Quality Assurance Manager

Job title Quality Assurance Manager
Siemens Mobility (SMO) is the world's leading provider of mobility solutions
that enable the efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly transport of
people and goods - and help improve the quality of everyday life for millions
of people on all continents.
Motivated by innovation, we develop intelligent solutions for the growing
digitalization of the transport sector. Our range of offerings includes rail
vehicles, rail automation, road traffic management systems, rail
electrification and services.
Today, we are recruiting for the Quality Assurance Manager position to Join
our High-Speed Rail Project Team in Cairo office. This is an excellent career
opportunity for Quality Professionals from Rail /Transportation Business
looking to join a truly international team.
What are my responsibilities?
* Developing good working and collaborative relationships; providing support and guidance to the Alliance organization and construction site management teams, enabling them to manage their sites to high standards and in line with Alliance procedures.
* Supporting the Alliance in developing the quality plans, procedures, forms, and checklists for quality, that are aligned with Alliance and contract specific needs, and that meet the requirements of the Quality Management System.
* Ensuring the effective execution of management plans to achieve quality, through the PM & Siemens quality gate process, and the active participation in readiness checks and quality gate reviews.
* Supporting Project Managers in ensuring quality control through the supply chain with focus on the supplier capability, qualification, assessment, and the selection processes, and the interface relationships for quality, including partnerships and collaborative working arrangements.
* Investigating and ensuring action to eliminate the cause of potential and actual non-conformities to prevent their occurrence and in all cases of non-conformity, the actions to eliminate the root cause.
* Planning and coordinating continuous improvement actions for all phases of the project to share good practice, feedback experiences and drive best practice, typically through continuous improvement workshops, training, lessons learnt reviews, etc.
* Planning and conducting project audits and site inspection, etc. and ensuring implementation of required actions, including the follow-up of corrective actions to a conclusion.
* Managing professional feedback to and from the customer and acting as the internal voice of the Alliance on quality matters, including complaints, non-conformities, etc. to ensure satisfactory outcome.
* Reporting quality status, KPI's, quality incidents and root-cause-analysis and participating in quality status reviews
* Identifying qualification / competence requirements and initiating training for project employees to ensure knowledge of quality methods to be applied, process awareness and enhancement of knowledge.
* Ensuring quality management system records are maintained and kept readily available.
What do I need to qualify for this job?
* Bachelor's degree in a technical field or business administration and recognized qualification
* Minimum of ‎5 years of relevant experience in the designated professions, on similar projects with a preferable three or more years of relevant experience in the transport industry within a multinational company.
* Qualified Quality Management System (QMS) Lead Auditor (ISO9001; ‎2008).
* Experience working as a Quality Assurance / Control Advisor in a large project multi-disciplinary environment involving site work.
* Detailed knowledge of Quality standards, processes, and requirements suitable for a project organization and site operational activities.
* Knowledge of the quality requirements and standards for large-scale railway projects.
* Must have experience working in mechanical/electrical and/or civil safety critical work environment.
* IT Literacy (MS Office)
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* High level of accuracy, attention to detail and ability to work to deadlines.
* Very good command of both the spoken and written English language.
What else do I need to know?
Siemens is dedicated to quality, equality, and valuing diversity, and we
welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities within
which we work. People with disabilities will be preferred in case of equal
qualification.
Please find more information at www.siemens.com/career
How do I apply?
We are looking forward to receiving your on-line application. Please note only
complete application documents, including diplomas, certificates of employment
or letter of recommendation respectively can be considered in the selection
process.