Quality Manager, Solutions and Projects

KION Group

Strategic leadership for Project Quality across EMEA at Dematic, ensuring project excellence throughout the lifecycle of customer projects. Collaborating with teams to drive improvements and enhance project delivery performance.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeBanbury • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide strategic leadership for Project Quality across assigned EMEA business units.
Define and drive the regional strategy for project quality, focusing on prevention, continuous improvement, and sustainable performance improvements.
Lead strategic quality improvement initiatives that strengthen project delivery performance and support business growth.
Lead, develop, and coach the Project Quality team, fostering a high performance culture.
Ensure consistent application of project quality standards, tools, and methodologies across projects.
Build strong engagement between Project Quality Engineers and project teams to ensure quality is effectively integrated into project execution.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven leadership experience in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment demonstrating behaviours aligned with Dematic and KION values of Integrity, Collaboration, Courage, and Excellence.
Experience overseeing quality across multiple large-scale, complex projects within engineering, automation, or project-driven environments.
Demonstrated experience driving structured problem solving and effective corrective and preventive action systems to eliminate root causes and prevent recurrence.
Practical experience applying continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, value stream mapping, Kaizen, or similar approaches.
Experience collaborating with engineering or solutions development teams to proactively manage risks during early project phases.
Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites (up to approximately 30%) to support project teams and customer engagements.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

project quality managementcontinuous improvementLeanSix Sigmavalue stream mappingKaizenstructured problem solvingcorrective action systemspreventive action systemsproject delivery performance

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachinghigh performance culturecollaborationintegritycourageexcellenceengagementcommunicationstrategic thinking