Projects Global Quality Leader

The QA/QC Lead for Projects is the functional quality leader for the project organization. The role ensures that project execution has robust Quality Control in place to protect the customer while systematically building Quality Assurance capability to prevent recurrence and improve execution quality over time.

This role acts as the catcher for the project function translating central QMS standards into practical execution discipline within projects. The role owns the quality issue management process within the project function drives data-based problem solving and escalates high-impact issues into the formal RCA process based on Customer Impact Number (CIN).
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This role functionally reports to Global Quality and maintains a strong dotted-line relationship with the Global Projects Manager as part of the Project Management team. The position works closely with the Central QMS team the global RCA function and cross-functional partners across engineering supply chain manufacturing and service to drive quality and project execution objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Build and maintain QC in project execution

• Ensure standard quality controls are defined and implemented across project execution phases.
• Confirm that project teams have clear inspection verification handover and documentation requirements.
• Establish practical controls to prevent customers from being exposed to known quality constraints
• Drive containment actions for active quality issues in ongoing projects
• Verify that project quality risks are identified tracked and actively managed

2. Develop QA capability in the project organization

• Strengthen process adherence and standard work and quality planning across the full project lifecycle.
• Ensure lessons learned recurring issues and RCA outputs are translated into project ways of working.
• Drive preventive actions into planning execution reviews and project closeout
• Improve the quality maturity of the project organization by moving from reactive issue handling toward preventive management

3. Own project quality issue management

• Collect and consolidate all quality issues arising within the project function
• Maintain visibility of open issues containment actions due dates and owners
• Pareto project quality issues by frequency severity recurrence and customer consequence
• Calculate and maintain Customer Impact Number (CIN) for project-related quality issues
• Escalate issues with high CIN into official WIND RCA process
• Ensure lower-CIN issues are addressed effectively within the project function

4. Drive problem solving and RCA discipline

• Ensure adequate problem-solving capability exists across the project organization
• Coach teams in structured problem solving including data collection cause validation containment corrective action and prevention
• Support and challenge teams on 8D/5Y quality and closure effectiveness
• Partner with the global RCA function to ensure major issues have clear ownership timing and progress
• Verify that corrective and preventive actions are implemented and sustained

5. Link project quality to QMS and daily management

• Ensure central QMS standards are understood and applied within the project function
• Provide feedback to QMS on process gaps unclear requirements and recurring failures
• Help translate mature RCA learnings into updates to standard work controls checklists and governance
• Establish relevant daily weekly and monthly quality management routines and KPI follow-up for projects
• Use leading indicators not only lagging indicators to monitor project quality health

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position only:

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on September 03 2026.

Available benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program providing 24/7 confidential assessment counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity Executive Services. Other benefits include tuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability benefits life insurance 12 paid holidays and permissive time off and the Restoration Plan a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits.

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