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.
Joins toi à Voith Hydro! Nous sommes présentement à la recherche de talents pour le poste de:
Engineer, Construct. & Commissioning QA
Brossard, QC
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.
- Fluent in French and English to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, both in Quebec and outside of Quebec.
Voith Hydro in Brossard – Why Join Our Team?
- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and travel coverage from Day 1, for you and your family
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and telemedicine services for you and your family
- On-site fitness facility
- Competitive total compensation package and group RRSP with employer contributions
- 13 statutory and floating holidays per year, including paid time off between Christmas and New Year's Day
- Prime location near Quartier DIX30 and the REM transit system
- Summer hours and flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
- Flexible dress code based on your day’s activities
- Social committee events (Oktoberfest, Sugar Shack outing, Food Truck Lunches, and more)
- Work in the renewable energy sector
- Inclusive workplace that values diversity
- Talent development program
- Leadership training and mentoring program
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Scholarship program for the children of our Voith employees
- Clear focus on hydropower, our area of expertise
- Opportunity to contribute to major infrastructure projects across North America
- Voith has operated carbon-neutrally across all its subsidiaries since 2022
- Family-owned company with strong financial stability
- Access to experts from around the globe
- Engaged, motivated, and highly skilled colleagues and managers
- International assignment opportunities
- Opportunities to visit project sites and construction locations
This job description is not exhaustive but is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities of this position.
