Husk Power Systems Looking for Manager, Quality Assurance at Patna, Bihar, India Full Time

Job Description

About Husk Power Systems When people have access to power, incredible things happen. Placing xe2x80x98powerxe2x80x99 in the hands of rural customers helps them realize their aspirations and dreams that they never thought could happen. Making this possible in every village is at the heart of everything we do. Husk is one of the worldxe2x80x99s leading rural utility company that provides reliable power to households and businesses, from solar and biomass xe2x80x93 24 hours a day, 7 days a week xe2x80x93 at anaffordable price. Husk, established in 2008, designs, builds, owns and operates the lowest cost hybrid power plant and distribution network in India and Africa. We offer our customers a flexible xe2x80x98pay-as-you-goxe2x80x99 energy service, using a mobile-enabled smart metering system.
We provide low-cost energy that matches the growing needs of our customers; for households, community services and productive uses. Our grid-compatible solution can be rolled out quickly and cost effectively to support national electrification plans. To date, Husk has provided electricity to over 12,000 homes and businesses in rural India, Tanzania and Nigeria. Hence reducing 95,000 tons of CO2. Husk is poised to grow rapidly over the next four years and envisions adding over 1700 mini- grids in India,
Nigeria and other countries in Asia and Africa. Hence providing clean, affordable renewable energy, 200,000 customers in rural parts of the world that currently have no or limited access to electricity and is dependent on harmful diesel gensets for their power needs. Husk Values:
Honesty and Integrity; Act with discipline and integral to your job. Respect each other; Respect Human rights within our responsibility and contractual obligations. Frugal Innovation, Quality, and Reliability; Respect for the environment, health, and safety. Excellence as an attitude; We shall align perception to a common understanding of performance rating and measures., We > I, Fail Fast and Learn Faster Continuous Learning.
Husk is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, or religion. Husk is committed to improving gender balance within its teams in India and globally. Female candidates are therefore highly encouraged to apply even if not all requirements are met. Benefits:
Husk offers flexible working conditions with employee benefits that are in line with global best practices. These include clear career growth planning, transparent annual review processes that are gender inclusive, maternity and paternity leave, gender-inclusive workplace conditions, 18 days annual paid leave, family health insurance, frequent training to assist the employees to grow in and to the next roles, HEAD OF QHSSE. Husk does not believe in micromanagement and encourages its employees to have a healthy work-life balance hence giving them the freedom to manage their workload to be compatible with their life. Position Objective:
Quality Assurance (QA) Manager will be responsible for promoting a quality mindset across the entire organization as also for managing all QA functions, working with cross-departmental leadership to deliver high-quality projects/ services. He will establish and maintain a quality system to ensure a companyxe2x80x99s facilities, equipment, personnel, methods, processes, and procedures conform to both international guidelines and regulatory standards. He will lead the development, implementation, maintenance, improvement of the QA System, and processes to inculcate QA culture throughout the organization. Location and Travel: This role is based in Patna Key Responsibilities Include:

• Responsible for defining QA strategy, approach and execution in projects.
• Responsible for leading and directing the QA team as also provide technical expertise.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Ensuring that the project teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined.
• Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate tools & techniques.
• Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards. Monitoring of all the QA activities ie inspection, audit and root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement as also implement steps required to improve the processes.
• Gather and present QA metrics and QA activities for the projects to key stakeholders.
• Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance.
• Manage training and continuous learning of QA staff by means of short courses, conferences, meetups, certifications, etc.
• Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA teams.
• Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework.
• Work with QA Managers, Project Managers to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals.
• MIS Preparation and ISO documentation to prepare the Various Quality Reports and maintain the activity of Document Control as per the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001.

Key Responsibilities Area:

• QA Management experience across multiple projects at MW scale in the solar industry.
• Be a strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the companyxe2x80x99s QA processes and strategies.
• Have strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, ideally in a continuous delivery environment.
• Strong communication skills with all the key stakeholders to ensure QA vision is understood and implemented correctly.
• Be an advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement, and industry-recognized best practices.

Qualifications Requirements:
1. Certified Courses in QMS.
2. Minimum 8+ years experience in EPC Quality Assurance profile. Education:
1. B.Tech/ M. Tech xe2x80x93 any specialization. Salary: Minimum salary for this role is INR 6 LPA. DISCLAIMER: This is an exhaustive list of all principal accountabilities, dimensions of the job, and person specifications. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies, change in personnel, workload, technological developments, or organization developments). Job Type: Full-time Ability to commute/relocate:

• Patna, Bihar: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education: Experience:

• EPC Quality Assurance: 8 years (Required)