Quality Excellence Manager

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for coordinating our quality management system and processes and managing a continuous improvement culture, thereby minimizing risk during growth and ensuring a standardized way of planning, executing, and operating across the business value chain.

Welcome to QHSE Region Americas
You’ll be part of the QHSE Region Americas Business Excellence team where you, together with your colleagues, will ensure QHSE processes are integrated into our Quality Management framework and are appropriately represented in our QHSE Management System. You will coordinate a culture of quality excellence (systems, processes, behaviours, and accountability) by ensuring that Quality processes are aligned with other areas of Ørsted and ensuring that affected personnel and stakeholders are educated on the processes and held accountable to fulfil them. As a team, we foster a QHSE culture of continuous improvement supporting our operations in the Region Americas.

You’ll play an important role in:

• acting as a subject matter expert in quality matters

• driving a culture of quality excellence (systems, processes, behaviours, and accountability) through Region Americas
• ensuring that quality process ownership and culture are embedded throughout development, construction, and operations in the region
• Integrating with the Project Quality Management team and providing support to reduce project and operational quality risks to as low as reasonably practicable
• monitoring and assessing specific KPIs for Quality performance against targets and carrying out process optimization that creates measurable value.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have a bachelor’s degree, or higher, in a relevant field such as Quality, Engineering, or a related discipline
• have extensive proven experience in the field of Quality Assurance, from relevant fields of industry such as manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, offshore, or energy industries
• have strong management skills and experience in implementing corporate Quality systems
• have strong management skills and experience in implementing corporate Quality systems
• are experienced in managing and driving continuous improvement.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [email protected].

Please note that you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll need to facilitate quality workshops, process improvement, and training to employees within the Americas region.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job
Application deadline:
January 24, 2025

Location:
Boston, US Houston, US Austin, US Chicago, US Washington DC, US New York City, US Newark, NJ, US, 070102 Providence, US

Field of work:
QHSE

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
Full-time

Workplace:
Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.