Plant Quality Manager

Plant Quality Manager

Vianode is an advanced battery materials company providing sustainable anode graphite solutions for the battery and EV value chains in North America and Europe. Vianode’s breakthrough solution enables tailored high-performance synthetic anode graphite and holistic sustainability offering a 90% reduction in CO2 footprint. Vianode operates the world's most sustainable full-scale anode graphite plant for batteries at Herøya, Norway.

Role Overview

As Plant Quality Manager, you will provide independent quality management for the manufacturing site and be responsible for driving product quality, customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. The role reports to VP Quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Plant Quality team.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, IATF 16949, customer requirements, and Vianode standards.
• Drive manufacturing quality performance through effective quality systems, process controls, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead customer quality activities, including complaint handling, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Support new product introduction (NPI), industrialization, and manufacturing scale-up activities.
• Lead internal, customer, supplier, and certification audits.
• Own and continuously improve the site's Quality Management System (QMS).
• Monitor quality KPIs and drive actions to improve quality, process capability, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to strengthen quality culture and operational excellence.