Power Transmission Business Line Quality Leader

Role overview Set and lead the global quality strategy for a power transmission portfolio spanning product development, sourcing, manufacturing, project delivery, commissioning, and service. The role leads a central quality team and guides quality leaders across product lines, factories, projects, and regions, with accountability for customer satisfaction, defect prevention, and measurable improvement in product and process performance. It also represents the business with senior customer leaders during audits, major events, and escalated quality issues.

Responsibilities - Establish global quality priorities, governance, standards, and operating practices across the business. - Own performance measures such as first-pass yield, cost of poor quality, customer escapes, complaint closure, audit results, and quality framework maturity. - Coach quality professionals across a global matrix and build consistent capabilities across sites and product lines. - Use independent approval and stop authority when product, process, project, or customer risks are not adequately controlled. - Lead major customer complaints and root cause investigations, ensuring timely containment, clear communication, and lasting corrective actions. - Drive lessons learned and structured problem solving, incorporating findings into designs, standards, risk reviews, and process controls. - Advance digital traceability, analytics, and AI-supported methods to detect risks earlier and strengthen prevention. - Guide quality system integration and transformation, including alignment with international standards.

Requirements - Significant experience leading quality in engineering, manufacturing, or operations, including global or multi-site responsibilities. - Track record of leading complex quality organizations through functional leadership and influence across a matrix. - Experience managing major customer complaints, executive-level communication, root cause analysis, and corrective action programs. - Strong knowledge of quality methods and controls, including FMEA, APQP, control plans, MSA, SPC, process capability, and ISO 9001. - Ability to challenge senior leaders, make independent decisions, and stop work or progression when serious risks remain uncontrolled. - Customer-focused communication and collaboration skills, with the credibility to engage executives and technical teams. - Fluent English; additional languages are an advantage.

Nice to have - Experience with high-voltage or grid equipment, engineered-to-order products, and project execution through field service. - Background in digital quality systems, analytics, automation, or AI; quality system transformation; new product introduction; or quality-related capital investment.

Benefits and work setup Remote role. Relocation assistance is not provided.