run quality management reviews with HDNU Controls leadership.
• Support Controls quality MOR (Monthly Operating Review).
• Partner with broader Corporate, Gas Power, Gas Power Engineering, and Controls quality community to drive a culture of zero-defect culture among the HDNU Controls Engineering organization.
• Broaden the application of problem-solving (root cause analysis) and continuous improvement tools in a way that will improve quality, efficiency, capacity, and process reliability.
• Drive the necessary continuous improvement processes including NCR, RCA, PSR.
• Maintain and improve daily management of quality through use of CLM and Power Now dashboards and queries.
• Enable and empower the Controls Engineering resources to identify opportunities and locally act upon to drive quality improvements.
• Celebrate and share Controls Engineering quality lessons learned and recognize success.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrates the Vernova Way Principles: Innovation, Customers, Lean, One Team, and Accountable.
• Experience in the power generation industry.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and teach others.
• Practical knowledge of root cause analysis techniques and tools.
• Appropriate experience driving quality improvement, preferably within an Engineering organization.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
• Proven to be effective driving outcomes in a large, globally matrixed organization.
• Comfortable with conflict but leads as a collaborator, facilitator, and strong partner.
• Critical, systems thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities.
• Strong analytical skills; data-driven but decisive despite ambiguity.
• Customer-focused with clear, concise written and oral communications to the appropriate level.