Power Transmission Quality Leader

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Belgium, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement the global quality strategy, priorities, and governance for the Power Transmission Business Line.

• Foster profitable growth by ensuring defect-free delivery as a prerequisite for customer trust, repeat business, and market expansion.

• Oversee quality performance metrics, including First Pass Yield, Cost of Poor Quality, customer escapes, complaint resolution, customer satisfaction, audit results, and the maturity of the Zero-Defect Framework.

• Enhance First Pass Yield and minimize the Cost of Poor Quality.

• Propel the Zero-Defect Framework towards Level 4 through strategic action plans, standardized work processes, capability development, and progress assessments.

• Integrate Product Line and Factory Quality Management Systems into the Power Transmission Business Management System and lead the transition to ISO 9001:2026 and other international standards.

• Provide functional leadership and mentorship to quality professionals and leaders across product lines, factories, projects, and regions.

• Exercise independent Quality approval and mandatory halt authority when risks are inadequately managed.

• Establish an organization and network that empowers employees to halt high-risk business decisions.

• Lead intricate global customer complaints and root cause investigations; ensure containment measures, customer communication, validated root causes, and corrective actions are in place.

• Represent the Power Transmission division with customer executives and CEOs during audits, significant events, new product launches, and crisis situations.

• Manage escalations to GE Vernova senior leadership and facilitate resolutions.

• Maintain frameworks for lessons learned and integrate insights into risk assessments, standards, designs, and process controls.

• Drive problem-solving initiatives using methodologies such as 8D, 5 Whys, Ishikawa diagrams, and fault-tree analysis.

• Transform reactive quality management into a predictive, data-driven approach utilizing Quality Suite 2.0, digital traceability, analytics, and AI.

• Oversee quality-related CAPEX projects focused on critical-to-quality characteristics.

• Shape quality governance across commercial, engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, project execution, installation, commissioning, and service functions.

• Build cross-functional teams to address quality challenges and implement improvement strategies.

• Represent Power Transmission in the Electrification and GE Vernova Quality Council.

⛳️ Requirements

• A university degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Management, or a similar technical discipline.

• Experience in quality, engineering, manufacturing, or operations, including leadership roles in global, multi-product, or multi-site initiatives.

• Proven track record in leading a global quality function or a complex matrix quality organization with significant functional leadership beyond direct reports.

• Demonstrated experience managing major customer complaints, enterprise quality incidents, executive-level customer communications, structured root cause analysis, and corrective action programs.

• Strong understanding of Design FMEA, Process FMEA, APQP, Control Plans, Reaction Plans, MSA, SPC, process capability, CTQ management, and ISO 9001 standards.

• Experience with digital quality systems, data analytics, automation, or AI applications across multiple businesses or locations.

• Experience in overseeing Quality Management System transformations, new product introductions, and quality-related capital investments.

• Proficiency in English; additional languages are a plus.

• Experience with high-voltage or grid equipment, engineered-to-order products, project execution, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and field service is highly preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No