Testing & Quality Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for leading quality testing, and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for switchgear systems, covering Incoming, In-Process, and Outgoing stages, in compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 17025, and IEC standards such as IEC 61439 and IEC 62271. This role includes managing supplier audits, verifying technical specifications, and overseeing quality control throughout the production process. The candidate will lead major quality projects including specification verification and customer witness testing, while also developing and programming relay protection systems for medium voltage applications. Strategic responsibilities include improving the quality management system through risk-based planning, engaging with stakeholders to shape quality functions, and ensuring effective communication and documentation.

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This role is contributing to the Operations Manager

You will be mainly accountable for:

• The Testing & Quality Manager is accountable for leading all technical testing, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), commissioning support, and validation activities for LV and MV switchgear, ensuring compliance with IEC standards, customer specifications, protection systems, communication interfaces, and automation requirements.
• The role serves as the technical authority for switchgear quality, including electrical drawing review, relay protection programming, protection coordination, system integration, troubleshooting, and customer witness testing.
• The position owns the end-to-end quality management process from incoming material inspection, in-process quality control, manufacturing quality assurance, testing validation, and final outgoing product release, while driving supplier quality, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives to achieve zero-defect products and operational excellence. The manager also leads and develops testing and quality teams, manages customer and certification body interactions, and ensures the successful delivery of safe, reliable, and high-quality switchgear solutions.

Qualifications for the role

• Minimum 10 years of experience in testing, quality assurance, FAT, commissioning, switchgear operations, and manufacturing within the electrical power distribution or switchgear industry. Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Technology, Power Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong expertise in LV & MV switchgear systems, including assembly, operation, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, maintenance, customer acceptance, and protection relay configuration, testing, and integration with SCADA, DCS, and RTU systems.
• Solid knowledge of power system protection and control, including protection coordination, selectivity studies, control logic, interlocking schemes, system integration, and interpretation of electrical drawings, SLDs, schematics, and wiring diagrams.
• Comprehensive quality management experience across the manufacturing value chain, covering incoming inspection, in-process quality control, final testing, FAT, product release, compliance management, and supplier quality assurance.
• In-depth understanding of international standards and regulatory requirements, including ISO 9001, ISO 17025, IEC 61439, IEC 62271, IEC 61850, audit management, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong leadership, analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and customer-facing skills, with proven experience leading teams, driving RCA/CAPA initiatives, facilitating FATs, audits, technical reviews, and conducting business in English.

What’s in it for you?

We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You’ll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that’s tailored to your goals. Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors,
motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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