[Hiring] Project Quality Leader @GE Vernova

Role Description

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.

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.

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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
• Retirement benefits including the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions.
• Access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.
• Tuition assistance.
• Adoption assistance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Disability benefits.
• Life insurance.
• 12 paid holidays.
• Permissive time off.

Company Description

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’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.