Advanced Quality Engineer

Job Description

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM

NDT Global is the leading provider of ultra-high-tech diagnostic inspection solutions, advanced data analysis and integrity assessment services for ensuring the safety and longevity of energy-sector infrastructure assets. Recognized as the forerunner in ultrasonic inspection technologies comprising Pulse Echo, Pitch-and-Catch and Phased Array, as well as Acoustic Resonance (ART Scan) methodologies, the company also deploys a range of non-ultrasonic technologies, such as Inertial Measurement Units, with more under development. NDT Global strategically applies its inspection technologies to detect, diagnose and model various types of threat—circumferential or axial cracks, metal loss, geometry, mapping, and more—across diverse classes of assets. By providing predictive, decision-ready insights driven by the world’s most accurate data, NDT Global enables the conditions for asset owners to optimize infrastructure health and drive operational efficiencies while reducing risk and minimizing their carbon footprint.

NDT Global is part of Previan, a fast-growing, innovative industrial technology group focused on advanced diagnostic technologies to monitor the world’s infrastructure health. The Group serves asset owners, large engineering firms, and service companies globally in markets such as Aerospace, Civil Infrastructures, Energy, Mining, Power Generation, and Rail. Previan believes that advancing science and technology via sensors, hardware, robotics, and software makes the world more productive and safer for people, business and nature. The company employs over 1,300 people throughout 28 offices worldwide and serves clients in more than 110 countries.

Advanced Quality Engineer

Purpose

The Senior Quality Engineer's role is to manage and control the product/technology development lifecycle to ensure adherence to design, testing, and release standards which meet and exceed customer expectations and reliability requirements.

Tasks

• Provides technical / professional advice and operational guidance to Product Development Teams and other internal stakeholders to support quality, best-practice adherence, and reliability improvements over time.
• Defines processes and requirements in selecting methods like control plans, FMEA's and other techniques which improve the quality and reliability of new technologies.
• Leads CAPA investigations for products that are not handed over to operations or quality initiatives requiring extensive R&D involvement, and actively support during implementation / handover.
• Drives Risk Management activities with cross functional teams and challenge concepts and ensures reliability is a fundamental aspect of the design.
• Monitors the execution of Verification Test Plans and actively participates in assembly and testing activities.
• Provides technical support and approval for new supplier selection to R&D projects to achieve desired quality and reliability level of product developments.
• Actively contributes to the design and definition of the Project Development Process and related Stage Gates and reviews and assesses both the quality and completeness of deliverables against this process.
• Gathers internal Customer Feedback and operational reliability statistics as input into the product development process to assure quality and reliability outputs meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Collaborates extensively with the product managers and project managers to support them actively in quality related aspects concerning their products and projects.

Requirements

• A degree in electronics or mechanics.
• Internal auditing qualification (ISO 9001) is required.
• Experience creating and leading risk management documentation such as Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Design, Process, Use/Misuse), Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis is required.
• Experience conducting Root Cause Analysis and familiarity with tools such as 8-Discipline, DMAIC, 5-Why, Fishbone Diagrams, Fault Tree Analysis, Contradiction Matrices.
• Experience with the creation and execution of testing plans (DVP&R, Trace Matrix).
• 3+ years of Quality Engineering experience in an R&D environment, preferably in Design Assurance or Product Development with mechatronic products.
• Familiarity with Measurement System Analysis or Test Method Validation.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer or Certified Reliability Engineer nice to have.
• Six Sigma Certification in Lean Design nice to have.
• Reliability experience, such as determining Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) or Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).
• Must be proficient in spoken and written English.
• Knowledge of Industry standards (e.g. API 1163, POF) strongly preferred.
• Great long-term career prospects and development opportunities.
• Challenging tasks in innovative and diverse teams.