Project Quality Engineer

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Job Summary

Responsible for ensuring project quality excellence throughout the project lifecycle by leading quality management, assurance, and control activities, driving compliance with customer and Hitachi Energy standards, managing quality performance, and supporting successful project delivery and customer satisfaction.

How you'll make an impact

• Lead the implementation and maintenance of the Project Quality Management System (QMS), including Project Quality Plans and project-specific quality documentation.

• Participate in project kick-off, stage gate, and close-out reviews, ensuring quality requirements, lessons learned, and mitigation actions are effectively managed.

• Act as the primary customer interface for project quality matters, addressing quality issues and ensuring contractual compliance.

• Drive a strong quality culture, promoting quality assurance, quality control, continuous improvement, and best practices across project teams.

• Plan, coordinate, and monitor project quality audits in line with customer and Hitachi Energy requirements.

• Manage and report key quality performance indicators (KPIs), including NCRs, CCRPs, COPQ, customer satisfaction metrics, and lessons learned.

• Ensure effective non-conformance management, supporting timely resolution of NCRs and adherence to quality processes and procedures.

• Oversee site quality activities, including personnel training, document validation, subcontractor quality alignment, and implementation of Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs).

• Verify quality compliance throughout construction, installation, commissioning, and project handover, ensuring contractual documentation and customer deliverables are completed successfully.

Your background

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction project-based environment within large and complex organizations; experience in the power, energy, renewable, or data center sectors is preferred, with 10 years of experience considered an advantage.

• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 standards; lead auditor certification is preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree as a minimum requirement; an engineering or scientific master’s degree is preferred.

• Good understanding of project management principles, including risk management.

• Experience with Project Quality Plans, Master Test Plans, Inspection and Test Plans, inspections, test procedures, punch lists, mechanical completion, lessons learned, COPQ, and customer feedback or T-NPS processes.

• Good knowledge of quality and problem-solving methodologies, including 8D, RCA, PDCA, 5 Why analysis, Lean Six Sigma, FMEA, and related tools.

• Ability to read and understand technical drawings is preferred.

• Excellent written and spoken English skills; additional language capability is an advantage.

• Knowledge of Salesforce, customer feedback systems, and Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Accessibility and reasonable accommodation

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Use of Al and automated tools in recruitment

As part of our recruitment process, Hitachi Energy uses digital and automated tools, including Al-supported solutions, to assist with activities such as application screening, job matching, and interview scheduling. These tools are designed to support our recruiters and do not replace human decision-making. Candidate data is processed in accordance with applicable data protection and employment laws as well asHitachi's Global Data Privacy Notice.

Background Screening and Security Checks

As part of the hiring process, Hitachi Energy conducts pre-employment background checks that may include verification of employment history, education, criminal records, and other relevant information, in accordance with applicable laws.

For certain roles-particularly those involving access to sensitive information, financial responsibilities, client data, regulated environments, or security-sensitive functions-additional or more comprehensive background or security screenings may be required. These may include, but are not limited to, enhanced criminal history checks, credit history reviews (where legally permissible), sanctions screening, or other due diligence measures aligned with the responsibilities of the position.

The scope and depth of any background or security review will be determined based on the nature of the role and business necessity, and will always be conducted in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Candidates will be notified and, where required, asked to provide consent prior to the initiation of any such checks.