Manufacturing Engineer - Quality Tools & Lean Six Sigma

Xsens; Enschede; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 paid vacation days

Tax perks for memberships and bicycle

Flexible working hours

Work from home option

Volunteer time with Stichting Present

Fresh fruit in the office

Access to financial planner

Company social events

Job summary

Xsens is a leading high‑tech manufacturer seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to bridge Engineering and Operations. You will develop and maintain tools that assure the quality of production methods, setting up automated tests and reporting with internal teams and partners.

You will work with Hardware Engineers to update QA protocols and production methods, tracing quality risks early to inform development. Based in Enschede, NL, you will engage Operations, Engineering, and partners to reduce

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering & Management, Electronics, Mechatronics or related.
• Diagnostic Information Gathering
• Affiliation with statistics and willing to apply for Lean Green belt
• Knowledge on Lean Six Sigma
• Interest in Quality Assurance and improvement
• 1 - 3 years’ experience as Process/Manufacturing Engineer
• Result driven, proactive and conscientious personality
• Excellent communication skills in both Dutch and English

Responsibilities

• Conduct (D)FMEA and root cause analysis for projects.
• Collect data from reports and tests to identify trends and issues.
• Develop and implement test tooling for the production environment.
• Implement changes to quality processes to reduce defects.
• Actively follows-up as and when required on manufacturer interactions/evaluations/feedback.
• Actively searches for opportunities to reduce the yield loss and lower production costs.
• Apply SPC and develop new quality tools.
• Supports the Field Application Engineer with RMA’s and customer support.
• Become an active project team member to represent manufacturing.

Skills

Diagnostics information gathering

Statistics awareness

Lean Six Sigma

Quality assurance

Dutch & English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering & Management, Electronics, Mechatronics or related

Job description

Xsens is a leading high‑tech manufacturer seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to bridge Engineering and Operations. You will develop and maintain tools that assure the quality of production methods, setting up automated tests and reporting with internal teams and partners.

You will work with Hardware Engineers to update QA protocols and production methods, tracing quality risks early to inform development. Based in Enschede, NL, you will engage Operations, Engineering, and partners to reduce