Are you passionate about embedding quality into every stage of product development — from early innovation through to customer delivery? Then join us in our mission to pioneer smarter solutions for moving and transforming water, reducing energy consumption, and enhancing quality of life for people.
As our new Chief Quality Engineer, you will be driving quality excellence across products, systems, and platform architectures by championing reliability methods, sharpening quality requirements, and enabling cross-functional teams to deliver on the quality promises we make to our customers.
What you will be doing
As a key part of the QBS - Product Development Quality team, you'll create impact by Strengthening the foundation of quality across Grundfos Product Development by integrating quality requirements into Model-based Systems Engineering and ensuring our products consistently meet — and exceed — customer expectations.
Your main responsibilities include:
- Carry out safety risk assessments and evaluations for the full Grundfos group
- Point of contact for our technology projects for tailoring of relevant Quality activities to fit the specific project needs
- Drive initiatives on how to improve Grundfos capabilities within design and development of robust and reliable products and solutions
- Promote and deploy methods and tools within Design for Reliability & Robustness, driving best practices across product development teams
- Frontload quality into Technology and Innovation processes, acting as Quality Assurance advisor for process updates and sharpening customer requirements into measurable specifications
- Manage and deploy strategic initiatives within Product Development Quality, including maturing quality data and reporting on Quality KPIs to stakeholders at all levels
- Drive Verification and Validation activities to lift quality results, and act as a Process Improvement Team member or as driver of specific Quality Assurance processes, methods, and tools
- Enable teams and the broader organisation to set profitable quality requirements based on business needs and market feedback through coaching, communication, and knowledge sharing
What makes you a great fit
Above all, you are a team player with the ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams at all organisational levels. Besides this, you are an analytical and systematic quality professional with excellent communication skills.
We would also imagine that you have:
- Technical background such as e.g. electrical engineering or other relevant education
- Strong experience in quality engineering within product development, with deep expertise in Design for Reliability, robustness methods, Risk assessment and Quality Requirements Management
- Ability to work with Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or concurrent engineering approaches, integrating quality requirements into technical architecture
- Strong track record of driving cross-functional quality initiatives and communicating quality status, trade-offs, and recommendations to developers, managers, and top management
- Willingness to be present at our headquarters in Bjerringbro, Denmark 2-3 days per week. We are open to candidates from other countries, but you must be open to relocation.
Why you will love working here
We care! Day to day, you can look forward to:
- A working environment built around your needs, with flexible hours, home working opportunities and parental support.
- Annual bonuses, health insurance and a strong focus on well-being activities.
- Three days' additional paid leave for volunteering in your community.
- Access to on-demand training and learning sessions and carefully structured programmes to pursue personal and professional development opportunities.
We are inclusive! Celebrating and valuing our differences helps us see possibilities where others can't. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all abilities, experiences, and backgrounds.
Are you ready to unlock possibilities at Grundfos? Apply today!
If you have questions or would like to know more about this position, please contact hiring manager Henrik Hjortkjær at hhjortkjaer@grundfos.com.
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