Design Quality Specialist
Ljubljana, SI
Job Description
Danfoss is proud to be at the forefront of driving a global transformation in digital and electric solutions that increase productivity and energy efficiency. We are truly passionate about investment, and innovation, as we continue to support our customers' journey towards a greener and lower-carbon future.
Our Hydronics team are proud to design, develop, and take to market a class-leading portfolio of Hydronic systems and intelligent products covering District Energy to Building Solutions, and we now have an exciting new opportunity to join this team, and play a leading part in our ongoing journey to develop more energy-optimized and IoT connected products.
This role is a for a highly skilled Design Quality Specialist to drive the Quality Reliability in our product development projects in Danfoss Hydronics. In this role, you will be part of a development team to ensure the Voice of Customer and product reliability overall. You will collaborate closely with an international cross-functional team, including design engineers, quality engineers, and product managers, to ensure that our brand value is sustained for our products. Design Quality Specialist will join our development projects for our electronic and software-based and digital portfolio within Hydronics division.
This role will be based at our office in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and will require a small amount of travel (typically 5-10 days per year).
Job Responsibilities
As Design Quality Specialist, you will hold responsibility for:
- Facilitating the Design Quality process within Product Development Teams, meaning guiding the team through FMEA process as facilitator to ensure Voice of Customers and design quality target for our products.
- Accountability for signing of the major deliverables as Customer Requirement Specifications and Product Specifications, and following up to ensure these are updated throughout the project life cycle.
- Developing the quality maturity throughout the project, assessing and validating product tests and test scope coverage.
- Monitoring and documenting the progress of different deliverables within the milestone development model, and ensuring visibility of recommended, but still missing tasks.
- Sharing learnings and best practice from the different development projects across an internal network of Design Quality Specialists and other peers
- Building awareness within the HydronicS RD&E organization, and beyond, on the APQP practices and tools.
Background & Skills
To thrive in this role as Design Quality Specialist, we would expect you to demonstrate:
- Bachelors or Masters degree qualification in Mechanical Engineering, alternatively Electronics, Mechatronics, Software Engineering or similar relevant discipline.
- Preferably experience within an R&D-oriented organization, where you have demonstrated the ability, personality, interest and will to drive FMEA processes, ensuring high quality of branded products.
- Demonstrable knowledge and practical experience using a suite of quality tools, including APQP, FMEA, CRS, PS, PTAP etc.
- An ability to influence and use your good negotiation skills to win buy-in from management on ideas and concepts.
- Fluency in English (both written and spoken).
- A strong working knowledge of quality management standards, including IATF16949, ISO9001, and EN17025.
You need to be comfortable in working within a global and multicultural organization with a changing environment. You as well have an ability to build, foster, and leverage positive stakeholder relationships across all levels to ensure Danfoss quality vision is clearly communicated, understood and implemented correctly.
At Danfoss, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a broader perspective in decision-making. When you consider this job posting, do you feel like your profile is not a perfect match? Numerous studies have found that women and people of color are more likely to apply only when they meet all requirements listed in the job posting. Even if you do not check all the boxes, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are curious to find out how you can bring new insights to the role or to Danfoss as an organization.
Employee Benefits
We offer an international environment, where you will cooperate with colleagues from different departments and countries, mainly Denmark, but can cover participation in projects globally. An opportunity to be a part of big development projects for instance for Data centers around the world.
You will receive a comprehensive onboarding, and all necessary training will be provided during the initial months. If you are eager to learn and enhance your skills, our challenges and dynamic environment offer the ideal opportunity for professional growth.
We are excited to offer you the following benefits with your employment:
- Bonus system
- Paid vacation
- Flexible working hours
- Possibility to work remotely
- Pension plan
- Personal insurance
- Communication package
- Opportunity to join Employee Resource Groups
- State of the art virtual work environment
- Employee Referral Program
Danfoss – Engineering Tomorrow
At Danfoss, we are engineering solutions that allow the world to use resources in smarter ways - driving the sustainable transformation of tomorrow. No transformation has ever been started without a group of passionate, dedicated and empowered people. We believe that inovation and great results are driven by the right mix of people with diverse backgrounds, personalities, skills, and perspectives, reflecting the world in which we do business. To make sure the mix of people works, we strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are treated equally, respected, and valued for who they are. It is a strong priority within Danfoss to improve the health, working environment and safety of our employees.
Following our founder’s mindset “action speaks louder than words”, we set ourselves ambitious targets to protect the environment by embarking on a plan to become CO2 neutral latest by 2030.
Danfoss is an EO employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.