NPD Design Assurance Quality Engineer – Remote Europe

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

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.