Product Quality Engineer

KION Group; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Development

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

Pay Transparency

Global Opportunities

Job summary

KION Group is seeking a Product Quality Engineer to ensure quality from concept through launch and into production, collaborating with Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, Validation, and Quality teams.

You will drive prevention, early risk detection, and lessons learned, lead DFMEA/PFMEA and risk assessments, perform pre-milestone assessments, coordinate with R&D and Manufacturing Quality, and push for robust control plans and CAPA actions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years of professional quality experience in product, project, or engineering settings.
• Experience with APQP, DFMEA/PFMEA, PPAP, Control Plans, RCA, 8D, CAPA, validation, and launch-readiness reviews.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Product Quality representative for global product-development programs.
• Define and monitor Product Quality requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Lead product-risk activities and ensure mitigation actions are tracked.
• Perform independent pre-milestone and launch-readiness assessments.
• Coordinate launch and manufacturing-readiness with cross-functional teams.
• Support root-cause analysis and drive CAPA/8D actions.
• Transfer lessons learned to new R&D programs.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Quality engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Quality Engineering, or related technical field

Job description

The Product Quality Engineer ensures quality is built into global product-development projects from concept through launch and sustained production. Working across Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, Validation, Program Management, Project Execution, and Quality teams, this role identifies risks early, defines quality expectations, ensures effective validation, and provides an independent view of product readiness.

Focused primarily on AMCS new developments, this role drives a proactive approach to quality centered on prevention, early risk detection, and lessons learned.

At Dematic and KION, our talent is key to creating the magic of supply chain solutions. As part of a global community of communities, you’ll help orchestrate intelligent logistics that power the future of commerce. Here, you can push your career forward in an environment built on collaboration, growth, and real-world impact.

We offer:

What We Offer:

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer

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This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $84,750 - $124,300 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What You Will Do In This Role

• Serve as the Product Quality representative and Quality sub-project lead for assigned global product-development programs, coordinating quality activities, deliverables, achievements, and reporting across the required functions.
• Define, align, and monitor Product Quality requirements and measurable acceptance criteria, ensuring reliability, maintainability, serviceability, and validation expectations are established before testing begins.
• Lead or facilitate product-risk activities, including DFMEA/PFMEA and technical risk assessments, and ensure significant risks, Critical-to-Quality characteristics, and mitigation actions are detailed, owned, and tracked.
• Perform independent pre-milestone and launch-readiness assessments. Verify that required evidence supports Tollgate, Alpha/Beta, special-release, and commercialization decisions. Do not assume accountability for Engineering, Product Management, or Program Management.
• Coordinate launch and manufacturing-readiness expectations with R&D, Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, and Validation, including appropriate Control Plans, PPAP/initial-sample activities, and product ramp-up controls.
• Support structured root-cause analysis and drive targeted CAPA/8D actions for significant or systemic product and Beta issues, including verification of containment, corrective action, and efficiency.
• Prevent recurrence by transferring lessons learned from development, manufacturing, suppliers, project execution, and field performance into new R&D programs and continuously improving Product Quality methods and achievement expectations.
• Provide clear, data-based visibility of product readiness, unresolved risks, action ownership, and critical issue needs to collaborators and leadership across regions.

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Quality Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum five years of professional Quality experience in a product-, project-, or engineering-based business; experience with automated material handling or mechatronic products is preferred.
• Practical experience with product-development quality and several of the following: APQP, DFMEA/PFMEA, PPAP, Control Plans, RCA, 8D, CAPA, validation, lessons learned, and launch-readiness reviews.
• Ability to interpret engineering requirements, drawings, specifications, risk analyses, test plans, and validation evidence, and translate gaps into clear actions and needs for addressing blocking issues.
• Strong analytical capability and evidence-supported decision making, with the ability to distinguish product nonconformances from improvement opportunities.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation, presentation, and technical/business English abilities, including the capability to communicate effectively across functions and organizational levels.
• Established skill in directing and aligning work in an international matrix organization while preserving transparent accountability across Product Management, Engineering, Program Management, and Quality.
• Willingness to travel regionally up to 30%