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Senior Design Quality Engineer – Products & Systems

Location Best, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands Job Type Full time Job Id 544241 Posted Date: 07/08/2025

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Job Title

Senior Design Quality Engineer – Products & Systems

Job Description

In this role you have the opportunity to define and drive Quality and Reliability targets for IGT Systems medical products, ensuring they meet high-performance standards and reliability expectations. Provide expert guidance and coaching to project teams, offering strategic insights on quality and reliability engineering. Work closely with post-market teams to gather insights from fielded products and collaborate with R&D to implement design improvements that enhance product quality.

Your role:

• Drive and oversee the holistic strategy for patient and user safety, quality, and reliability, ensuring confidence in product and service performance before market release.

• Guide and support R&D teams in driving and implementing the design control processes and best practices from across the industry. Wok with the subject matter experts and process owners to improve the processes where required.

• Work with the R&D teams on developing the requirements, test strategies (including statistical sampling methods) and traceability requirements – including usability, reliability, performance, safety and quality

• Provide strategic oversight of Quality Plan execution, risk management activities, and all design-related processes throughout the product lifecycle.

• Lead quality-related problem-solving initiatives, addressing challenges proactively.

• Serve as the subject matter expert for project teams and business functions, advising on Design Control processes and ensuring all design quality requirements meet standards at every project milestone.

You’re the right fit if:

• Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Science, or a related field.

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in quality engineering, design quality or reliability engineering. Prior experience in R&D is an added advantage.

• Proven experience working within highly regulated environments, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Skilled in utilizing various analytical and data-driven tools to support quality and reliability processes.

• Strong expertise in risk management and FMEA activities (preferred).

• DfSS Green Belt or Black Belt certification is a plus.

• Strong ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams while effectively engaging and influencing senior-level stakeholders to drive strategic alignment and decision-making.

• Excellent communication skills, problem solving skills and coaching skills.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For this office-based team, it means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

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• Location Best, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands Category Quality & Regulatory Job Type Full time