
Quality Manager in Projects
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Job overview
The Quality Manager in Projects leads quality management across the project lifecycle, from contract review and tender handover through closeout. The role develops project quality plans, coordinates audits and inspections, manages supplier quality and corrective actions, and advises project leadership on risks and performance. It works across project, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning teams to promote right-first-time quality.
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A Snapshot of Your Day
You’ll start your day reviewing project quality performance, customer requirements, inspections, supplier performance, nonconformances, and key risks. You’ll work closely with Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Construction, and Commissioning teams to align on priorities and upcoming milestones. Throughout the day, you may lead quality gates and inspections, support customer hold or witness points, address supplier quality issues, or drive root-cause and corrective actions. You’ll maintain the Project Quality Plan, communicate quality status and risks, and help ensure lessons learned and right-first-time quality are embedded throughout the project lifecycle.
How You’ll Make an Impact
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Lead project quality management from contract review and tender handover through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, commissioning, and project closeout.
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Develop and maintain a risk-based Project Quality Plan that translates customer, contractual, regulatory, and internal requirements into clear quality controls.
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Advise project leadership on quality risks, cost of poor quality, schedule impacts, resources, preventive actions, and opportunities for improvement.
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Plan and coordinate quality gates, audits, inspections, test plans, hold and witness points, acceptance criteria, and milestone readiness reviews.
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Manage supplier and subcontractor quality, nonconformances, deviations, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and escalation of critical quality issues.
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Monitor quality performance, maintain accurate project records and final documentation, and promote a right-first-time quality culture through coaching and lessons learned.
What You Bring
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Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
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5+ years Quality management experience supporting complex EPC, power transmission and distribution, substation, construction, commissioning, or similar industrial projects .
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Working knowledge of ISO 9001 , project quality planning, auditing, inspections and testing, supplier quality, nonconformance management, and root-cause analysis.
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Ability to interpret contracts, customer specifications, technical standards, drawings, and project documentation and translate requirements into practical quality controls.
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Strong communication, customer orientation, problem-solving, and influencing skills with the ability to work across Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, suppliers, contractors, and site teams.
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Experience with digital quality systems, dashboards, document and configuration control, and performance reporting; certifications such as ASQ CQE/CMQ-OE, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, or Lean Six Sigma are preferred.
Willingness and ability to travel up to 15-20% to project sites, customer locations, factories, and suppliers as required.
Legal authorization to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.
About the Team
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid! The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With +100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Rewards/Benefits
Here are examples of the rewards and benefits Siemens Energy offers:
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Opportunities to work with a global team
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Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
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Medical benefits
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Remote/Flexible work
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Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave
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Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform
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Access to a variety of employee resource groups
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Siemens Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local
law.
How this job compares
Set against the 917 open Quality Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$120–179K/yr494 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Quality Manager jobs in North Carolina and 917 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- Meta4 open
- Graphic Packaging International, LLC2 open
- Siemens Energy (this employer)2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Quality Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (774 postings).
- Education
- 324 of the 917 open Quality Manager jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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