Quality Specialist

ABB; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB Nashik, India, invites applications for a Quality Manager to support deployment of the quality strategy within the local unit. You will work with cross-functional teams to meet customer expectations while sustaining operations and driving preventive actions.

Role requires 5–8 years of quality management experience in electrical infrastructure, with ISO 9001 knowledge and strong problem-solving skills. Travel to supplier facilities and project sites is expected.

Qualifications

• Full-time Electrical Engineering degree required.
• 5–8 years of quality management experience in electrical/power infra projects.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 and quality tools (8D, 5 Why, RCA).
• Willingness to travel to supplier facilities and project sites.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Deploy quality strategy for the local unit and ensure customer-oriented outcomes.
• Lead quality assurance and inspections for electrical equipment and systems.
• Monitor supplier quality performance and conduct audits and FAT/SAT support.
• Drive continuous improvement, root cause analysis, and corrective actions across projects.

Skills

Quality management

Supplier quality

Quality audits

NCR management

Root cause analysis

ISO 9001

8D / 5 Why / RCA

Travel readiness

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

8D

5 Why

RCA

Job description

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

Quality Manager

Your Role And Responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the deployment of the quality strategy for a local organizational unit, including quality culture, systems, tools, and competent teams with the aim to achieve and exceed customer expectations, while ensuring sustainable operations. Each day, you will assist the organization in achieving the right mix of prevention, continuous improvement, robust root cause analysis, quick response, and sustainable solutions to problems. You will also showcase your expertise by collaborating with local functions that impact the quality results to reach the targets for the organizational unit and aim for world-class performance.

This role is contributing to the Electrification business in Distribution Solution division at Nashik, India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Understand and deploy customer-specific quality requirements across projects, ensuring compliance with applicable quality standards and specifications.
• Drive quality assurance and inspections for electrical equipment, including transformers, AIS/GIS switchgear, RMUs, protection relays, battery chargers, battery systems, UPS, control panels, and E-House solutions
• Monitor and improve the quality performance of third-party suppliers and manufacturing partners to ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Conduct supplier audits and factory inspections, and support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) activities.
• Ensure quality compliance during the fabrication and assembly of containerized and E-House solutions. Manage customer complaints, lead root cause analysis, and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce defects and enhance customer satisfaction. Support onsite quality activities and collaborate with project teams throughout project execution and commissioning.

Qualifications For The Role

• Degree in Electrical Engineering (should be full-time)
• Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in quality management within electrical, power distribution, data center, or industrial infrastructure projects.
• Strong technical knowledge of transformers, AIS/GIS/RMU products, protection relays, battery systems, and related power distribution equipment.
• Experience in supplier quality management, quality audits, Non-Conformance Report (NCR) management, and customer complaint resolution
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001, quality tools such as 8D, 5 Why, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), along with applicable IS/IEC standards.
• Willingness to travel to supplier facilities and project sites, with strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

More About Us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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