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Invenergy is North America's largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of power infrastructure. With 25 years of trusted execution, we deliver reliable, affordable energy through a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, solar, land-based wind, energy storage, transmission, and domestic manufacturing. Headquartered in Chicago, we develop, own, and operate large scale projects that power communities and support the energy future.

This position will be open for application for at least 3 calendar days from the posting date. This position will remain open for application based on business need, which may be before or after the 3-day posting window.

The Quality Coordinator is a senior individual contributor role responsible for fleet wide governance and quality assurance of Incident Management and Process/Product Nonconformance programs, while also owning site specific quality process execution and improvement activities at the Invenergy Central Machine Shop.

This role serves as the Quality system steward for incident investigations and nonconformance governance across the fleet, ensuring consistent application of risk based rigor, investigation quality, and corrective action effectiveness in accordance with Invenergy policy and procedures. In parallel, the role provides hands on quality process leadership at the Central Machine Shop, supporting manufacturing, repair, inspection, and continuous improvement activities.

The Quality Coordinator operates as a technical authority, governance facilitator, and cross functional partner, not as a people manager.

• Provide fleet wide governance oversight for Incident Management and Process/Product Nonconformance programs, ensuring consistent application of Invenergy policies, risk classification criteria, investigation rigor, and closure expectations across all sites.
• Serve as the Quality authority for investigation governance, reviewing incidents, near misses, and nonconformances to confirm:
• Act as the Quality representative and facilitator for enterprise governance forums (e.g., Nonconformance Risk Review Committee), including convening reviews, confirming risk classifications, validating investigation scope and rigor, and assessing corrective action adequacy and scalability.
• Ensure clear governance handoff between Nonconformance Management and Incident Management when Serious Injury or Fatality potential (SIFp) criteria are identified, avoiding duplication and maintaining procedural alignment.
• Maintain Intelex as the authoritative system of record, enforcing discipline in documentation, approvals, rationale, corrective actions, and evidence to ensure transparency, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Analyze fleet wide trends, repeat issues, and systemic weaknesses related to incidents and nonconformances; elevate insights and recommendations to the Director of Quality to support continuous improvement and preventive actions.
• Own site level quality process execution at the Central Machine Shop, including identification and documentation of process or product deviations, support of investigations, and verification of corrective action completion for shop specific issues.
• Partner with Machine Shop leadership, Engineering, Operations, and EHS to improve process consistency, inspection effectiveness, and defect prevention, translating fleet level lessons learned into practical local process improvements.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to investigation owners and contributors across the fleet on risk based thinking, governance expectations, and documentation quality, without assuming execution ownership or people management responsibility.
• Up to 20% travel may be required.
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Operations, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in quality, operations, engineering, incident management, manufacturing, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience with:
  • Incident or event investigation frameworks
  • Nonconformance / deviation management
  • Riskbased governance models
• Strong analytical, documentation, and facilitation skills.
• Eligible to work in the United States without the need for employer visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience with Intelex or similar ESHQ/ Quality Systems
• Exposure to SIFpbased incident classification.
• Manufacturing, repair, or industrial shop experience.
• Familiarity with causal analysis methods (e.g., Cause Mapping, 5Why).
• Systemlevel thinker with strong governance discipline
• Comfortable influencing across sites without direct authority
• Detailoriented, auditready, and processdriven
• Clear, confident communicator who can challenge constructively

The base pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target salary for the position. Invenergy considers a number of factors when determining base pay offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education and skills.
In addition to base pay, the total annual compensation package may also include eligibility to participate in our bonus program(s) which are designed to reward individual and company performance. Your recruiter can share more about bonus eligibility for this position during the hiring process.
Invenergy offers a variety of other benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k, profit sharing, paid time off, etc.

Invenergy LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.