Project Quality Specialist (f/m/d)

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Mannheim; Vor Ort; EUR 85.000 - 125.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

IG Metall salary

30 vacation days

Pension benefits

Wellbeing & training

Career development

Zusammenfassung

Hitachi Energy in Mannheim seeks a Project Quality Manager to support the HVDC program, driving end-to-end quality across the value chain and ensuring customer satisfaction.

You will lead QA activities, implement procedures, and collaborate with suppliers and project teams in a safety-focused environment, with travel ~10% to office and project locations.

Qualifikationen

• University degree in engineering or quality management preferred.
• 5 years of experience in projects, engineering, or quality roles.
• Ability to build relationships within a large organization.
• Strong communication, results-oriented, open to new approaches.
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow/Green Belt an advantage.
• Fluent German and advanced English; other languages a plus.
• Willingness to travel to office and project locations (≈10%).

Aufgaben

• Collaborate with the customer on project quality issues and own actions.
• Plan QA activities with project team, developing schedules, estimates, and budgets.
• Apply project quality procedures and ensure compliance.
• Certify internal controls (project, supply, site) and verify mitigation plans.
• Perform quality audits and use data analytics to identify risks and drive corrective actions.

Kenntnisse

Quality management

Project management

Stakeholder mgmt

Lean Six Sigma

German fluency

English proficiency

Ausbildung

Engineering degree

Jobbeschreibung

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

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 implementationand 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 correctiveand preventive actions are taken, and solutions are managed to closure

Your background

• Ideally a university degree, preferably in engineering or qualitymanagement
• Preferably 5 years of experience in projects, engineering, or quality-related roles
• Ability to build, maintain, and influence effective working relationships within a large andcomplexorganization
• Strong communication skills, results-oriented mindset, and openness to new approachesandopportunities
• 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 thetime)

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

Accessibility and reasonable accommodation

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Use of Al and automated tools in recruitment

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Background Screening and Security Checks

As part of the hiring process, Hitachi Energy conducts pre-employment background checks that may include verification of employment history, education, criminal records, and other relevant information, in accordance with applicable laws.

For certain roles—particularly those involving access to sensitive information, financial responsibilities, client data, regulated environments, or security-sensitive functions—additional or more comprehensive background or security screenings may be required. These may include, but are not limited to, enhanced criminal history checks, credit history reviews (where legally permissible), sanctions screening, or other due diligence measures aligned with the responsibilities of the position.

The scope and depth of any background or security review will be determined based on the nature of the role and business necessity, and will always be conducted in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Candidates will be notified and, where required, asked to provide consent prior to the initiation of any such checks.