Project Quality Leader
West Mifflin, PA - USA
Job Summary
At Alstom we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains metros monorails and trams to turnkey systems services infrastructure signalling and digital mobility we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day 80000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Could you be the full-time onsite Project Quality Leader in West Mifflin PA US (Pittsburgh area) were looking for
Your future role
Take on a new challenge and apply your quality assurance and project management expertise in a new cutting-edge your role you will be responsible for supporting the project team in our efforts to ensure the project safety and drive quality assurance by coordinating all quality and safety activities throughout the project. You will be an integral member of a core team managing various rolling stock projects. You will be involved in everything from direct customer communications to internal collaboration with project management and engineering teams ultimately ensuring we are on track to meet customer requirements.
Well look to you for:
- Acting as the interface between the customer quality and safety teams.
- Establishing Project Quality plans and ensuring the proper application during contract execution in accordance to the contract requirements and to Alstom processes.
- Supporting the project teams and the PM to prepare gate reviews & follow up related action plans.
- Reporting quality and safety alerts and managing non-conformities and Safety issues.
- Facilitating problem solving during project execution phase to reduce the costs of non-quality (8D lessons learned and standards evolution).
- Improving the efficiency of quality teams to reduce the function costs.
- Providing support for progress periodic reporting through quality indicators and identify improvement opportunities.
All about you
You will bring exceptional collaboration and communication skills along with a well-developed understanding of standard quality tools (ISO9001 IRIS CMMI ECM). Your operations and document management experience will also be beneficial. Your success will be determined by your ability to ensure that the customer requirements are respected and the team has full understanding of the work that needs to be completed. You will have a measurable impact ensuring your projects are proceeding properly from gate to gate.
We value passion and attitude over experience. Thats why we dont expect you to have every single skill. Instead weve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:
- Degree in Engineering Quality Management or a related field
- Minimum 5 years of experience in project management within quality operations in an industrial or manufacturing environment
- Experience with structured problem-solving tools (Lean Six Sigma 8D or similar)
- Knowledge of standard quality tools such as ISO9001 IRIS CMMI ECM
- Familiarity with customer communication and collaboration in a project environment
- Verbal and written fluency in English
- Process-oriented mindset
- Ability to manage non-conformities and safety issues effectively
- Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on reducing costs of non-quality
- Knowledge of railway industry would be an asset.
Things youll enjoy
Join us on a life-long transformative journey the rail industry is here to stay so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.
Youll also:
- Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
- Progress towards becoming a key leader in quality and safety management within the railway industry
- Utilise our inclusive innovation-driven and collaborative working environment
- Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life medical 401k).
You dont need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family youll be proud. If youre up for the challenge wed love to hear from you!
Important to note
As a global business were an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. Were committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.
About Company
Leading the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, Alstom develops and markets integrated systems that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation.