Senior Quality Engineer in Hapert

🇬🇧 Vacancy: Senior Quality Engineer
Are you an experienced Quality Engineer with a strong technical background? Do you enjoy working on product quality, process improvement and solving quality issues at the source? For an innovative technical production environment in Hapert, we are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer who can take responsibility for quality and work closely with different departments.

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🔧 What will you do?
As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be involved in the development of new products from an early stage. You advise colleagues on quality and manufacturability and make sure that quality requirements are properly translated into the production process.
You will proactively initiate, prepare and carry out activities to secure and continuously improve product and process quality. You work closely with Engineering, Purchasing, Sales and Production and regularly communicate with customers about product quality and the handling of complaints.
Your responsibilities include:

• Supporting new product development from a quality and manufacturability perspective
• Identifying, analysing and solving quality issues and initiating structural improvements
• Monitoring and improving quality processes and ensuring that quality requirements are properly implemented
• Working with quality systems such as IATF 16949, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
• Applying improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma
• Coordinating quality-related activities with different departments and stakeholders
• Maintaining direct contact with customers regarding quality issues and complaints

🎓 What do we expect from you?

• A Bachelor's degree (HBO level) in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Industrial Engineering / Technical Business Administration, or a comparable technical background
• Several years of experience in a similar Quality Engineering position
• Experience with quality management systems such as IATF 16949, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 is preferred
• Knowledge of Lean and/or Six Sigma is an advantage
• Experience coordinating activities and working with colleagues from different departments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills and a proactive, hands-on approach
• Good command of English, both written and spoken
• Dutch is preferred; German is an advantage

💡 What kind of person are we looking for?
You are someone who does not simply identify a quality problem, but wants to understand why it happens and how to prevent it from happening again. You are comfortable moving between the production floor, engineering and management and know how to bring different departments together around quality improvements.
You are analytical, communicative and take initiative. At the same time, you have a practical, hands-on mentality and are not afraid to get involved in the details of a technical production process.

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💼 What do we offer you?

• A competitive salary with good secondary employment conditions
• Working within a stable and growing production organisation
• A pleasant working environment in small and committed teams
• Opportunities to develop yourself both personally and professionally
• We look at you as a person and as a professional and work together to find a job with a future
• Personal guidance from our team and 24/7 availability
• The opportunity to work on a long-term project with the possibility of a permanent future
• If needed: support with transport and accommodation in the Netherlands