Project Quality Specialist (f/m/d)

Location: Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Job ID: R0121375

Date Posted: 2026-03-18

Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY GERMANY AG

Profession (Job Category): Quality Management

Job Schedule: Full time

Remote: No

Job Description:

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High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is a key enabler for a carbon-neutral energy system. It is highly efficient for transmitting large amounts of electricity over long distances, integration of renewables and interconnecting grids, opening for new sustainable transmission solutions. By joining the HVDC team in Germany (DEHVDC), you will be contributing to the energy transition in Germany and around the world.

The Opportunity Ensures support to the project management team regarding all quality related issues on projects to support its objective achievement in terms of quality, supplier & subcontractor quality, and customer satisfaction. Leads the implementation, maturity assessment and improvement of all processes along the entire value chain to improve customer satisfaction and increase profitability in a safe working environment across the project.

How you’ll make an impact

• Cooperating with the customer on Project Quality issues and ensuring ownership of actions to resolve it. Enabling and coaching all project team members to evaluate risks, problems and solutions from a quality and customer/stakeholder point of view

• Analyzing transferability of experience between projects as well as planning Quality Assurance activities to reduce all forms of risk. Collaborating with the project team to develop schedules, estimates, forecasts, and budgets for quality activities

• Applying project quality procedures and plans and ensuring appropriate implementation and compliance from the project team

• Certifying effective internal controls system (project, supply, site) is in place to verify that processes continue to meet customer and stakeholder requirements, validating that control plans are applied and effective in mitigating prioritized risks

• Performing audits on project delivery and ensuring the use of Quality data analytics in all aspects of the operation to identify risks, failures and nonconformances within the local business, its suppliers and customers. Ensuring that appropriate corrective and preventive actions are taken, and solutions are managed to closure

Your background

• Ideally a university degree, preferably in engineering or quality management

• Preferably 5 years of experience in projects, engineering, or quality-related roles

• Ability to build, maintain, and influence effective working relationships within a large and complex organization

• Strong communication skills, results-oriented mindset, and openness to new approaches and opportunities

• A passion for identifying problems and their root causes; Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt/Green Belt knowledge is an an advantage

• Fluent German and advanced English skills, any other language is a plus

• Willingness to travel to our office and project locations (approx. 10% of the time)

More about us

• Collective wage agreement from IG Metall (Baden-Württemberg) including special payment

• Enjoy the flexibility to work from home up to 50% of the time

• Flexible working hours (working time accounts)

• Motivated, warm team with young and very experienced colleague

• 30 days vacation

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