Project Quality Leader | GE Vernova

Hydropower Foundation, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) with company match

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Job summary

GE Vernova, a global energy company, seeks a Project Quality Leader for its North American Hydroelectric entity to champion quality management within project teams and ensure compliance with GE Vernova standards and contractual commitments.

The role requires an engineering degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience, strong knowledge of quality management tools, and the ability to travel within Canada and North America. Fluency in English is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in engineering with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Good knowledge of quality management principles and tools.
• Relevant experience in project management.
• Experience in customer relationship management.
• Fluent in English.
• Ability to travel occasionally within Canada and North America.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and provide contract requirements related to quality to the project team and support function kickoff meetings to ensure that all contract-specific requirements are conveyed to all stakeholders.
• Consolidate lessons learned from previous projects to make them actionable to prevent problems. Define with the project director the quality assurance strategy and identification of the project's risks.
• Produce the project quality plan and inspection and test plans in collaboration with the other functions. Communicate and ensure the application by the members of the project team.
• Prepare and coordinate quality inspections with the customer and supply chain in accordance with the inspection and testing plan.
• Manage the preparation and delivery of the quality databooks for the components before delivery, ensuring compliance with the client's requirements.
• Periodically monitor the performance of project processes (non-quality costs, product non-conformities, on-time delivery, customer satisfaction).
• Coordinate customer satisfaction surveys ensuring that we receive periodic responses from the customer and process them accordingly.
• Manage non-conformity reports.
• Support the Project Director for the analysis and management of cost of non-quality, the associated claims process, the associated curative and containment, corrective and preventive actions.
• Support the site team in the preparation of quality documentation and ensure that quality control is done in accordance with the client's requirements.

Skills

Quality management

Project management

Customer relationships

Fluent English

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Job Description Summary

We are looking for a Project Quality Leader for GE Vernova's North American Hydroelectric entity. In this role, the Project Quality Leader is the first point of contact and the reference for quality management within a project team. He/she ensures compliance with all requirements of the project management process and GE Vernova standards. He/she promotes quality assurance in all areas of execution and functions and ensures compliance with contractual commitments to our clients.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and provide contract requirements related to quality to the project team and support function kickoff meetings to ensure that all contract-specific requirements are conveyed to all stakeholders.
• Consolidate lessons learned from previous projects to make them actionable to prevent problems. Define with the project director the quality assurance strategy and identification of the project's risks.
• Produce the project quality plan and inspection and test plans in collaboration with the other functions. Communicate and ensure the application by the members of the project team.
• Prepare and coordinate quality inspections with the customer and supply chain in accordance with the inspection and testing plan.
• Manage the preparation and delivery of the quality databooks for the components before delivery, ensuring compliance with the client's requirements.
• Periodically monitor the performance of project processes (non-quality costs, product non-conformities, on-time delivery, customer satisfaction)
• Coordinate customer satisfaction surveys ensuring that we receive periodic responses from the customer and process them accordingly.
• Manage non-conformity reports.
• Support the Project Director for the analysis and management of cost of non-quality, the associated claims process, the associated curative and containment, corrective and preventive actions.
• Support the site team in the preparation of quality documentation and ensure that quality control is done in accordance with the client's requirements.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in engineering with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Good knowledge of quality management principles and tools
• Relevant experience in project management.
• Experience in customer relationship management.
• Fluent in English
• Ability to travel occasionally within Canada and North America.

Desired Qualifications/Characteristics:

• Experience in the hydropower industry.
• Holder of a professional engineering license
• Fluent in French
• Project Management Certification
• Leadership, proactivity, sense of urgency, autonomy; ability to interact with functions.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills; Strong communication skills.
• Manage multitasking in a multicultural and global environment.
• A mindset of continuous improvement.

GE Vernova

GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.

GE Vernova’s mission is embedded in its name – it retains its legacy, “GE,” as an enduring and hard‑earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy. Supported by the Company Purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova will help deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business produces advanced technologies that harness the power of water to help deliver reliable power to some of the world’s largest economies and remote communities.

Learn more; www.gevernova.com and Linkedin.com

Additional Information

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Remote - This is a remote position

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $87,000.00 and $145,000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off. GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.