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Volta is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform building AI factories across Europe and North America. The company is backed by a $10B strategic partnership with a leading frontier AI lab, Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund. Volta is launching with a 133MW facility in Norway built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems and is scaling rapidly from 100+ people to hundreds.
As Global Quality Lead, you will own quality strategy, standards, and management systems across all of Volta's AI factory projects globally. This is a senior, hands-on role reporting to the Chief Delivery Officer, building the quality function from the ground up.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and implementing Volta's quality strategy, standards, and quality management system across Europe and North America projects
- Building and leading the global quality function, providing functional leadership to quality resources embedded in each project team
- Setting inspection and test plan standards for civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls packages
- Establishing vendor quality and factory surveillance programmes for critical equipment (switchgear, UPS, generators, chillers, CDUs)
- Managing non-conformance and driving root-cause resolution across all sites
- Setting quality standards for commissioning (levels 1-5) and working with the Commissioning and Handover team
- Running quality audits and assurance reviews across active sites
- Embedding right-first-time practices and ensuring lessons learned transfer between sites
- Reporting quality performance metrics and trends to leadership
- Collaborating closely with Safety, Design, Engineering, Procurement, Project Controls, and regional delivery teams
You will work across multiple concurrent projects and regions, with regular travel to sites and factories in Europe and North America.
Requirements:
- Quality leadership experience on data centre or mission-critical construction programmes (data centre experience essential)
- 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 ISO 9001 aligned
- Deep familiarity with commissioning practice on complex, MEP-heavy facilities
- Strong record in vendor quality and factory acceptance for critical equipment
- Structured root-cause problem-solving and data-led reporting capabilities
- Credibility to hold projects, contractors, and suppliers to standard
- Willingness to travel regularly to sites and factories across Europe and North America
