Lead Quality Engineer
The role As Lead Quality Engineer, you are responsible for driving and ensuring quality improvements within the organization.
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This job advert was originally written in Dutch.
A salary between € 3,390 and € 3,990 gross per month based on full-time employment
A full-time position of 40 hours per week
Flexible start times
Plenty of opportunities to further develop yourself through education and training
Growth opportunities within the field, for example towards the position of Quality Engineer
Working in an informal and engaged work environment
Colleagues who are there for one another and successes that are celebrated together
40 days off per year
The role
As a Quality Technician, you are responsible for monitoring, ensuring, and improving quality within our organization. You work closely with colleagues from production, engineering, and other departments to prevent deviations and continuously improve processes.
In this role, you are regularly present on the shop floor. You address colleagues regarding quality deviations, provide advice, and propose solutions. This requires a strong personality, good communication skills, and the ability to form a well-founded judgment based on facts. Even when that is not always the answer someone wants to hear. No two days are the same. One day you are busy with inspections and releases on the production floor, while the next day you are analyzing quality data or working together with colleagues on an improvement project.
Furthermore, you will be involved in:
You are curious, critical, and dare to give a clear judgment based on facts. You enjoy switching between different departments and are not afraid to address colleagues when quality demands it.
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If you like working in a small team and want to ensure the quality of our products and processes together with your colleagues, then we look forward to receiving your application!
At VDL Groep, we believe in personal contact with our candidates. Therefore, we handle the recruitment and selection for this vacancy ourselves and only make use of selected recruitment partners with whom agreements have been made. Do we receive an unsolicited CV via this vacancy anyway? Then we will treat this as a direct application from the candidate. This does not create any mediation or placement agreement. Thank you for your understanding and interest in VDL Groep.
The strength of VDL
At VDL Smart Spaces, you will join an organization where quality, collaboration, and development are central. You will receive a lot of responsibility and the space to think along about improvements within the organization. Because you become part of a small quality team, you have a direct influence on the quality of our products and processes. Additionally, you will get the opportunity to further develop yourself within the field and grow along with the ambitions of the organization.
You will receive a varied role in which you switch between the production floor, meetings, and data analyses. You are not just busy with inspecting, but precisely also with improving. Do you have ideas to make processes smarter, more efficient, or better? Then you will get the space here to actually get to work on them. This makes this position interesting for someone who likes to have influence and wants to see visible results from his or her work.
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