Senior Project Engineer

Danfoss GmbH; Quer; On-site; EUR 27,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13th salary

Annual bonus

Pension plans

Personal insurance

Job summary

Danfoss is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to drive quality into new products, processes, and changes from early stages. You will act as the voice of Quality within cross-functional teams to ensure launches meet customer expectations and manufacturing readiness.

You will collaborate with Project Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, and Quality across local and global sites, shaping robust, standardized processes and ensuring compliance with ISO and IATF standards while enabling

Qualifications

• Requires a technical degree and hands-on experience in project engineering within manufacturing.
• Experience applying APQP/PPAP and quality planning tools in launches or transfers.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional/multicultural teams and manage stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Advanced Product Quality Planning for new product development, transfers, and changes.
• Coordinate PPAP submissions, launch-readiness reviews, and quality gates.
• Identify risks, coordinate mitigations, and drive structured problem solving and corrective actions.
• Represent Quality in cross-functional teams, supporting prototype builds, validation, and manufacturing readiness.
• Support ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 compliance and audit-readiness initiatives.

Skills

Project management

Quality planning

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Quality Engineering

Tools

APQP

PPAP

PFMEA

MSA

GD&T

Job description

Segment: Danfoss Power Solutions Segment

Job Category: Project Management

Work Location Type: On-site

Job Experience Level: Mid-Senior level

Senior Project Engineer

Req ID: 52060 Job Location: Quertaro, MX Employment Type: Full Time Segment: Danfoss Power Solutions Segment Job Category: Project Management Work Location Type: On-site Job Experience Level: Mid-Senior level Job Description

As our Senior Project Engineer, you’ll play a key role in ensuring quality is built into new products, manufacturing processes, product transfers, and engineering changes from the earliest stages. Acting as the voice of Quality within cross-functional project teams, you’ll help drive successful product and process launches that meet customer expectations and strengthen manufacturing readiness.

At Danfoss, you’ll have opportunities to strengthen your technical and project leadership capabilities while collaborating with multicultural teams in an inclusive environment that values continuous learning, professional growth, well-being, and different perspectives.

Your impact? You’ll help reduce launch risks, improve product quality, accelerate project execution, and ensure critical Advanced Product Quality Planning deliverables are completed effectively. Your contribution will support customer satisfaction, operational excellence, business growth, and the successful introduction of new products and manufacturing processes.

You’ll collaborate with Project Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Quality, and other local and global stakeholders, influencing results across teams and helping us create more robust, standardized, efficient, and customer-focused manufacturing processes.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead Advanced Product Quality Planning activities for new product development, product transfers, and engineering changes, including special characteristics, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, control plans, measurement system analysis, customer-specific requirements, and early production containment.
• Coordinate plant-level Production Part Approval Process submissions, launch-readiness reviews, project quality gates, and approval activities to support successful product and process introductions.
• Identify project and manufacturing risks, coordinate mitigation plans, elevate critical concerns, and support structured problem-solving and corrective-action activities.
• Represent the Quality function within cross-functional project teams, collaborating with local and global stakeholders on project planning, prototype builds, manufacturing prove-outs, process validation, and manufacturing readiness.
• Support continuous improvement and audit-readiness initiatives while helping ensure alignment with applicable quality, environmental, health, and safety management systems, including ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Quality Engineering, or another relevant technical field.
• Experience supporting manufacturing processes, product launches, project engineering, quality planning, product transfers, or industrialization activities within a manufacturing environment.
• Practical knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, MSA, GD&T, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• The ability to lead and influence cross-functional and multicultural teams, including stakeholders outside a direct reporting relationship.
• Professional English communication skills, combined with strong project planning, time management, negotiation, decision-making, and stakeholder-management capabilities.

What You'll Get from Us

We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.

You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected and valued for who they are.

You’ll receive benefits like 13th salary, annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about. We think they’re pretty great.

Our Commitment to Transparency

Salary ranges listed reflect only primary location and currency. For local salary ranges and specific benefits in your preferred hiring location, please ask your Talent Acquisition representative for more information.

The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Any benefits listed do not promise or guarantee any particular benefit or specific action. They may depend on country or contract specifics and are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.

Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.

Our solutions are used in areas such as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, marine, and on- and off-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for data centers, renewable energy, energy storage, heat recovery, as well as contribute to district energy solutions for cities.

Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned and employs over 39,000 people. We create long-term value for our customers in more than 100 countries with a global footprint of around 100 factories.