Quality Manager (Projects) - Railway Infrastructure

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Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited (STSPL) is the Indian subsidiary of German multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate Siemens that focuses on IT and management services. The subsidiary is split into four units: Corporate Technology India, Siemens Corporate Finance and Controlling, Global Shared Services, and Siemens Management Consulting. Located in Electronic City in Bangalore, it has over 5000 employees.

We are looking for a Quality Manager in Projects (QMiP).

Meeting the need for smart-mobility solutions

The mission of the QMiP is to act as a domain expert and support the Project Manager as a partner by planning, supervising, ensuring and reporting of appropriate activities with regards to failure prevention and effective process (pro-active and re-active). The QMiP will act as a catalyst for continuous improvement in all PM @Siemens project phases, e.g. by communicating lessons learned from other projects to their team as well as documenting own lessons learned for other projects and process improvement. Of particular importance is the authority to intervene at any stage in the project, in case of non-conformance in delivery and project results or any jeopardization of the project results, i.e. indication of incorrect situations and escalation. The QMiP acts as a member of the core project team and reports the quality status to the Project Manager. In functional matters, to maintain independence, the QMiP also reports to their QM line superior.

You’ll make a difference by:

• Leads and/or coordinates the entire project quality team (internal/ external) of the assigned organization unit(s).
• Ensures multi-functional partnership with Procurement, Logistics, R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Service and relevant suppliers to achieve quality business goals.
• Adapts and provides a project-specific management system including a project documentation, regulations, methods and IT tools, following a risk-based approach.
• Ensures professional non-conformance (NC) management.
• Coaches project team members in agile/lean methods or even acts as a SCRUM master in agile projects.
• Ensures the implementation of quality improvement methods and improve process performance management (e.g. 8D, RCA, FMEA).
• Facilitate / guide team for root cause analysis of Customer complaint/ major NCC
• Selects innovative digital solutions to improve project quality
• Drives lessons learned across projects.
• Ensures the implementation and improvement of an project quality reporting as integrated part of project reporting.
• Contribute to project planning to ensure that project-specific, quality-relevant requirements are considered starting with sales phase.
• Initiates trainings for project employees with regards to quality (e.g. methods and processes).
• Develops, controls and ensures the implementation of a quality plans (incl. quality assurance measures such as review / test / validation / ...) for the project derived from existing QM system agreed upon with the own organization, customer, partners and suppliers.
• Prepare/review inspection and test plan for project supply in co-ordination with supplier/engineering as per relevant national/international standards.
• Ensure application of quality requirements associated with safety management as per EN50126, EN50128, EN50129.
• Co-ordinate with site team for rigor application of QMS standard ISO9001:2015
• Lead the project site team for certification of ISO 9001:2015 QMS standard as and when required.
• Actively perform/face an internal/external audit within organization and project
• Ensure project team is achieving the customer satisfaction by regularly making sure customer feedback as per organization guidelines
• Perform/co-ordinate for FAI/FAT/Type test/On-site test for assigned projects.
• Lead customer discussion related to quality aspect of product/supply in Project team.
• Effective monitoring and control of V-cycle during project life cycle management.
• Plan, perform and co-ordinate for project milestone management and ensure required critical issue in case of project matrices are not adhering to organization/project strategy.
• Review/inspection of project documents for alignment of quality processes during project life cycle management.

We don’t need hard workers, just superminds

• You have bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics/ Electronics and communication engineering and equivalent.
• 5-7 years of proven experience as Quality engineer/ Quality manager for railway signaling / Electrification/ Communication / turnkey system contract.
• You are fluent in English. Knowledge of German language will be advantage
• You are ready to relocate anywhere in India
• Knowledge of Quality standards ISO 9001, IRIS 22163 and QMS terminologies.
• Knowledge of Railway systems like Signalling /Electrification / Communication
• Experience in application of Quality tools, methods for RCA, Improvement
• Experience in carrying Audits, Internal auditor/Lead auditor preferable
• Experience of working in Project environment with cross country teams.
• Proactive and Improvement oriented growth mindset with self-motivated demeanor Experience with various analytical tools (Microsoft Power BI, Tableau) in a professional environment
• You have an interest in working with different tools to implement Business-specific data and documentation.
• You have experience in reading and understanding customer requirements.
• You are willing to work as a team member in sophisticated international projects/Business environment.
• Basic knowledge of workload management process and related terminology

Make your mark in our exciting world at Siemens.

This role is based in Pune and is an Individual contributor role. You might be required to visit other locations within India and outside. In return, you'll get the chance to work with teams impacting - and the shape of things to come. We're Siemens. A collection of over 379,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we encourage applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Bring your curiosity and inspiration and help us shape tomorrow.

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