Quality Engineer (m/f/d) Full Time NEW

• Preventing quality issues in mass production (zero-defect strategy).
• Ensuring on-time deliveries and compliance with technical standards.
• Continuously improving supplier performance

Tasks And Responsibilities

• Preventive Quality Assurance: Ensuring the quality of purchased parts as early as the development phase, including concept review and maturity assessment.
• Supplier Management: Selection, qualification, and development of suppliers (domestic/international), as well as conducting process audits (e.g., according to VDA 6.3).
• Sampling & Approval: Handling the sampling process (PPAP/VDA 2) for new parts and approving parts in accordance with requirements and specifications.
• Complaint Management: Analysis of purchased part defects (8D report), initiation of corrective actions with the supplier, and monitoring their effectiveness. Including determination of further handling of defective or suspected defective components
• Risk assessment: in case of deviations
• Interface function: Close collaboration with Purchasing, Development (Engineering), and Production to optimize the supply chain.
• Monitoring: of KPIs as part of the continuous improvement process
• Data analysis: Evaluation and preparation of statistics.

Requirements And Qualifications

• Education: A successfully completed technical degree (mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, or similar) or a comparable qualification (technician/master craftsman) with relevant experience.
• Professional experience: Several years of experience in quality management, ideally in the field of purchased parts management or in the automotive industry.
• Technical expertise: Knowledge of quality methods (APQP, FMEA, VDA 6.3, PPAP, CONTROL PLAN), reading drawings, and regulatory requirements (ISO 9001).
• IT proficiency: Very strong experience with Excel, SharePoint, and ERP systems
• QKT: Thinking and acting based on quality, cost, and schedule
• Process-oriented thinking: Holistic thinking and action based on the process chain
• Continuous improvement: Identifying potential for improvement within your own area of responsibility and along the process chain, and implementing these improvements
• Willingness to travel for supplier visits
• Assertiveness
• Strong communication skills and business-level proficiency in German (C2) and English (C1)
• Enthusiasm for technical detail
• Distinctly methodical and systematic approach to work
• At least 3–5 years of professional experience as a Quality Engineer (m/f/d)
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

What Can You Expect

• An interesting job with a varied range of tasks in a dynamic high-tech company
• An international team made up of more than 20 different nationalities
• Individual further training programmes
• Pension scheme with employer contribution
• 30 days holiday
• Employee benefits / employee events
• Free fresh fruit, muesli, yoghurts, coffee, tea and water

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