Power Transmission Business Line Quality Leader @ Gevernova

Job Description Summary

The Power Transmission Quality Leader develops and deploys the global quality strategy for the full Power Transmission portfolio. The role covers quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and the Quality Management System across the full business lifecycle, from tendering and product development to sourcing, manufacturing, project execution, installation, commissioning and service.

The role reports to the COO of Power Transmission, leads a central quality team and functionally leads the Product Line Quality Leaders. The Power Transmission Quality Leader collaborates with commercial, engineering, global supply chain, project and service leaders and actively influences all stakeholders towards defect-free products, processes and deliverables.

The role is accountable for a strong quality culture, customer satisfaction, prevention of customer escapes, and continuous improvement of product and process quality. The role owns the Power Transmission quality performance system, including First Pass Yield, Cost of Poor Quality, customer escapes, customer complaint closure and Zero-Defect Framework maturity. Ensuring defect-free deliveries is a key priority for the Power Transmission Quality Leader to increase customer confidence and sustainable growth.

The role represents Power Transmission in front of senior leadership of customers or internally, during major customer events, audits or new-product introductions. The leader also drives the transformation from reactive quality management to predictive, data-based quality with preventive controls, digital traceability, analytics and AI-enabled risk detection.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy the global quality strategy, priorities and governance for Power Transmission Business Line.
• Drive profitable growth of the Power Transmission portfolio by making defect-free delivery a condition for customer confidence, repeat orders and market growth.
• Own Power Transmission quality performance, including First Pass Yield, Cost of Poor Quality, customer escapes, customer complaint closure, customer satisfaction, audit findings and Zero-Defect Framework maturity.
• Improve First Pass Yield and continuously reduce Cost of Poor Quality to protect margin, cash, capacity and on-time delivery.
• Drive the Zero-Defect Framework towards Level 4 through clear action plans, standard work, capability building and regular progress reviews.
• Ensure holistic integration of Product Line and Factory Quality Management Systems into the Power Transmission Business Management System and lead the transition to ISO 9001:2026 and other international standards.
• Functionally lead and coach quality professionals and leaders across product lines, factories, projects and regions. Set common standards, operating rhythms, measures and expectations.
• Exercise independent Quality approval and mandatory stop authority when a product, process, project or customer risk is not adequately controlled.
• Build an organization and network that empowers every employee to stop high-risk business decisions and reinforces the principle that no milestone passes under derogation.
• Lead complex global customer complaints and root cause analyses. Ensure rapid containment, clear customer communication, verified root cause and sustainable corrective action.
• Represent Power Transmission directly with customer executives and CEOs during audits, major events, new-product introductions and crises. Manage events requiring escalation to GE Vernova senior leadership and guide resolution in the best interest of the customer and the business.
• Introduce and maintain a strong framework for lessons learned and share it with product lines, sites, projects, suppliers and external partners. Ensure relevant learning is built into risk analyses, standards, designs and process controls.
• Drive a strong problem-solving culture using structured methods such as 8D, 5 Why, Ishikawa and fault-tree analysis.
• Lead the transformation from reactive quality management to predictive, data-based quality. Deploy Quality Suite 2.0, digital traceability, data analytics and AI to improve prevention, risk detection and decision-making.
• Influence and govern substantial quality-related CAPEX projects to increase control of critical-to-quality characteristics in processing, manufacturing and assembly.
• Shape quality governance across commercial, engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, project execution, installation, commissioning and service while addressing the different risk profiles of products, projects, factories and suppliers.
• Build strong cross-functional teams with technical experts and business leaders to solve quality issues and deliver improvement plans.
• Be the Power Transmission representative in the Electrification and GE Vernova Quality Council.

Required Qualifications

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Management or a comparable technical field.
• Experience in quality, engineering, manufacturing or operations, including leadership of global, multi-product or multi-site activities.
• Proven experience leading a global quality function or a complex matrix quality organization with significant functional leadership beyond direct reports.
• Proven experience leading major customer complaints, enterprise quality events, executive customer communication, structured root cause analysis and corrective action programmes.
• Strong knowledge of Design FMEA, Process FMEA, APQP, Control Plans, Reaction Plans, MSA, SPC, process capability, CTQ management and ISO 9001.
• Experience with high-voltage or grid equipment, engineered-to-order products, project execution, manufacturing, installation, commissioning and field service is strongly preferred.
• Experience with digital quality systems, data analytics, automation or AI applications across multiple businesses or sites.
• Experience governing Quality Management System transformation, new-product introduction and quality-related capital investment.
• Fluent English. Additional languages are an advantage.

Desired Skills and Characteristics

• Strong functional leadership and the ability to influence executives, product-line leaders, site leaders and technical experts across a global matrix organization.
• Independent judgement and the confidence to challenge senior leaders, withhold approval and stop progression when critical quality risks are not controlled.
• Customer-focused, fact-based and decisive during complex quality issues.
• Able to build trust and align cross-functional and global teams around common goals.
• Clear communicator with the confidence and credibility to engage customer executives, CEOs and GE Vernova senior leadership.
• Business-oriented understanding of how quality affects growth, customer retention, margin, cash, backlog conversion, capacity and delivery.
• Proactive, disciplined and focused on prevention, learning and sustainable results.
• Comfortable working across cultures, product lines, sites and functions, and able to lead through influence rather than hierarchy.
• Curious about digitalization and AI, with a practical focus on business and quality outcomes.
• Collaborates openly with peers and functions, shares knowledge and works towards the best outcome for Power Transmission and GE Vernova.
• Provides practical support, coaching and clear direction to product lines, factories and teams so they can meet their commitments and be successful.
• Demonstrates the GE Vernova Values in decisions, collaboration, customer engagement and daily leadership.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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