Senior Quality Engineer

The Senior Quality Engineer (QE) plays a key role in driving quality excellence throughout the product development process and its lifecycle. This position ensures that quality targets are clearly defined, integrated into designs, and continuously improved by incorporating lessons learned and good practices. Working in a global environment, the QE collaborates with internal experts and external Trade Good Suppliers to manage quality activities, regular reporting, customer claims and improvement initiatives. The QE also supports faster Time-to-Market and enhanced customer satisfaction through proactive quality leadership and cross-functional collaboration.Key Responsibilities:Lead quality function in product development to ensure quality improvement opportunities are identified, targets are properly defined and implemented, lessons learned are translated to projects, during product development (“designed-in quality”) and ensure that requirements for quality gates (QG’s) are met.Derive measures to improve preventive quality of our products and contribute to their implementation at NPI’s.Collaborate with teams throughout the product lifecycle and track appropriate quality assurance measures to achieve required product maturities.Create methods and monthly reports to manage stakeholder expectations and foster data-driven communication in quality.Identify and drive quality improvement and warranty cost reduction initiatives by ensuring timely and methodological problem solving through techniques such as 8D, Fishbone, 5why, etc.Monitor and conduct analysis of warranty return & repair data, failure cost, and customer complaints for early detection of quality-related problems with a data driven approach.Develop quality improvement targets in alignment with overall business objectives.Manage Trade Good Supplier quality issues, new product launch and supplier development. (PUQ)Contribute to reduced Time-to-Market by improved execution of processes and avoidance of deviations in projects and products.Support internal and ext. audit coordination for the AS9100 Campus certification.