Quality Team Leader for Testing

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.Why you’ll love working for Siemens- Freedom and a healthy work- life balance- Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.- Solve the world’s most significant problems - Be part of exciting and innovative projects.- Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.- Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.- Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.- Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.- Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get rewards for them- Diversity and inclusivity focused.What will you do?Ensures adherence to Quality Control / Management related processes and procedures, and oversees related operational and/or support activities, with specific inspection and testing teams assigned. Quality Control Leader with a technical team assigned.**Responsibilities**:- Leads an assigned inspection and testing quality control team. Prioritizes and assigns tasks to team members and checks progress of agreed activities.- Ensures that employees understand the consequences of not meeting EHS, customer and regulatory requirements.- Manages quality control related activities with internal and external parties involved, with emphasis on the inspection and testing processes for assigned products, such as: MV IEC AIS switchgear, LV motor control centers, LV boxes for GIS switchgear, MV ANSI AIS switchgear and MV ANSI outdoor vacuum circuit breakers, as required.- Ensures qualification and competences of the assigned team. Identifying training needs, lead training, and development of testing team members.- Implements the specific quality control initiatives within the respective organization and monitors the effectiveness of these initiatives.- Contributes to process and product safety activities.- Ensures real-time applicable quality control reporting for further ad-hoc analysis, instant decision making, preventive action and continuous improvement.- Ensures employees have all tools, equipment, and test documentation needed to work productively.- Participate on improvement initiatives with involved team members to assure timely and high-quality delivery of manufacturing processes and/or products required to drive success, according to the customers expectations.- Acts as an escalation point of contact for quality issues.What will you need to succeed?- Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology or equivalent.- Minimum of (5) Five years of related test experience.- Proficient knowledge of test equipment required.- Knowledge in engineering drawings, wiring schematics and bill of materials.- Ability to motivate various groups of people to complete a task scheduled, solve a problem, or implement improvements.- Positively supports other shifts and other testing areas, as appropriate.- Excellent oral/written communication skills and strong organizational/planning skills.- Digital literacy required including Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Teams) and ability to learn additional software packages, as required.- Understands KPIs for quality, current standing on the KPIs, and actions to improve.- Knowledge in ISO 9001, 14001, & 45001 standards preferred.- Subject Matter Expert (SME) for assigned products in area of responsibility preferred.- SAP, and Team Center experience preferred.- Experience in an Engineer to Order environment preferred.- Understanding of Lean principles and practices preferred.Equal Employment Opportunity Statement