Global Quality Lead

About Volta

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform - from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

About The Role

Volta is building AI factories across Europe and North America, starting with a 133MW site in Norway built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems. As Global Quality Lead, you will own quality across all of our AI factories - from vendor quality and factory acceptance through site inspection to the test and commissioning standards that prove a facility is ready for compute.

You will build the function from the ground up. You will set Volta's quality strategy, standards and management system, provide functional leadership to the quality resources embedded in each project team, and build the assurance programmes that keep every site to standard.

This is a senior, hands-on role reporting to the Chief Delivery Officer. You will work closely with Safety, Design and Engineering, Procurement, Project Controls, the regional delivery teams and the DSX Commissioning and Handover team. In an organisation built on repeatable delivery, quality is what makes repetition worth having.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own Volta's quality strategy, standards and quality management system across all projects, in Europe and North America.

• Build and lead the global quality function, providing functional leadership to the quality resources embedded in each project team.

• Set inspection and test plan standards for every major package - civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and controls.

• Build vendor quality and factory surveillance programmes for critical equipment, working with Procurement on supplier qualification and factory acceptance testing.

• Own non-conformance management and drive root-cause resolution across all of our sites.

• Set the quality standards that underpin commissioning from level 1 through level 5, working with the Commissioning and Handover team on the path to turn-up.

• Run quality audits and assurance reviews across active sites, and hold contractors and partners to standard.

• Embed right-first-time practices and make sure lessons learned on one site carry to the next.

• Report quality performance to the CDO and leadership team, with clear metrics and trends.

What You Bring

• Quality leadership on data centre or mission-critical construction programmes. Data centre experience is essential.

• A 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 aligned to ISO 9001.

• Deep familiarity with commissioning practice on complex, MEP-heavy facilities.

• A strong record in vendor quality and factory acceptance for critical equipment such as switchgear, UPS, generators, chillers and CDUs.

• Structured root-cause problem solving and clear, data-led reporting.

• The credibility to hold projects, contractors and suppliers to standard.

• Willingness to travel regularly to sites and factories across Europe and North America

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What We Offer

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.
As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary

• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success

• Retirement/pension contributions

• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits

• Generous number of vacation days each year

Additional Information

Background Checks

All offers of employment at Volta are conditional on the satisfactory completion of pre-employment screening, which includes confirmation of your right to work, verification of your employment history and a criminal record check, where this is permitted by local law. Screening is carried out by Zinc, an accredited third-party provider, after an offer is made and all information is handled confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection law.

Equal Opportunity

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accessibility

Volta is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at askpeople@volta.com. We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.

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Note to Recruitment Agencies

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