Central Europe Regional Quality Operations Lead

GE-Vernova-; Katowice; On-site; PLN 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

The Regional Quality Operations Manager at GE-Vernova oversees the quality operating rhythm and performance across Central Europe portfolios, driving root-cause problem solving and risk prevention. You will collaborate with project leaders, suppliers and site teams to ensure consistent quality standards and proactive improvements.

Applicants should bring strong governance experience, robust data analytics, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders while traveling as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, quality management, operations management or related discipline.
• Significant experience in Quality, project execution, operations or engineering within EPC, infrastructure, energy, industrial or similarly complex project environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing quality governance across multiple projects or portfolios.
• Strong understanding of NCR management, COPQ, RCA, auditing and corrective-action systems.
• Basic knowledge of ISO 9001 and quality management systems.
• Strong analytical capability and experience using operational data to drive decisions.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without relying solely on hierarchical authority.
• Strong communication, facilitation and organizational skills.
• Fluent English; (German or another relevant European language would be advantageous).
• Ability to travel.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the regional Quality operating rhythm, governance model and review structure.
• Support establishing standard quality reviews at function, portfolio and project levels.
• Support maintaining alignment between global, business, regional and project quality priorities.
• Develop & maintain the regional quality performance dashboard and action-based reporting process.
• Consolidate and analyze COPQ, NCRs, customer complaints, audit findings, deviations, concessions and corrective-action performance.
• Support identifying trends, recurring failures and systemic risks across projects and portfolios.
• Provide fact-based insights and recommendations to regional Quality Leader.
• Ensure data quality, common KPI definitions and consistent reporting across portfolios.
• Develop meaningful leading indicators in addition to traditional lagging indicators.
• Solve problems to the root cause, think critically & support building problem-solving capabilities across region.
• Drive Lessons Learned process implementation & ensure significant lessons are read across to relevant projects, tenders (ITO), functions and portfolios.
• Support establishing a clear regional process to connect RCA, 8D, Kaizen, LL, CI and other structured problem-solving activities outcome and align with global quality team.
• Monitor root-cause quality, countermeasure effectiveness and action sustainability.
• Challenge weak problem statement & root-cause analyses and support teams to sustain corrective actions.
• Ensure that problem-solving ownership remains with the responsible business and functional teams through influencing the key stake holders.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize quality processes.
• Reduce manual reporting, duplicate reviews and non-value-adding administrative work.
• Support digital quality dashboards, workflow tools and data analytics.
• Establish standard templates, review criteria and minimum quality requirements.
• Work with global quality teams to improve common tools and systems.
• Build a strong community & relationship across Project Quality Managers, Equipment Quality Managers and Site Quality teams including leadership teams.
• Support competency assessment and development planning for regional quality personnel.
• Promote proactive risk management, prevention and accountability.
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership and a strong commitment to safety, ethics and compliance.

Skills

Quality governance

Stakeholder influence

Data analytics

Problem-solving

Cross-functional work

Project management

Communication

English fluent

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in engineering/quality management

Job description

The Regional Quality Operations Manager at GE-Vernova oversees the quality operating rhythm and performance across Central Europe portfolios, driving root-cause problem solving and risk prevention. You will collaborate with project leaders, suppliers and site teams to ensure consistent quality standards and proactive improvements.

Applicants should bring strong governance experience, robust data analytics, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders while traveling as needed.