Quality Engineer Precision Solutions

Prodrive Technologies; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based salary growth

33 vacation days per year

Time-for-time compensation for extra‑h

Growth plan and personal development

Career progression across functions

Entrepreneurial culture

Company gym access

Free lunch, dinner and healthy snacks

Job summary

Prodrive Technologies seeks an experienced Quality Engineer R&D to influence product quality from development through lifecycle of high-tech electronics, mechatronics, and related systems. You will build early quality risk pictures and collaborate across Engineering, Operations and Service to prevent issues.

You will facilitate DFMEA, translate customer requirements into CTQs, and drive lessons learned into new developments, ensuring traceability and robust quality across stages.

Qualifications

• BSc/BEng or MSc in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, Applied Physics or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in Quality Engineering, Product Development or Systems Engineering in a high-tech environment.
• Experience with complex electronic, electromechanical or mechatronic products and the interaction between design, manufacturing, test and suppliers.
• Practical experience with DFMEA, structured risk assessment, requirements and critical-characteristic management.
• Experience with structured problem solving such as 8D, 5 Why and Ishikawa, and the ability to turn corrective-action learning into preventive improvements.
• Strong quality expertise combined with the ability to understand technical discussions, identify risks across interfaces and challenge constructively.

Responsibilities

• Perform and facilitate the initial Quality Risk Assessment and determine the required Quality involvement for development projects.
• Translate customer and system expectations into clear Customer Quality Requirements, CTQs/critical characteristics and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate and challenge DFMEA activities, ensuring design risks are identified and followed up while Engineering retains ownership of technical risk content and design actions.
• Bring Lessons Learned from customer complaints, 8Ds, supplier and internal non-conformities, production, repairs and field experience into new developments.
• Represent Quality throughout the Stage Gate process, ensuring traceability between requirements, design risks, verification activities and manufacturing controls, and escalating significant unresolved risks.
• Act as the Quality interface for selected customer/product accounts, including complaints, escalations, repairs/returns and corrective-action communication.
• Support Operations, Service, Supplier Quality and Industrialization when significant product-quality issues require development knowledge, structured problem solving or cross-functional coordination.
• Identify and drive structural quality improvements across products and projects, and coach teams in quality methods and a prevention-oriented mindset.

Skills

Quality Engineering

DFMEA

Risk assessment

8D problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer interaction

Education

BSc/BEng/MSc in Electrical/Mechanical/Mechatronics

MSc or higher in a related field

Job description

Are you an experienced Quality Engineer who wants to influence product quality before problems reach production or the customer?

At Prodrive Technologies, we are looking for a Quality Engineer R&D to strengthen our Precision Solutions development teams, working on complex high-tech electronic, electromechanical and mechatronic products and systems.

As Quality Engineer R&D, your main objective is to build quality into products from the start of development and remain connected to product quality throughout the lifecycle.

Within Precision Solutions, you work in an environment where precision mechanics, electronics, motion control, optics, software and advanced manufacturing come together. You collaborate closely with System Engineering, Development, Project Management, Industrialization, Supplier Quality, Operations and Service.

You bring a structured quality perspective into technical decision-making, challenge teams to identify risks early, translate customer expectations into measurable requirements and ensure that lessons from previous products are used to prevent recurrence.

You actively contribute throughout the development Stage Gate process. You establish the initial quality-risk picture, ensure customer quality requirements and design risks are addressed, and facilitate effective use of DFMEA and Lessons Learned.

During the product lifecycle, you act as the Quality interface for selected customer and product accounts. You support Operations and Service when significant product-quality issues require technical investigation, cross-functional coordination or escalation, and ensure that customer complaints, repairs, field issues and production experience are fed back into product development.

Engineering retains ownership of technical design decisions and risks. Your role is to facilitate, challenge and connect disciplines so that quality risks are understood, decisions are supported by evidence and agreed actions are followed through. Your key responsibilities are:

Perform and facilitate the initial Quality Risk Assessment and determine the required Quality involvement for development projects.

Translate customer and system expectations into clear Customer Quality Requirements, CTQs/critical characteristics and acceptance criteria.

Facilitate and challenge DFMEA activities, ensuring design risks are identified and followed up while Engineering retains ownership of technical risk content and design actions.

Bring Lessons Learned from customer complaints, 8Ds, supplier and internal non-conformities, production, repairs and field experience into new developments.

Represent Quality throughout the Stage Gate process, ensuring traceability between requirements, design risks, verification activities and manufacturing controls, and escalating significant unresolved risks.

Act as the Quality interface for selected customer/product accounts, including complaints, escalations, repairs/returns and corrective-action communication.

Support Operations, Service, Supplier Quality and Industrialization when significant product-quality issues require development knowledge, structured problem solving or cross-functional coordination.

Identify and drive structural quality improvements across products and projects, and coach teams in quality methods and a prevention-oriented mindset.

What we offer

Performance-based salary growth that rewards your results

33 vacation days per year, including public holidays

Time-for-time compensation when working extra hours

Strong focus on personal development, supported by a tailored growth and learning plan

Extensive career opportunities, with progression across a wide range of functions and projects

A young, entrepreneurial, and innovative company culture where initiative is encouraged

Free access to the company gym

Free lunch, dinner and healthy snacks available every day on-site

What you bring

BSc, BEng or MSc in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, Applied Physics or a related technical field.

5+ years of relevant experience in Quality Engineering, Product Development or Systems Engineering in a high-tech environment.

Experience with complex electronic, electromechanical or mechatronic products and the interaction between design, manufacturing, test and suppliers.

Practical experience with DFMEA, structured risk assessment, requirements and critical-characteristic management.

Experience with structured problem solving such as 8D, 5 Why and Ishikawa, and the ability to turn corrective-action learning into preventive improvements.

Strong quality expertise combined with the ability to understand technical discussions, identify risks across interfaces and challenge constructively.

Ability to influence experienced engineers and stakeholders without formal authority and to bring structure to complex or ambiguous situations.

Comfortable interacting directly with customers and internal stakeholders on quality requirements, complaints and escalations.

Yes, I would like to share my information in the talent pool. By doing so, I consent to being notified about future job openings and opportunities within your organization.

Develop your career at Prodrive Technologies. Explore our vacancies and take the next step in your professional journey.