Global Quality Lead - Data Center & Critical Infra

Volta; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Volta

Competitive salary

Retirement/pension contributions

Comprehensive health, wellbeing and保险

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Volta is building AI factories across Europe and North America, and as Global Quality Lead you will own quality across all projects from vendor quality to site testing. You will build the function from the ground up, set Volta's quality strategy, standards and management system, and lead quality resources embedded in each project team.

You will also drive non-conformance resolution, establish commissioning standards, and build audits and surveillance programs to ensure repeatable delivery across

Qualifications

• Quality leadership on data centre or mission-critical construction programmes.
• Track record running quality at programme or portfolio level across multiple concurrent projects and regions.
• Experience building or running a quality management system, ideally aligned to ISO 9001.
• Deep familiarity with commissioning practice on complex, MEP-heavy facilities.
• Strong vendor quality and factory acceptance for critical equipment such as switchgear, UPS, generators, chillers and CDUs.
• Structured root-cause problem solving and clear, data-led reporting.
• The credibility to hold projects, contractors and suppliers to standard.
• Willingness to travel regularly to sites and factories across Europe and North America.

Responsibilities

• Own Volta's quality strategy, standards and quality management system across all projects, in Europe and North America.
• Build and lead the global quality function, providing functional leadership to the quality resources embedded in each project team.
• Set inspection and test plan standards for every major package – civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and controls.
• Build vendor quality and factory surveillance programmes for critical equipment, working with Procurement on supplier qualification and factory acceptance testing.
• Own non-conformance management and drive root-cause resolution across all of our sites.
• Set the quality standards that underpin commissioning from level 1 through level 5, working with the Commissioning and Handover team on the path to turn-up.
• Run quality audits and assurance reviews across active sites, and hold contractors and partners to standard.
• Embed right-first-time practices and make sure lessons learned on one site carry to the next.
• Report quality performance to the CDO and leadership team, with clear metrics and trends.

Skills

Quality leadership

Data centre experience

Programme management

Root cause analysis

Vendor quality management

Willingness to travel

Job description

Volta is building AI factories across Europe and North America, and as Global Quality Lead you will own quality across all projects from vendor quality to site testing. You will build the function from the ground up, set Volta's quality strategy, standards and management system, and lead quality resources embedded in each project team.

You will also drive non-conformance resolution, establish commissioning standards, and build audits and surveillance programs to ensure repeatable delivery across