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Solution and Project Quality Manager – EMEA
KION Group. Provide strategic leadership for Project Quality across assigned EMEA business units, ensuring alignment with regional business objectives and customer expectations.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesPMP
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Provide strategic leadership for Project Quality across assigned EMEA business units, ensuring alignment with regional business objectives and customer expectations.
- Define and drive the regional strategy for project quality, focusing on prevention, continuous improvement, and sustainable performance improvements across the project lifecycle.
- 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 focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure consistent application of project quality standards, tools, and methodologies across projects.
- Work closely with Solutions Development and sales teams to ensure risks are identified, understood, and mitigated during the solution development phase.
- Ensure lessons learned from project execution are systematically captured and translated into improvements in solution design, project planning, and delivery processes.
- Promote early quality involvement to ensure robust designs, realistic project assumptions, and improved project readiness.
- Drive the consistent application of project quality standards, governance frameworks, and quality methodologies across EMEA projects.
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project quality risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Own and monitor key project quality performance indicators, including Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), ensuring transparency and accountability for improvement.
- Build strong cross-functional networks with Business Unit leadership, project teams, execution Functions, R&D/COE’s/Product management, operations, and global quality teams.
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.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Management, or a related technical discipline; significant equivalent experience may be considered.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred, with demonstrated application in complex operational or project environments.
- Knowledge of ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems and experience applying quality governance within project-based organizations.
- Project management knowledge or certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent) considered an advantage due to the project-driven nature of the role.
- Experience with advanced quality and risk tools such as FMEA, structured problem-solving, and data-driven analysis tools.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project quality managementcontinuous improvementstructured problem solvingrisk managementLeanSix Sigmavalue stream mappingKaizenFMEAdata-driven analysis
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationaccountabilitycoachingcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycustomer engagementnetworking
Certifications
Lean Six Sigma Green BeltLean Six Sigma Black BeltPMPPRINCE2