Vice President, Quality and HSE Americas

Vice President, Quality and HSE Americas

The Head of Quality Americas is responsible for overseeing and leading quality management systems and processes within the Group Division Americas. The role’s primary purpose is to advance the principles and habits associated with our value of "Operational Excellence". Additionally, the role involves fostering a culture of quality and accountability throughout the organization to allow the Belimo "Credibility Culture" to flourish.

This position reports to the Head of Group Quality with a strong dotted line to President, Belimo Americas.

• Leadership of Americas Quality & HSE Organization: Leads and manages the Americas quality organization (as part of the Americas Leadership Team), ensuring effective leadership, coaching, and development across the following six domains:
  Customer Quality, Development Project Quality, Integrated Management System (IMS), Operations Quality, Functional Excellence, Sustainability and Product Compliance fostering a culture of accountability and operational excellence across the region.
• Translation of Global Quality Strategy into Regional execution: Translates the Global Quality strategy into actionable regional initiatives for the Americas and ensures their implementation in alignment with the HGQS, the Head of Group Division Americas, and other regional leaders.
• Deployment and standardization: Ensures the effective deployment of global quality initiatives, standards, and systems within the Americas, including harmonization and standardization of quality processes across all regional sites and subsidiaries.
• Integrated Management System and Regulatory compliance: Develops, maintains, and continuously improves the integrated Quality Management System for the Americas in line with ISO
  9001, ISO
  14001, and ISO
  45001, ensuring operational compliance with regional legislation as well as Group requirements.
• Customer Quality and Internal Case resolution: Oversees the resolution of customer quality issues and internal quality cases within the Americas ensuring timely closure, cost control, root‑cause analysis, and robust corrective and preventive actions. Provides transparency through regional metrics, forecasts, and accruals.
• Continuous Improvement and cross-functional Quality excellence: Drives regional continuous improvement efforts by identifying quality gaps, initiating cross functional improvement projects, and embedding best practices throughout Operations, Production, Product Management, Innovation, Purchasing, and Customer Service.
• Health, Safety and Environmental performance: Ensures compliance with regional occupational health, safety, and environmental requirements, maintains a low TRIR, and promotes a culture of safety across the sites in the Americas. Provides guidance, training, and oversight of HSE responsibilities in alignment with global HSE standards.
• Audit, Certification and ISO readiness: Supports internal and external audits, and ensures site readiness for certifications, recertifications and ISO compliance.
• Complaint management and Aftersales Quality: Oversees the complaint management of the Americas and aftersales quality processes, including warranty, goodwill, and time‑to‑resolution KPIs, ensuring transparency and closed‑loop improvement.
• Compliance Process Oversight and risk Management: Ensures effective application of compliance processes in the Americas, assigning responsibilities, supporting risk assessments, and monitoring adherence to Group directives and regional regulatory frameworks.
• Implementation of Quality Methods and Performance Measures: Supports the implementation of global qualitative and quantitative quality methods within the Americas, such as customer satisfaction surveys or other performance measures defined by Group Quality.
• KPI Management and Group Reporting: Establishes and monitors regional KPIs and reports about quality and HSE performance into Group structures, including contributions to the Annual Quality Management Review.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a relevant field such as engineering, business process management or quality management
• Internal/ Lead Auditor (ISO…