Quality & Continuous Improvement Manager – Power Quality

The opportunity

At Hitachi Energy, we are powering the electricity era—enabling the energy transition through smarter, more resilient and sustainable power systems .

Join us in a pivotal role shaping quality excellence and continuous improvement for the Power Electronics Global Center of Competence (GCoC) within Grid & Power Quality Solutions & Service (GPQSS).

Based in Västerås, Sweden, this role plays a critical part in strengthening quality performance, project execution, and customer satisfaction across the Power Quality portfolio.

As Quality & Continuous Improvement Manager – Power Quality, you will act as a trusted quality partner to engineering, project execution, R&D, SCM, Service and management teams, embedding a strong quality and risk‑based mindset across the end to end value chain. You will champion the Voice of the Customer, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure robust deployment of quality management systems, processes, and tools.

This position offers clear potential to grow into broader leadership responsibility over time, supporting the expansion and maturity of Quality & CI leadership across the Power Electronics domain.

How you’ll make an impact

You act as a role model for the behaviors required to sustain a strong Quality & Continuous Improvement culture. You influence peers and leaders to ensure the right quality mindset, decisions, and trade‑offs are consistently applied in projects, products, and operations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive a strong Quality & Continuous Improvement culture within the Power Quality GCoC, acting as an ambassador and advocate for quality in all aspects of the business.
• Define and deploy Quality & CI priorities for Power Quality, aligned with GPQSS strategy, business objectives, and customer expectations.
• Act as the Voice of the Customer, ensuring customer requirements, feedback, and lessons learned are embedded into processes and decisions.
• Drive quality in execution by strengthening project quality, risk management, and governance throughout the project and product life cycle.
• Implement, maintain, and continuously improve the Quality Management System (QMS) in line with ISO 9001 and internal Hitachi Energy requirements.
• Lead and coordinate quality forums, reviews, and improvement initiatives, ensuring effective deployment of Q&CI processes and tools.
• Promote and apply Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, PDCA, and structured problem‑solving to reduce defects, improve predictability, and enhance efficiency.
• Support and govern customer quality topics, including root‑cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and sustainable resolution of issues.
• Strengthen cross‑functional collaboration to optimize QA/QC activities end to end.
• Develop awareness, capability, and engagement through training, coaching, and communication on quality and continuous improvement topics.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable external and internal regulations, processes, procedures, and guidelines.

Your background

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
• 15+ years relevant experience in Quality and Continuous Improvement, preferably within energy, oil and gas, or engineering‑driven environments.
• Demonstrated capability to drive quality culture and continuous improvement transformation initiatives in a matrix or project‑based organization.
• Good knowledge of quality management systems, methodologies, and QA/QC tools (ISO 9001, Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, PDCA, APQP, 8D).
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable improvement initiatives.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder‑management skills, able to work effectively across functions and levels.
• Fluent in English. Additional languages are a strong advantage.

More about us

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader. Within our global product line GPQSS, we support customers across utilities, renewables, industry, data centers, transportation, hydrogen, and e‑mobility—delivering power quality solutions that enable resilient and flexible energy systems.

At the Power Quality GCoC in Västerås, you will work in a diverse, collaborative, and innovative environment where quality, safety, and continuous improvement are essential to business success.

We offer hybrid working, strong learning and development opportunities, and the chance to grow your leadership footprint as the organization evolves.