Quality Management Office Trainee

About the Role

The QMO Trainee will be responsible for establishing, monitoring, and improving quality standards across project sites. The role will focus on ensuring consistent adherence to defined quality processes and standards through periodic audits, compliance monitoring, and follow-up on identified gaps. The objective of the role is to standardize project execution and reporting practices across sites, establish a defined quality benchmark, identify opportunities for improvement, and support the organization in achieving consistent and high-quality project deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Management System (QMS)

• Establish and Implement Quality Policy and Procedures
• Define organization's internal quality standards, checklists, and SOPs for project execution and deliverables.
• Ensure implementation of Quality checklists & SOPs on every site

Quality Monitoring

• Establish measurable quality parameters to monitor project execution and deliverables across all project sites.
• Monitor project sites regularly against the defined quality parameters to ensure adherence with established policies

Quality Compliance Check

• Conduct periodic quality audits across project sites to assess compliance with established standards and procedures.
• Prepare audit reports and track closure of identified observations.

Process Standardization & Improvement

• Standardize project processes across sites
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement best practices to eliminate repeated errors

Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS)

• Report, investigate, and support root cause analysis (RCA) of safety incidents and near-misses; track corrective actions to closure.
• Ensure compliance with site-specific safety protocols during electrical testing & commissioning activities.

Cross-Functional & Reporting

• Coordinate with Project/Site Engineers and Project Managers to embed quality and safety requirements into daily site execution.
• Track and report QMS/OHSMS KPIs (e.g., NC closure rate, safety incident rate, etc.).
• Conduct training and awareness sessions for site teams on QMS/OHSM.
• Support preparation of QMS/OHSMS documentation for client submittals, tenders, etc.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 3-4 years of site experience in a data centre, or other electrical testing & commissioning project environment.
• Mandatory: Certified Internal Auditor or Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2015 (QMS).
• Mandatory: Certified Internal Auditor or Lead Auditor for ISO 45001:2018 (OHSMS).
• Working knowledge of electrical testing & commissioning activities (switchgear, transformers, DG sets, UPS, cabling, protection systems) preferred.
• Familiarity with permit-to-work systems, JSA/risk assessment processes, and statutory safety compliance at industrial or data centre sites.

Skills & Attributes

• Strong documentation, reporting, and record-keeping discipline.
• High attention to detail, with a methodical, process-driven approach to quality and safety.
• Good communication and coordination skills, able to work effectively with site engineers, subcontractors, and client representatives.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Willingness to travel to project sites across India as required.
• A proactive, ownership-driven mind set comfortable identifying issues at site and following them through to closure, not just reporting them.