- Location
- Houston, Texas, United States; Miami, Florida, United States · Houston, Texas, United States · Miami, Florida, United States
- Department
- Quality
- Seniority
- Director
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
ON.energy is building the power infrastructure that makes the AI era possible. As AI demand surges past what the grid and traditional data centers can support, ON.energy provides a new class of power technology proven at gigawatt scale and trusted by the world’s leading cloud and AI companies. Our systems are already deployed across 2.5 GW of hyper-scale campuses, validated by top U.S. national labs, and certified for grid-safe operation by major utilities. With real products in the field, we’re scaling faster than the grid can, transforming power from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage for the companies building the future.
Director of Service Quality
Job Title: Director of Service Quality
Location: Houston, TX or Miami, FL; field travel required Reports To: VP of Quality
Position Summary
The Director of Service Quality is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously improving the quality strategy for service, commissioning, field operations, and post-installation support. This role ensures that field quality issues are identified, contained, investigated, corrected, and prevented through disciplined problem solving, strong cross-functional execution, and effective quality governance. The Director will partner closely with Service, Commissioning, Engineering, Supplier Quality, Project Management, Operations, and Customer-facing teams to improve system reliability, reduce repeat failures, strengthen customer confidence, and drive a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
· Develop and lead the Service Quality strategy, roadmap, and operating rhythm across field service, commissioning, warranty, customer escalations, and installed-base performance.
· Establish and manage field quality processes for issue intake, containment, triage, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, verification of effectiveness, and recurrence prevention.
· Lead cross-functional investigations of field failures involving equipment, installation, commissioning, controls, software, supplier components, workmanship, documentation, or process gaps.
· Define and track service quality KPIs, including field failure rate, repeat failure rate, first-time fix rate, mean time to repair, mean time between failures, customer-impacting incidents, NCR cycle time, CAPA closure rate, and warranty cost drivers.
· Partner with Project Engineering and Product Quality to translate field learnings into design improvements, reliability enhancements, service bulletins, installation standards, and product change priorities.
· Collaborate with Supplier Quality to ensure supplier-related field failures are properly contained, escalated, investigated, and resolved through effective supplier corrective action plans.
· Drive standardization of field inspection methods, service quality audits, defect classification, escalation thresholds, and customer-facing quality communications.
· Lead quality reviews for critical customer issues, major field events, warranty claims, and systemic reliability concerns; ensure executive-level visibility and timely decision-making.
· Promote a disciplined problem-solving culture using tools such as 8D, 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, fault-tree analysis, failure mode analysis, and data-driven prioritization.
· Ensure service quality processes align with the company’s Quality Management System, ISO 9001 expectations, document control requirements, NCR/CAPA workflows, and continuous improvement practices.
Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Reliability, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
· 10+ years of progressive experience in service quality, field quality, reliability, product quality, supplier quality, operations quality, or technical service leadership.
· 5+ years of people leadership or cross-functional quality leadership experience in a technical, industrial, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, or electro-mechanical environment.
· Strong experience leading field issue resolution, root cause analysis, corrective action, and preventive action programs.
· Demonstrated ability to analyze service data, quality trends, reliability performance, warranty drivers, and customer-impacting issues.
· Working knowledge of Quality Management Systems, NCR/CAPA processes, document control, audit practices, and ISO 9001 principles.
· Ability to influence cross-functional teams, suppliers, service partners, and senior leaders without relying solely on direct authority.
· Willingness to travel to project sites, supplier locations, customer locations, and service events as required.
· Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, ASQ certification, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent quality/reliability certification.
· Familiarity with electrical safety, commissioning protocols, supplier quality management, construction quality, and customer acceptance processes.
· Experience building dashboards or quality reporting mechanisms using QMS, ERP, CRM, service management, or business intelligence platforms.
For US-based roles - What you’ll get:
- Competitive salary + annual performance-based bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off and company holidays
For Mexico-based roles - What you’ll get:
- Competitive salary + annual performance bonus eligibility
- Christmas Bonus (Aguinaldo): 30 days
- Major medical expenses and life insurance
- Paid time off and holidays (per local policy)
For all roles:
- Professional development and growth opportunities
- Opportunity to grow with a mission-driven team shaping the future of clean energy
- Equal Opportunity: ON.energy is committed to equal employment opportunity and to maintaining a work environment free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.
- Accommodations: If you need an accommodation during the application process, email [email protected]
- Benefits vary by role and location and are subject to change.
