Project Quality Specialist (f/m/d)

Hitachi Energy; Mannheim; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 vacation days

Career development opportunities

Pension-related benefits

Fitness and wellbeing programs

Childcare subsidy

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Project Quality Manager in Mannheim to support the PM team with quality issues across projects. You will lead the implementation of processes along the value chain to improve customer satisfaction and profitability in a safe working environment.

Join a team focused on ensuring control plans, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement while collaborating with suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• University degree, preferably in engineering or quality management.
• 5 years of experience in projects, engineering, or quality-related roles.
• Strong communication skills and openness to new approaches.
• Fluent German and advanced English skills.

Responsibilities

• Cooperating with the customer on project quality issues and owning actions to resolve it.
• Plan quality assurance activities and develop schedules, estimates, and budgets for quality activities.
• Apply project quality procedures and ensure implementation and compliance by the project team.
• Certify internal controls (project, supply, site) are in place to meet requirements and mitigate risks.
• Perform audits on project delivery and use quality data analytics to identify risks and nonconformances.

Skills

Project quality management

Communication skills

Lean Six Sigma Yellow/Green Belt

Fluent German

Willingness to travel

Education

University degree (engineering/quality)

Job description

Embrace Diversity and Innovation! High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is a key enabler for a carbon-neutral energy system. It is highly efficient for transmitting large amounts of electricity over long distances, integration of renewables and interconnecting grids, opening for new sustainable transmission solutions. By joining the HVDC team in Germany (DEHVDC), you will be contributing to the energy transition in Germany and around the world.

Embrace Diversity and Innovation! High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is a key enabler for a carbon-neutral energy system. It is highly efficient for transmitting large amounts of electricity over long distances, integration of renewables and interconnecting grids, opening for new sustainable transmission solutions. By joining the HVDC team in Germany (DEHVDC), you will be contributing to the energy transition in Germany and around the world.

The Opportunity

Ensures support to the project management team regarding all quality related issues on projects to support its objective achievement in terms of quality, supplier & subcontractor quality, and customer satisfaction. Leads the implementation, maturity assessment and improvement of all processes along the entire value chain to improve customer satisfaction and increase profitability in a safe working environment across the project.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Cooperating with the customer on Project Quality issues and ensuring ownership of actions to resolve it. Enabling and coaching all project team members to evaluate risks, problems and solutions from a quality and customer/stakeholder point of view
• Analyzing transferability of experience between projects as well as planning Quality Assurance activities to reduce all forms of risk. Collaborating with the project team to develop schedules, estimates, forecasts, and budgets for quality activities
• Applying project quality procedures and plans and ensuring appropriate implementation and compliance from the project team
• Certifying effective internal controls system (project, supply, site) is in place to verify that processes continue to meet customer and stakeholder requirements, validating that control plans are applied and effective in mitigating prioritized risks
• Performing audits on project delivery and ensuring the use of Quality data analytics in all aspects of the operation to identify risks, failures and nonconformances within the local business, its suppliers and customers. Ensuring that appropriate corrective and preventive actions are taken, and solutions are managed to closure

Your background

• Ideally a university degree, preferably in engineering or quality management
• Preferably 5 years of experience in projects, engineering, or quality-related roles
• Ability to build, maintain, and influence effective working relationships within a large and complex organization
• Strong communication skills, results-oriented mindset, and openness to new approaches and opportunities
• A passion for identifying problems and their root causes; Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt/Green Belt knowledge is an advantage
• Fluent German and advanced English skills, any other language is a plus
• Willingness to travel to our office and project locations (approx. 10% of the time)

More About Us

• Opportunity to help shape and contribute to a growing work and market environment
• Attractive salary based on the IG Metall collective agreement for Baden-Württemberg, including 30 vacation days, special payments, additional benefits, vacation and Christmas bonuses, as well as a 35-hour work week
• Close support and guidance during the onboarding period
• Pension-related benefits and employer-funded occupational retirement provision
• Holiday home for children and childcare subsidy
• Access to numerous fitness studios throughout Germany with more than 7,500 partner locations through our EGYM Wellpass for your workouts
• Numerous exciting career development and further training opportunities within Hitachi Energy

Publication date : 2026-08-18