Responsibilities

• Drive electrical equipment quality improvement initiatives for India region.
• Be the champion for quality cultural change by applying lessons learned and instituting permanent controls for sustained change.
• Partner with engineering, construction, and the suppliers to identify equipment quality gaps and institute controls.
• Identify equipment specification and test procedure gaps for early detection of issues, Partner with engineering and the suppliers on better designs to prevent failures.
• Assess supplier’s equipment quality and manufacturing processes to ensure that they meet Microsoft requirements, identify gaps and work with the suppliers to mitigate those gaps.
• Conduct root cause analysis on high impact complex technical problems, identify trends, forecast risks, and take proactive steps to prevent similar occurrences.

Qualifications

Knowledge, experience, and skills:

Success in this role will require a high degree of collaboration, critical thinking, and process design expertise. The successful candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent degree.
• 7+ years of professional level experience in electrical power distribution products - Low/Medium voltage switchgears, and/or UPS.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional level experience in the data center industry is a plus.
• Strong technical knowhow (Subject matter expert) of the equipment.
• Experience leading cross functional team of engineering, manufacturing, operations, and suppliers to identify root causes and drive corrective actions.
• Ability to coach, train, and support suppliers to improve their processes.
• Drives through ambiguity, self-motivated and thrives on minimal supervision. Sound judgment, decision-making skills, and ability to work under continual deadline pressure in an extremely volatile and high paced environment.