About the Voith Group
The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has around 20,700 employees, sales of € 4,8 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe.
Voith Hydro is hiring for:
Construction & Commissioning Quality Engineer Sioux Falls, SD
Construction & Commissioning Quality Engineer
Voith Hydro Inc. | North America Construction & Commissioning Quality | Reports to: Head of C&C Quality
Location: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Work schedule will be 6 days/wk, 10 hrs/day (Monday – Saturday)
Reasons you’ll love working here:
- Flexibility with work/life balance.
- Dress for Your Day dress code.
- Great compensation and benefits package within a global engineering and manufacturing organization.
- Climate-neutral footprint worldwide, with work tied directly to renewable hydroelectric infrastructure and sustainable energy.
- Leadership and professional development opportunities through site quality management, audits, root cause analysis, customer witness inspections, and cross-functional project execution.
- Opportunity to directly influence customer acceptance, project turnover, quality performance, site lessons learned, and continuous improvement across construction and commissioning activities.
Summary:
- Lead site quality management for hydroelectric construction, installation, testing, commissioning, customer acceptance, and project closeout activities.
- Ensure quality requirements are implemented and verified at site to support safe, compliant, and reliable project execution.
- Serve as the primary quality interface between Voith site teams, Project Quality, Project Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Quality, subcontractors, vendors, customer inspectors, and site stakeholders.
- Manage site quality documentation, customer submittals, NCRs, corrective actions, inspection readiness, customer witness inspections, quality records, turnover packages, and final acceptance support.
- Promote prevention-based quality by building quality requirements, inspection expectations, acceptance criteria, environmental compliance needs, and lessons learned into site execution processes.
- Support compliance with quality, environmental, health, safety, contractual, regulatory, statutory, and Voith Business Management System requirements.
Responsibilities:
Site quality leadership and planning
- Lead and coordinate site quality activities during construction, installation, testing, commissioning, customer handover, project closure, and turnover.
- Develop, review, maintain, and execute site-specific Quality Plans, Construction & Commissioning Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), inspection checklists, quality schedules, and related documentation requirements.
- Ensure customer, contractual, regulatory, statutory, environmental, and Voith quality requirements are understood, deployed, monitored, and verified during site work.
- Coordinate with Project Quality Managers, site leadership, Field Service, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Quality, HSE, subcontractors, vendors, and customer representatives to align quality expectations.
- Support site kick-off meetings, handover to site teams, handover to commissioning teams, project coordination meetings, site status reviews, customer audit/inspection meetings, and final handover meetings.
Customer submittals, quality records, and turnover documentation
- Manage site quality documentation and ensure inspection records, test reports, field quality records, commissioning records, SAT records, PAC/FAC support records, and turnover deliverables are complete, accurate, traceable, and contract compliant.
- Prepare, review, compile, and submit contract-required documents to the customer, including site quality dockets, quality data books, quality dossiers, inspection reports, test records, NCR documentation, redline support documents, and closeout packages.
- Track document status, customer comments, open actions, revise-and-resubmit items, and approval status through closure.
- Coordinate with Document Control and project stakeholders to ensure required site quality records are available for internal review, customer review, acceptance, and archive.
NCR, corrective action, and risk management
- Initiate, investigate, manage, and close construction and commissioning NCRs, quality findings, deviations, punch-list items, and corrective actions.
- Ensure NCRs are clearly described, supported by objective evidence, properly assigned, dispositioned, approved when required, and followed through to effective closure.
- Lead or support root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action activities with site teams, vendors, subcontractors, Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Quality, customers, and suppliers.
- Monitor site quality risks, NCR trends, overdue actions, recurring issues, and field quality performance; escalate critical issues affecting customer acceptance, schedule, safety, environmental compliance, or project cost.
- Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement actions to reduce rework, prevent recurrence, and strengthen future site execution.
Construction and commissioning inspection management
- Execute and manage C&C ITPs and verify that planned inspections, tests, audits, quality checks, witness points, hold points, and acceptance criteria are completed in accordance with project requirements.
- Coordinate internal and external inspection resources for mechanical, electrical, dimensional, welding, coating, NDE, calibration, commissioning, and functional testing activities where applicable.
- Plan, coordinate, and support customer witness inspections, site inspections, audits, surveillance activities, and quality reviews, including readiness checks, agendas, required resources, acceptance criteria, equipment, calibration status, and supporting records.
- Verify that inspection documentation is reviewed before physical inspection when required so inspection focus can be adjusted based on documentation findings.
- Ensure nonconforming work is not built upon, concealed, released, or handed over until appropriately reviewed, dispositioned, corrected, accepted, or formally transferred.
Vendor, subcontractor, and site supplier quality oversight
- Ensure Voith employees, vendors, subcontractors, and site suppliers uphold applicable quality requirements, site procedures, customer specifications, and accepted work practices.
- Monitor vendor and subcontractor quality performance at site and coordinate resolution of supplier or subcontractor quality issues affecting construction, commissioning, customer acceptance, or turnover.
- Support supplier/subcontractor surveillance, audits, inspection planning, documentation review, and corrective action follow-up when site scope or customer requirements require.
- Coordinate with Supply Chain Quality and Manufacturing Quality when supplier or manufacturing documentation, NCRs, inspection records, shipment release records, or final quality records affect site acceptance.
Requirements:
Education and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, or a related technical discipline preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
- Experience in construction quality, commissioning quality, field service quality, project quality, manufacturing quality, supplier quality, site management, or a comparable technical quality role.
- Experience supporting hydroelectric, power generation, heavy industrial, engineer-to-order, manufacturing, construction, commissioning, or large project-based environments preferred.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with customers, site teams, subcontractors, suppliers, inspectors, project managers, and cross-functional technical stakeholders.
Quality systems, technical knowledge, and compliance
- Working knowledge of Quality Management Systems and ISO 9001 principles; familiarity with ISO 14001 environmental management and ISO 45001 occupational health and safety principles preferred.
- Experience with NCR management, root cause analysis, corrective action, preventive action, effectiveness verification, audit findings, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of Inspection and Test Plans, quality plans, customer witness/hold points, site quality records, commissioning records, test reports, quality dockets, data books, and customer turnover documentation.
- Ability to interpret customer specifications, contracts, drawings, procedures, inspection results, acceptance criteria, statutory/regulatory requirements, and environmental compliance expectations.
- Experience with dimensional inspection, mechanical inspection, electrical testing, NDE, welding, coating, calibration, site installation, commissioning, and/or functional testing is preferred.
Skills and competencies
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and customer-facing skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities, documents, inspections, NCRs, and customer actions simultaneously.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities with a pragmatic, solution-driven, and customer-oriented working style.
- Practical knowledge of Microsoft Office, SharePoint, SAP, quality management systems, document management systems, databases, tracking tools, and digital quality tools preferred.
- Auditing qualification or experience is preferred, including ISO 9001, ISO 19011, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, supplier/process audits, site audits, or equivalent audit training.
- Willingness and ability to travel frequently to construction, commissioning, manufacturing, supplier, and customer sites as business needs require.
Don’t meet every single requirement but think you would be a good fit for our team? We encourage you to apply – your unique skills may be just what we need for this or other roles!
Voith US Inc. is an EEO/AA/VEVRAA compliant Federal Contractor and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry including people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), Veterans, people of any age or family status. We embrace the competitive advantage that diversity brings and we strive to create a working environment that is inclusive of thought and talent.
