Vacancy: Product Assurance Engineer
Location: Netherlands
Salary: Competitive DOE
Our client is looking for a Product Assurance Engineer to drive and assist their team.
For the Product Assurance Engineer role, your responsibilities will be:
* Define the project Product Assurance plan.
* You are the point of contact for customers on all quality-related aspects.
* Monitor the applicable Product Assurance requirements throughout the project execution related to the design,qualification, manufacturing, and testing of the end product.
* You are responsible for establishing and maintaining the configuration baseline, ensuring that project and product documentation is correct and complete.
* Ensure that applicable quality requirements are applied at suppliers and subcontractors, and perform reviews to validate that the manufacturing and testing of the procured items conform to these requirements.
* Supervise product inspections and tests both in-house, at suppliers and customers, ensuring the quality standards are met.
* You ensure that any deviation from the requirements is properly documented, agreed, and approved; you chair the boards that evaluate deviations and changes, and track progress through actions.
* With your team, you make End Item Data Packs and make sure all non-conformity reports are closed with the appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
* Accept broad objectives with agreed deadlines, but establish the tasks and their priority for the team.
* Capable of working independently.
* You involve and coordinate with subject experts to solve problems and to prepare the project deliverable documentation
* Assess the PA requirements in proposals
* Ensure application of company processes and best practices, and identify the need for improvements to processes, methods, and tools.
* Ensure that all tasks and activities are correctly executed within the time and allowable budget, in a way that meets the quality level required by our customers.
* You align with colleagues in the projects and with your fellow PA members to improve and check the baseline for the PA quality work.
For the Product Assurance Engineer role, you will need:
* Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace or optionally Software)
* Minimum from 3 to 5 years of experience in the Quality domain, preferably accumulated in the space sector.
* Very process-minded
* Capable of working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, both independently and collectively.
* Preferably, experience in a series production environment.
* Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, & PowerPoint) and Google Suite (GMail, Docs, Sheets, Slides) required.
* Team player demonstrating a positive & collaborative attitude
* Good interpersonal skills, flexibility, and adaptability.
* Must be able to communicate effectively in English (verbal and written)
* Conversational in Dutch is a plus, but not required.