Global Quality Lead
Lead the global quality strategy and management system for AI factories across Europe and North America.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 5 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own Volta's quality strategy and management system
- Build and lead the global quality function
- Set inspection and test plan standards
- Run quality audits and assurance reviews
- Report quality performance to the CDO
Must have
- Quality leadership on data centre construction programmes
- Track record running quality at programme level
- Experience building a quality management system
- Familiarity with commissioning practice
- Record in vendor quality and factory acceptance
Practical constraints
- Willingness to travel regularly to sites and factories across Europe and North America
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Global Quality Lead at Volta, the individual will oversee quality assurance across AI factory projects, ensuring that all sites meet established standards from vendor selection to commissioning. Key skills include experience in data center construction, quality management systems, and vendor quality assurance, particularly with critical equipment. This senior position is suited for someone with a strong background in quality leadership across multiple projects and regions. The role involves collaboration with various teams and requires regular travel to project sites.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 21, 2026. Last confirmed on Volta's careers page October 21, 2026.
- AI/ML appears in 26.2% of 595 comparable lead management roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Global Quality Lead role remote?
- Yes — Volta lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, ISO 9001, Quality Management, data centre.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Volta targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Global Quality Lead role at Volta.
From the original posting
About The Role
Volta is building AI factories across Europe and North America, starting with a 133MW site in Norway built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems. As Global Quality Lead, you will own quality across all of our AI factories – from vendor quality and factory acceptance through site inspection to the test and commissioning standards that prove a facility is ready for compute.
You will build the function from the ground up. You will set Volta's quality strategy, standards and management system, provide functional leadership to the quality resources embedded in each project team, and build the assurance programmes that keep every site to standard.
This is a senior, hands-on role reporting to the Chief Delivery Officer. You will work closely with Safety, Design and Engineering, Procurement, Project Controls, the regional delivery teams and the DSX Commissioning and Handover team. In an organisation built on repeatable delivery, quality is what makes repetition worth having.
What You Will Be Doing
• Own Volta's quality strategy, standards and quality management system across all projects, in Europe and North America.
• Build and lead the global quality function, providing functional leadership to the quality resources embedded in each project team.
• Set inspection and test plan standards for every major package – civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and controls.
• Build vendor quality and factory surveillance programmes for critical equipment, working with Procurement on supplier qualification and factory acceptance testing.
• Own non-conformance management and drive root-cause resolution across all of our sites.
• Set the quality standards that underpin commissioning from level 1 through level 5, working with the Commissioning and Handover team on the path to turn-up.
• Run quality audits and assurance reviews across active sites, and hold contractors and partners to standard.
• Embed right-first-time practices and make sure lessons learned on one site carry to the next.
• Report quality performance to the CDO and leadership team, with clear metrics and trends.
What You Bring
• Quality leadership on data centre or mission-critical construction programmes. Data centre experience is essential.
• A track record running quality at programme or portfolio level, across multiple concurrent projects and regions.
• Experience building or running a quality management system from scratch, ideally aligned to ISO 9001.
• Deep familiarity with commissioning practice on complex, MEP-heavy facilities.
• A strong record in vendor quality and factory acceptance for critical equipment such as switchgear, UPS, generators, chillers and CDUs.
• Structured root-cause problem solving and clear, data-led reporting.
• The credibility to hold projects, contractors and suppliers to standard.
• Willingness to travel regularly to sites and factories across Europe and North America
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Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary
Retirement/pension contributions
Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
Generous number of vacation days each year
Additional Information
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