Global Quality Systems Manager (m/f/d), (80-100%)

Accelleron is accelerating sustainability in the marine and energy industries as a global technology leader in turbocharging, fuel injection, and digital solutions for heavy-duty applications. Building on a heritage of over 100 years as a trusted industry partner, the company serves customers in more than 100 locations in over 50 countries. Accelleron’s 3,000 employees are continuously innovating to deliver best-in-class products, services, and solutions that are mission-critical for the energy transition. You will join a team of experts in an exciting international environment, committed to excellence and innovation. Together, we support our customers in driving the transition toward sustainable industries with cutting-edge technology, deep expertise, and smart solutions. At Accelleron, we foster diversity and inclusion, welcoming and celebrating individual differences as a source of strength.

As a member of Accelleron’s Management Systems Team, you will be responsible for quality governance and certification in Switzerland, ensuring ongoing compliance and maintaining the company’s licence to operate.

You will support global and local quality teams through risk-based assessments, process improvements, and guidance, while coordinating cross-functional quality topics and driving them to sustainable resolution.

You will also contribute to key business projects with quality-related elements, taking the lead where appropriate.

The ideal candidate has a strong quality background, is proactive and self-motivated, and can effectively influence stakeholders without direct authority. The role offers a high level of autonomy and requires strong ownership and prioritization skills.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead the Swiss Quality Certification and audit processes as well as the management review, implementing a robust, risk-based and meaningful approach.

• Ensure licence to operate with respect to quality is assured in Switzerland, and provide guidance and support on this to the global organization.

• Own key global quality processes.

• Own and continue to develop the global quality components and tools of the Accelleron Management Systems, ensuring they are simple, user-focused, and effectively embedded across the business. Critically, proactively work with stakeholders to ensure these are fit for purpose.

• Define and maintain the global quality framework within the Accelleron Management Systems, ensuring consistent application of quality principles across the business.

• Proactively support the divisions and functions by assessing quality and process risk and working directly with them to implement improvements.

• Facilitate cross-organisation alignment on quality topics by driving collaboration, sharing lessons learned and best practices, and coordinating effective resolution of cross organisational cases.

• Participate in or lead internal projects with a quality component as appropriate.

• Support Risk Management, Business Resilience and Marine Compliance.

Your profile:

• Seasoned quality professional with experience in complex manufacturing or industrial environments. Expertise in core quality methodologies and their practical application.

• Proven track record in designing, implementing, and improving quality management systems.

• Deep practical knowledge of ISO 9001 and related standards, including leadership of certification and audit programs and certified lead auditor.

• Experience working in or with integrated management systems (quality, environment, safety, etc.) and familiarity with system architectures and global process ownership.

• Operates naturally as a centre-of-excellence advisor: influences through expertise, credibility, and hands-on support, not through hierarchical authority.

• Pragmatic, business-oriented approach to quality, focuses on solutions that are simple, user-focused, and can actually be implemented in practice.

• High personal integrity and resilience.

• Strong communication and facilitation skills to drive cross organisational collaboration and knowledge sharing on quality topics.

• Direct experience in or with the marine industry is a benefit.

We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about Accelleron, take another look at our website accelleron.com.

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