Quality Leader

Job Description

The Quality Leader provides strategic and operational leadership for quality across three plant sites: Parsippany, NJ; Allentown, PA; and Szazhalombatta, Hungary. This role is accountable for quality assurance, quality control, customer issue resolution, audit readiness, corrective and preventive action effectiveness, and consistent execution of GE Vernova quality requirements across the network.

This leader will partner closely with the General Manager and cross-functional leaders to identify risks early, drive disciplined problem solving, and ensure quality performance supports safety, delivery, cost, compliance, and customer commitments.

What Impact You Will Make

• Help advance GE Vernova’s quality strategy by strengthening daily management, Built-in Quality, standard work, read across, and relentless problem solving across the supported sites.
• Create the operating discipline needed to deliver right-first-time performance.
• Reduce defects, quality escapes, customer complaints, audit findings, rework, and cost of poor quality.
• Ensure rapid containment, disciplined root cause analysis, and effective corrective and preventive actions for significant quality issues.
• Strengthen NCR, MRB, audit, CAPA, customer complaint, Stop Work, and quality review processes across the network.
• Advance Built-in Quality, standard work, inspection discipline, traceability, control plans, documentation, and best-practice read across.
• Prepare for and lead internal, customer, regulatory, and certification audit readiness activities; ensure timely and effective closure of findings.
• Use quality data, leading indicators, and trend analysis to escalate risks, focus resources, and drive measurable improvement.
• Be visible on the shop floor and coach teams to translate quality requirements into practical daily behaviors.
• Represent quality in customer-facing discussions, containment reviews, escalation events, and executive operating reviews.
• Support initiatives that improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and customer experience across the network.

What You Will Do

• Lead the quality strategy, daily management rhythm, and execution discipline across the supported plant sites.
• Develop and coach a team of quality professionals while building accountability, capability, and succession strength.
• Partner with plant, value stream, and business leaders to identify quality risks, prioritize actions, and remove barriers to execution.
• Drive reduction of customer escapes, defects, rework, scrap, repeat nonconformances, and cost of poor quality.
• Ensure rapid containment, disciplined root cause analysis, and effective corrective and preventive actions for significant quality issues.
• Strengthen NCR, MRB, audit, CAPA, customer complaint, Stop Work, and quality review processes across the network.
• Advance Built-in Quality, standard work, inspection discipline, traceability, control plans, documentation, and best-practice read across.
• Prepare for and lead internal, customer, regulatory, and certification audit readiness activities; ensure timely and effective closure of findings.
• Use quality data, leading indicators, and trend analysis to escalate risks, focus resources, and drive measurable improvement.
• Be visible on the shop floor and coach teams to translate quality requirements into practical daily behaviors.
• Represent quality in customer-facing discussions, containment reviews, escalation events, and executive operating reviews.
• Support initiatives that improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and customer experience across the network.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering required.
• 12+ years of experience in quality, manufacturing, operations, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading people, cross-functional teams, or matrixed organizations with accountability for business outcomes.
• Strong working knowledge of quality management systems, CAPA, audit management, root cause analysis, and customer complaint resolution.

Eligibility Requirements

• Must be able to work on-site in Parsippany, NJ and maintain regular presence with site teams.
• Ability to travel periodically to supported plant sites, including Allentown, PA and Szazhalombatta, Hungary, based on business needs.
• This role requires use of technical data subject to U.S. Government export restrictions and this posting is only for U.S. Persons (U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, and protected individuals (e.g., certain refugees and asylees)). GE will require proof of status prior to employment.