Product Quality Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Serve as the Product Quality representative and Quality sub-project lead for assigned global product-development programs, coordinating quality activities, deliverables, achievements, and reporting across the required…
• Define, align, and monitor Product Quality requirements and measurable acceptance criteria, ensuring reliability, maintainability, serviceability, and validation expectations are established before testing begins.
• Lead or facilitate product-risk activities, including DFMEA/PFMEA and technical risk assessments, and ensure significant risks, Critical-to-Quality characteristics, and mitigation actions are detailed, owned, and…
• Perform independent pre-milestone and launch-readiness assessments. Verify that required evidence supports Tollgate, Alpha/Beta, special-release, and commercialization decisions.
• Coordinate launch and manufacturing-readiness expectations with R&D, Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, and Validation, including appropriate Control Plans, PPAP/initial-sample activities, and product ramp-up…
• Support structured root-cause analysis and drive targeted CAPA/8D actions for significant or systemic product and Beta issues, including verification of containment, corrective action, and efficiency.
• Prevent recurrence by transferring lessons learned from development, manufacturing, suppliers, project execution, and field performance into new R&D programs and continuously improving Product Quality methods and…
• Provide clear, data-based visibility of product readiness, unresolved risks, action ownership, and critical issue needs to collaborators and leadership across regions.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Quality Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum five years of professional Quality experience in a product-, project-, or engineering-based business; experience with automated material handling or mechatronic products is preferred.
• Practical experience with product-development quality and several of the following: APQP, DFMEA/PFMEA, PPAP, Control Plans, RCA, 8D, CAPA, validation, lessons learned, and launch-readiness reviews.
• Ability to interpret engineering requirements, drawings, specifications, risk analyses, test plans, and validation evidence, and translate gaps into clear actions and needs for addressing blocking issues.
• Strong analytical capability and evidence-supported decision making, with the ability to distinguish product nonconformances from improvement opportunities.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation, presentation, and technical/business English abilities, including the capability to communicate effectively across functions and organizational levels.
• Established skill in directing and aligning work in an international matrix organization while preserving transparent accountability across Product Management, Engineering, Program Management, and Quality.
• Willingness to travel regionally up to 30%