Quality Lead Engineer

Job Description Summary

Coach, drive and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools across a operational or functional area. Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics.

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work with Controls Quality Leader as Quality Lead Engineer for Controls Engineering organization supporting multiple Gas Power business lines in support of the four Quality Workstreams: Zero Defect Culture, New Product Introduction, Supply Base Quality, and Management of Change. Engineering plays strongly in all four of these workstreams and across the entire lifecycle of our products.
• Support response to front-line customers who feel the pain when we deliver poor quality.
• Drive improvement upstream into our processes across all of Engineering.
• Improve our engineering quality execution but also the broader Gas Power Quality workstreams.
• Drive Quality Excellence into Engineering.
• Support day-to-day Quality Operations for an organization of 1000+ engineers located worldwide.
• Coordinate all quality issue resolution with Controls Engineering Quality Leader.
• Coordinate necessary QMS auditing activities across Controls Engineering to support ISO accreditation, including desk-side audits, quality framework audits, and LRQA.
• Run quality management reviews with Controls leadership.
• Support Controls quality MOR (Monthly Operating Review).
• Partner with broader Corporate, Gas Power, Gas Power Engineering, and Controls quality community to drive a culture of zero-defect culture among the Controls Engineering organization.
• Broaden the application of problem-solving (root cause analysis) and continuous improvement tools in a way that will improve quality, efficiency, capacity, and process reliability.
• Drive the necessary continuous improvement processes including Non-Conformance Report (NCR), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Problem Solving Reports (PSR).
• Maintain and improve daily management of quality through dashboards and queries.
• Enable, support and empower the Controls Engineering resources to identify opportunities and locally act upon to drive quality improvements.
• Celebrate and share Controls Engineering quality lessons learned and recognize success.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience.

• Demonstrates the Vernova Way principles: innovation, customers, lean, one team, and accountable.
• Experience in the power generation industry.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and teach others.
• Practical knowledge of root cause analysis techniques and tools.
• Strong interpersonal, collaborative and responsive skills
• Appropriate experience driving quality improvement, preferably within an engineering organization.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
• Proven to be effective at driving outcomes in a large, globally matrixed organization.
• Comfortable with conflict but leads as a collaborator, facilitator, and strong partner.
• Critical, systems thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities.
• Strong analytical skills; data-driven but decisive despite ambiguity.
• Customer-focused with clear, concise written and oral communications to the appropriate level.