The opportunity

Hitachi Energy, High Voltage Products, is renowned worldwide as a specialist for power transmission and distribution. As a Local Product Group of High Voltage Products, the High Current Systems unit is responsible for the development, sales, manufacturing, and service of generator circuit-breaker systems.

Join our team in Zürich as our Factory Quality Leader. You will be driving the entire quality function for our GIS operating unit and will be a part of the business management team. Using your management skills and experience to establish and maintain our Quality Culture, by assuring and controlling quality with systems, tools and teams to meet customer expectations while ensuring sustainable operations, you will contribute to the success of our operating unit. You will be leading and organizing the team actively to prevent quality issues and to sustainably solve existing quality challenges.

How you’ll make an impact

• Develop and implement strategic direction for our four pillars of quality (incoming inspection, production quality control, customer quality, quality management systems), including structured problem resolution

• Act as the final authority to provide disposition of non-conforming material and product shipped to custom-ers and received from suppliers

• Assure compliance with all external and internal regulations, specifications and standard work

• Implement, audit, consistently apply and sustain the local Quality Management System and suggest system improvements

• Focus management on the appropriate metrics and actions based on those metrics across the organization, assuring effective tracking of operational performance

• Report on quality metrics from Unit perspective, analyze (key organizational) quality metrics and perform periodical reviews to evaluate results and establish action plans to close the gaps

• Actively participate in (internal and external) audits and in follow up actions

• Oversee and timely allocate quality resources for Quality Operations and drive the CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) process with all functions involved

• Develop (recruit, train, mentor) quality and related personnel aligned with the LOM. Maintain Succession Plan Influence business bottom line results by quality process improvement. Maintain Quality department budget and control related expenses and investments

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering discipline or related discipline

• More than 10 years of experience in various functions of quality management, program and project management

• More than 3 years leadership experience and talent development

• Ability to travel ~ 20% (domestic and international)

• Experience in quality management, operations, lean manufacturing processes and visual management

• Solid Lean Six Sigma experience

• Fluency in English language, verbally and written

More about us

Our flexible work practices help you optimize personal and business performance while creating an environment where all employees can develop their skills and grow.