Job Description:

Function Context: The Quality Engineer is responsible for initiating, formulating, and implementing quality projects within the set budgets, planning, and compliance. This person acts as the point of contact throughout the entire project, advises on quality tools, and assists in solving complex problems. The Quality Engineer ensures planning and monitoring, maintains frequent contact with both internal and external parties, and sets up project teams. This person provides operational leadership to multidisciplinary project teams and reports to the Quality Manager.

Result Areas:

Project Initiation and Formulation: Initiates and formulates projects based on quality analyses, internal and/or external complaints, changing laws and regulations, corporate objectives, signals from the organization, and any mitigation of business risks. Prepares project plans and organizes the allocation and distribution of tasks within the project team. Acts as the first point of contact for escalations. Project Monitoring: Ensures that project phases are completed in the correct order, monitors project progress regarding quality, completeness, and planning, prepares project risk analyses, periodically discusses progress and planning with the project team, provides feedback on any deviations, and ensures complete documentation and periodic reporting. Coordination and Delivery: Ensures proper coordination and delivery of information to external parties, performs the final handover of the project to the client, ensures internal handover within the organization, and reports quality issues back to the internal organization. Problem Solving & Advice: Conducts root cause analyses and develops corrective measures. Advises on quality tools and methodologies (FMEA, SPC, Lean Six Sigma, CTQ, PPAP). Quality Improvement: Compiles and presents quality improvement steps to management, guides a multidisciplinary (sub)team, motivates the team to achieve goals, and promotes problem-solving tools (RCCM, etc.) within the organization. Improvement Initiatives: Identifies improvement opportunities regarding work procedures and processes, translates these into initiatives aimed at optimization, and implements strategic objectives. Data Analysis and Reporting: Monitors KPIs and analyzes quality data. Prepares reports and proposals for improvement actions.

Knowledge: Higher professional education (HBO+) level, knowledge of project management related to quality projects, knowledge of Lean & Six Sigma techniques, holder of a Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Green or Black Belt or equivalent practical experience, team player with leadership skills, stress-resistant, independent, proactive, and proficient in English both spoken and written.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Pentair is an Equal Opportunity Employer. With our expanding global presence, cross-cultural insight and competence are essential for our ongoing success. We believe that a diverse workforce contributes different perspectives and creative ideas that enable us to continue to improve every day.