Project Quality Leader

Schneider Electric; Veneto; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance

Paid time off

Parental and care leave

Flexible work options

Job summary

Schneider Electric’s Cooling unit seeks a Project Quality Engineer in Conselve, Italy to identify and mitigate product quality risks during development. You will bridge customer requirements with design teams, drive DFMEA/PFMEA activities, and ensure all quality deliverables are deployed across the project lifecycle.

You will collaborate with R&D and cross-functional teams in a highly matrixed environment, ensuring timely issue resolution and adherence to quality goals for factory production and

Qualifications

• Bridge between customer requirements, field issues, and the design teams.
• Provide customer requirements, quality goals, and historical lessons learned.
• Escalate important project issues potentially impacting Customer Satisfaction.
• Ensure open actions are closed with mitigation plans for production.
• Ensure completion of key quality tasks at each project stage gate review.
• Collaborate with R&D for DFMEA and CTQ definitions.
• Deploy quality deliverables (PFMEA, PQCP, PPEP, CQCP).

Responsibilities

• Identify and mitigate product quality risks during development.
• Work in a matrix organization with technical professionals.
• Lead quality engineering activities and ensure compliance with standards.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Quality systems

Cross-functional teamwork

DFMEA

PFMEA

PPEP

R&D collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Process mapping

8D process

DFMEA

PFMEA

PPEP

Quality deliverables (CQCP, PQCP)

Job description

Schneider Electric’s Cooling Business Unit is passionate about helping our customers meet their Datacenter Cooling needs. In this position, the Project Quality Engineer is responsible for identifying and eliminating product quality risks during the development process that can impact customer satisfaction and quality. The Project Quality Engineer must collaborate with their SE colleagues to understand, mitigate and eliminate these risks during the product development cycle to assure the highest levels of product quality. This position requires an engineer with strong systems knowledge, solid communication and issue management skills, and the ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organization comprised of technical professionals.

Requirements:

• Make the bridge between customer requirements, field issues, and the design teams to ensure field quality issues are properly understood and addressed. (Prevent, not React)
• Provide customer requirements, quality goals, and historical lessons learned to the project team.
• Escalate important project issues potentially impacting the Customer Satisfaction.
• Ensure that all open actions from the project have been properly closed or mitigation plans are in place to support production
• Ensure completion of key tasks related to quality at each project stage gate review
• Work Closely with R&D for DFMEA completion, follow up actions plan for reaching the Target RPN matrix and Define CTQs.
• Ensure deploy all the quality deliverables (PFMEA, Quality Control Plan (PQCP), PPEP, Component Quality Control Plan (CQCP)…)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering discipline is required, and 3+ years of relevant experience is preferred.
• A proven record of problem solving, excellent communication skills, quality systems, operating systems, networking systems, methodologies and tools for solving system level issues, and manufacturing operations experience is preferred.
• Experience in handling multiple problems and working on cross-functional project teams is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence at all levels of Schneider Electric is preferred..
• Experience with quality engineering tools and practices is preferred: process mapping, 8D process, DFMEA, PFMEA, PPEP, etc.
• Must be self-motivated, have good interpersonal skills, capable of analyzing and solving complex problems through innovative thought and risk analysis approached.
• Position to be located in Conselve, Italy

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