Head of Total Quality Management (TQM) RoW (f/m/d)
A Snapshot of Your Day
We are looking for an experienced and accomplished function leader to join our team as the Total Quality Management (TQM) Manager in Grid Technologies Switchgears.
The role drives quality excellence across a global footprint by ensuring consistent product standards, robust processes, reliable delivery, and high customer satisfaction. Through close engagement with operations, it stays connected to critical issues and improvement opportunities while leading initiatives that boost First Pass Yield, reduce Non Conformance Costs, stabilize processes, and strengthen on Time Delivery. The position focuses on defect prevention, enhanced controls, and resolving recurring problems to increase reliability, delivery consistency, and process capability, ultimately elevating factories to top tier quality performance. Success in this role comes from working within a collaborative EQS community that values proactive leadership, cross site alignment, and open sharing of insights and best practices, enabling rapid scaling of quality breakthroughs and strong integration with EHS and Continuous Improvement teams
How You’ll Make an Impact
Building a customer focused quality culture, ensuring feedback drives product, delivery, and service improvements across factories
Directing the Total Quality Approach, defining goals, governance, dashboards, and overseeing FPY, NCC, OTD, capability, and customer satisfaction systems
Enhancing global process controls, leading implementation of control plans, FMEAs, MSA, SPC, audits, and corrective actions to reduce defects
Partnering across Operations, Engineering, EHS, and CI, aligning priorities to improve FPY, NCC, OTD, and process stability
Promoting accountability and continuous improvement, enabling open discussion of risks, lessons learned, and customer impact
Deploying standardized EQS processes and tools, harmonizing workflows, documentation, reporting, and training across all GT SG sites
What You Bring
Technical education with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, industrial engineering, quality engineering, or an equivalent discipline
Several years Extensive quality management in TQM, manufacturing, or industrial environments, ideally within Siemens Energy or Grid Technologies
Proven expertise in Total Quality and EQS deployment, including global training, coaching, and multisite capability building
Strong improvement track record, delivering FPY, OTD, and NCC gains through structured methodologies and solid governance
Advanced quality tool competence, including ISO 9001, APQP/PPAP, FMEA, SPC, MSA, CAPA, audits, and structured problem solving (8D, A3, DMAIC)
Leadership and communication strength in English, enabling cross site influence, stakeholder alignment, training delivery, and effective collaboration in global teams. Knowledge of additional languages is a plus
Travel, as needed (~50%)
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
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
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