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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What will you do?
As Production Team Leader, you lead a team of approximately 15 to 20 employees, supported by one or two foremen. You ensure that production proceeds according to plan and that your department performs optimally. You maintain an overview, adjust where necessary, and ensure that employees can perform their work safely and efficiently. In doing so, you communicate continuously with other departments such as logistics, purchasing, assembly, and quality to quickly resolve disruptions and ensure progress. Additionally, you are responsible for daily personnel management and actively contribute to improvements within the production process. Furthermore, your daily activities include:
Who are you?
You are a natural leader who knows how to get people on board and dares to take responsibility. You maintain an overview, think ahead, and remain calm when the schedule is under pressure. Thanks to your technical insight and practical attitude, you know how to quickly get to the core of a problem and find appropriate solutions. Do you already have experience within the construction, wood, or manufacturing industry? Then that will help you to more quickly understand processes, challenges, and activities within our production environment. If you have previously worked with systems such as SAP, MES, Q-Gate or similar software, or have experience with modular construction solutions, that is a plus. In any case, you recognize yourself in the following points:
At VDL Smart Spaces, you will receive a lot of responsibility and the freedom to carry out your role in your own way. You are visibly present on the shop floor, have influence on daily production, and play an important role in further improving our processes. You will work together with committed colleagues in an informal and no-nonsense working environment where achieving results and enjoying work go hand in hand. In addition, we like to invest in your development and offer opportunities to grow within the organization.
Are you the Production Team Leader who maintains an overview, motivates people, and continuously seeks improvement? Then we would like to meet you.
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.
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