Design Assurance Quality Engineer

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.; Belgique; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. is seeking a Design Assurance Quality Engineer for Europe, open to location and remote work with travel. You will integrate quality into the NPD process, drive risk assessment, and lead design reviews to ensure CTQ requirements are met throughout development and launch.

The role partners with engineering, manufacturing and supplier quality teams to ensure design transfer and production readiness, while applying APQP, DFMEA, PFMEA and change control practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Quality subject matter expert within cross-functional New Product Development (NPD) teams.
• Embed quality requirements throughout the product development lifecycle, from concept through commercialization.
• Lead quality planning activities, including Design Quality Plans, Control Plans, inspection strategies, and defect prevention initiatives.
• Drive risk management through DFMEA, PFMEA, hazard analysis, FRACA, and robust mitigation planning.
• Facilitate design and process reviews, ensuring quality, reliability, and customer requirements are built into product designs.
• Develop and execute verification and validation strategies to ensure products meet critical-to-quality (CTQ) requirements.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supplier Quality teams to ensure successful design transfer and production readiness.
• Lead structured problem-solving, root cause analysis, and corrective actions during product development and launch.
• Ensure compliance with internal quality systems, industry standards, APQP requirements, and change control processes.
• Use data, statistical methods, and lessons learned to monitor quality performance and drive continuous improvement across NPD projects

Skills

Quality engineering

Design assurance

New product development

Lean Six Sigma

Minitab

PLM

ERP

QMS platforms

APQP

PPAP

Design controls

Product lifecycle management

CQE

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical discipline

Tools

Minitab

PLM

ERP

QMS platforms

Job description

Role: Design Assurance Quality Engineer – New Product Development

Location: Europe (Open to Location) – Remote Worker with ad hoc travel

Employment: Permanent

Come build something that matters.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job

The Design Assurance Quality Engineer supports new product development activities by ensuring quality is built into product design, development, system, verification, validation, and launch processes. This role partners cross-functionally with engineering, R&D, manufacturing, sourcing, and regulatory/compliance teams to identify risks early, implement robust controls, and ensure new products meet customer, business, and applicable quality requirements.

The position plays a key role in design quality planning and strategy, risk management, design reviews, and verification and validation support.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Quality subject matter expert within cross-functional New Product Development (NPD) teams.
• Embed quality requirements throughout the product development lifecycle, from concept through commercialization.
• Lead quality planning activities, including Design Quality Plans, Control Plans, inspection strategies, and defect prevention initiatives.
• Drive risk management through DFMEA, PFMEA, hazard analysis, FRACA, and robust mitigation planning.
• Facilitate design and process reviews, ensuring quality, reliability, and customer requirements are built into product designs.
• Develop and execute verification and validation strategies to ensure products meet critical-to-quality (CTQ) requirements.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supplier Quality teams to ensure successful design transfer and production readiness.
• Lead structured problem-solving, root cause analysis, and corrective actions during product development and launch.
• Ensure compliance with internal quality systems, industry standards, APQP requirements, and change control processes.
• Use data, statistical methods, and lessons learned to monitor quality performance and drive continuous improvement across NPD projects

The Person

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You're not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it. Wouldn't it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You also have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical discipline.
• Demonstrable experience in quality engineering, design assurance, new product development and well-established NPD systems.
• Proven experience driving Continuous Improvement initiatives using Lean Six Sigma or equivalent quality methodologies
• Experience using quality and product data systems such as Minitab, PLM, ERP, or QMS platforms.
• Knowledge of APQP, PPAP, design controls, and product lifecycle management processes.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Lean Six Sigma, or similar certification.
• Effective English written and verbal communication skills

The Details

We want our company to be a place you'll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you'll get to:

Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.

Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.

Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

What's more, you'll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We're more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We're visionaries and innovators. As successful as we've been in the past, we have so much further to go. That's where you come in. Join us!

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We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you'll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We're the World's largest tool company. We're industry visionaries. We're solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art "smart factory" products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks

You'll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You'll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren't linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you'll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that's how the best work gets done. You'll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company

You'll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.