PrQSM - Project Quality & Safety Manager

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Project Quality Safety Manager

She/He has the responsibility is to ensure the project Quality and safety assurance on the project and coordinate all quality and safety activities throughout the project reporting to the Site Quality Manager and functionally to the Project Manager.

In addition ensure consistency between the project QCD objectives and the customer's satisfaction.

PrQSM is a Core Team position supporting the project and reporting to Quality organization.

Customer Quality;

• Be the interface with the Customer quality and safety teams

Project Quality;

• Establish the Project Quality plan and ensure the proper application during contract execution in accordance to the contract requirements, and to the Alstom processes
• Contribute to the criticality assessment of sub-systems to ensure right level of safety and quality assurance as well as inspection activities for all identified CTQ.
• Be the preferable interface in the Project Team for all the métiers Quality needed for the Project (Engineering EQ, Industrial IQ and Supplier SQ)
• Guide project teams in understanding Quality contributions to the project.
• Animate and coordinate the project quality community (system and sub-systems)
• Provide quality awareness on quality activities planned for the project and organise if needed quality trainings
• Support on request project audits, reviews and approval of vendor quality systems and audits compliance

Project execution controls;

• Support the project teams and the PM to prepare gate reviews & follow up related action plans
• Report quality and safety alerts and manage Non-conformities and Safety issues
• Ensure quality of the modifications made during the project
• Ensure that safety assessment is correctly implemented (i.e.: safety review) and prepare safety authorization.

• Control project deliverables compliance through inspection and audits - to authorize presentation / delivery to customer
• Ensure that all the REX of all the métiers have been considered in the Risks & Opportunities and closely monitor to prevent occurrence
• Make sure to manage with SQ Team and/or Sourcing a good synchronization and follow-up of GO Production and FAI activities, relative to the SPL (Supplier Part List) as part of RAMS
• Is the owner of the Supplier Part List, and ensure the list is properly created by each Sub-system
• Ensure and improve the tender quality during tender phase upon request

Measure and improve project quality performance:

• Facilitate problem solving during project execution phase to reduce the costs of non-quality (8D, REX and standards evolution)
• Improve the efficiency of quality teams to reduce the function costs
• Make sure that the relevant stakeholders are included in Customer issues solving process (if needed).
• Implement an effective corrective and preventive action system
• Provide support for progress periodic reporting through quality indicators and identify improvement opportunities

Performance measurements:

• “On Time” Gate Reviews and shared with PMO “DFQ Look Ahead”
• Number of remaining Safety or Customer Issues to fix after target time agreed
• Cost of Non-Quality and speed to solve non-conformities
• Project Performance Indicator

What do I need to qualify for this job?

• Master’s degree in engineering with Management background depending on the size of the project
• Experience in managing Quality tools and problem-solving tools
• Awareness on Processes and Products delivered in the project,
• Fluent in English

• Knowledge of railway industry (norms, certifications…) would be an asset
• Experience in Quality / audit are appreciated

Competencies & Skills

• Rigor, Communication, knowledge of Quality standard (ISO9001, IRIS, CMMI, ECM,.) and quality tools
• Experience in operational activities and in documentation management
• Collaboration and team working

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