Senior Quality Specialist

About the role

As the Senior Quality Specialist, you will support the deployment of quality strategy at a global organizational level, including quality culture, systems, tools, and competent teams with the aim to achieve and exceed customer expectations, while ensuring sustainable operations. Each day, you will assist the organization in achieving the right mix of prevention, continuous improvement, robust root cause analysis, quick response, and sustainable solutions to problems. You will collaborate with necessary functions that impact the quality results to reach the targets for the organizational unit and aim for world-class performance.

While this is a remote position, successful candidates will be in the Mebane, NC area. This role contributes to the Electrification Distribution Solutions division in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Participate in defining and implementing short, medium, and long-term strategy, activities, and planning to develop the quality management system, based on identified risks and opportunities, in collaboration with the Quality function.
• Perform audits and/or ensure audits are performed to assess compliance with the defined system.
• Promote the vision of zero defect and establish mechanisms to ensure that requirements from ABB, customers, and stakeholders are fulfilled, focusing on prevention rather than only control.
• Act as a process owner for defined quality-related processes, systems, or tools, including defining and documenting plans, implementing and communicating actions, supervising and controlling progress, and driving continuous process improvement.

Requirements

• BS in Engineering or equivalent experience (MBA is a plus).
• 10+ years of Quality Management Experience, including auditing, writing/maintaining a QMS, supervision of testers and inspectors, and root cause analysis.
• Certified Lead Quality Auditor for, at minimum, ISO 9001:2015.
• Expert in ISO 9001:2015 and upcoming 2026 revision.
• Demonstrated leadership in driving change, leading cross-functional training and meetings, and leveraging strong analytical, planning, communication, and persuasive skills to achieve business objectives.
• Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, technologies, and measures with emphasis on root cause and failure resolution for complex technical issues.
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification preferred.
• Ability to travel approximately 25% as needed.

About the company

ABB’s Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection, and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry, and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

Benefits

• Health, Life & Disability
  • Choice between two medical plan options: a PPO plan (Copay Plan) or a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account).
  • Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus.
  • Vision benefit.
  • Company-paid life insurance (2X base pay).
  • Company-paid AD&D (1X base pay).
  • Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee-paid up to maximums.
  • Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – company-paid.
  • Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – company-paid, with the ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
  • Supplemental benefits – 100% employee-paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance).
  • Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation, virtual health, and infertility/adoption.
  • Employee discount program.
• Retirement
  • 401k Savings Plan with company contributions.
  • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP).
• Time off
  • 11 paid holidays.
  • Vacation provided based on years of service for hourly and non-exempt positions; salaried exempt positions receive vacation under a permissive time-away policy.