Global Quality Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of Volta's quality strategy, standards, and quality management system for all projects in Europe and North America.

• Establish and guide the global quality function, offering functional leadership to quality resources integrated within each project team.

• Develop standards for inspection and testing plans covering civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls packages.

• Create vendor quality and factory surveillance programs for critical equipment.

• Collaborate with Procurement on supplier qualification and factory acceptance testing.

• Manage non-conformance issues and drive root-cause analysis across various sites.

• Define quality standards that support commissioning from level 1 to level 5.

• Partner with the Commissioning and Handover team to facilitate the turn-up process.

• Conduct quality audits and assurance reviews at active sites.

• Ensure contractors and partners meet established standards.

• Instill right-first-time practices and share lessons learned across sites.

• Provide quality performance reports, metrics, and trends to the Chief Delivery Officer and leadership team.

• Collaborate closely with Safety, Design and Engineering, Procurement, Project Controls, regional delivery teams, and DSX Commissioning and Handover.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven leadership in quality for data centre or mission-critical construction programs.

• Essential experience in data centres.

• Demonstrated success in managing quality at the program or portfolio level across multiple concurrent projects and regions.

• Experience in establishing or managing a quality management system from the ground up, ideally in alignment with ISO 9001.

• Extensive knowledge of commissioning practices in complex MEP-heavy facilities.

• Strong background in vendor quality and factory acceptance for critical equipment, including switchgear, UPS, generators, chillers, and CDUs.

• Proficient in structured root-cause problem solving and data-driven reporting.

• Ability to hold projects, contractors, and suppliers accountable to standards.

• Willingness to travel frequently to sites and factories throughout Europe and North America.

• Confirmation of right to work, verification of employment history, and criminal record checks as permitted by local law.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on your contributions here, rather than your previous earnings.

• Equity in Volta, allowing you to participate in the company's long-term success.

• Retirement and pension contributions.

• Comprehensive health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.

• Generous vacation days each year.

• Discretionary bonus.

• Global benefits that vary by country due to local regulations.