PGTR Hub GC Quality Manager

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy Transformer Business Unit in Greater China operates across 55 cities, employs over 1,900 staff, and manages 5 transformer manufacturing plants. More than 90% of its sales come from locally manufactured products. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of Transformers Products, Solutions and Services. Transformers are essential in all electricity-related fields and applications, including power generation, transmission and distribution, oil, chemical and gas, industrial manufacturing, semiconductor and data centers, as well as building and transportation sectors.

Nearly half of our white-collar workforce comprises employees in engineering and scientific fields. Internally, we have targeted talent development programs for employees at different stages of their career development to build skills and competencies, foster training, support people to own career development, scale up organization for growth and execution.

How you'll make an impact

1. You will continuously assess the overall Quality Management System, Quality Plan and Quality Organization to determine priorities for quality improvement and will establish the key improvement priorities, and using a strategy deployment approach, develop and execute a cross-functional, strategic action plan across the Hub to drive improvement.

2. You will identify the leading sources of customer dissatisfaction that are common in the factories within the Hub. Determine the underlying causes and develop/execute strategies to eliminate those causes and determine the true, systemic root causes of internal failure and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ). Execute a strategy consisting of well-planned and executed preventive actions that reduces COPQ and other forms of waste. Drive improvements in process quality, production efficiency, and the elimination of the factors that drive variability and unforeseen disruptions.

3. You will drive a strategy that incorporates standard work, effective training, and recurring process audits to ensure process discipline at all operating units and establish and maintain appropriate KPIs that provide objective evidence of improvement.

4. You will collaborate with the Transformer Business Unit Global Head of Quality and the Global Product Group to ensure execution of global quality initiatives within Hub GCN as well as compliance to global standards and participate as an active member of the Global Quality Council and work with other Hub/Region Quality Leaders to share best practices.

5. You will ensure the deployment of effective Quality Management System standards and Quality Engineering methods such as Change Control, Nonconformance Handling, FMEAs, SPC, etc., also do work cross functionally with other functional leaders to drive the proper quality techniques in all phases of the value chain, including tenders and proposals, project management, design, supply chain, operations, and service.

6. You will participate in training and coaching of local teams in the standard quality improvement approach and quality management standard requirements to develop organizational capability.

7. You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

8. Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

1. You hold a bachelor's in BS or BA Degree in Engineering or related field.

2. Required with 10+ years of professional experience leading a Quality Organization, including multi-site Quality Management.

3. Experience with the execution of continuous improvement methodology such as Operational Excellence, Lean Manufacturing, Strategy Deployment, etc.

4. Requires the ability to independently resolve complex problems.

5. Requires ability to manage a skilled and diverse staff, communicate effectively, represent the organization, act decisively and influence decisions of senior managers and customers.

6. Requires foresight to anticipate problems and recognize opportunities for cost-effectively improving operations.

More about us
We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefit programs to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us - in work and out. For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits (subject to the respective plan rules) :