KION Group

Product Quality Engineer

In short

This role builds quality into global product-development programs from concept through launch and sustained production, focused primarily on AMCS new developments, working across Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, Validation, Program Management, and Quality teams. The company is Dematic/KION, a supply-chain and intelligent-logistics solutions provider. It demands at least five years of Quality experience with tools such as APQP, DFMEA/PFMEA, PPAP, Control Plans, RCA, 8D, and CAPA, plus the ability to lead risk assessments and launch-readiness reviews in an international matrix organization, with up to 30% regional travel.

About the Role
The Product Quality Engineer ensures quality is built into global product-development projects from concept through launch and sustained production. Working across Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, Validation, Program Management, Project Execution, and Quality teams, this role identifies risks early, defines quality expectations, ensures effective validation, and provides an independent view of product readiness.
Focused primarily on AMCS new developments, this role drives a proactive approach to quality centered on prevention, early risk detection, and lessons learned.
What We Offer
•Career Development
•Competitive Compensation and Benefits
•Pay Transparency
•Global Opportunities
The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $84,750 - $124,300 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
What You Will Do In This Role
•Serve as the Product Quality representative and Quality sub-project lead for assigned global product-development programs, coordinating quality activities, deliverables, achievements, and reporting across the required functions.
•Define, align, and monitor Product Quality requirements and measurable acceptance criteria, ensuring reliability, maintainability, serviceability, and validation expectations are established before testing begins.
•Lead or facilitate product-risk activities, including DFMEA/PFMEA and technical risk assessments, and ensure significant risks, Critical-to-Quality characteristics, and mitigation actions are detailed, owned, and tracked.
•Perform independent pre-milestone and launch-readiness assessments. Verify that required evidence supports Tollgate, Alpha/Beta, special-release, and commercialization decisions. Do not assume accountability for Engineering, Product Management, or Program Management.
•Coordinate launch and manufacturing-readiness expectations with R&D, Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, and Validation, including appropriate Control Plans, PPAP/initial-sample activities, and product ramp-up controls.
•Support structured root-cause analysis and drive targeted CAPA/8D actions for significant or systemic product and Beta issues, including verification of containment, corrective action, and efficiency.
•Prevent recurrence by transferring lessons learned from development, manufacturing, suppliers, project execution, and field performance into new R&D programs and continuously improving Product Quality methods and achievement expectations.
•Provide clear, data-based visibility of product readiness, unresolved risks, action ownership, and critical issue needs to collaborators and leadership across regions.
What We Are Looking For
•Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Quality Engineering, or a related technical field.
•Minimum five years of professional Quality experience in a product-, project-, or engineering-based business; experience with automated material handling or mechatronic products is preferred.
•Practical experience with product-development quality and several of the following: APQP, DFMEA/PFMEA, PPAP, Control Plans, RCA, 8D, CAPA, validation, lessons learned, and launch-readiness reviews.
•Ability to interpret engineering requirements, drawings, specifications, risk analyses, test plans, and validation evidence, and translate gaps into clear actions and needs for addressing blocking issues.
•Strong analytical capability and evidence-supported decision making, with the ability to distinguish product nonconformances from improvement opportunities.
•Strong interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation, presentation, and technical/business English abilities, including the capability to communicate effectively across functions and organizational levels.
•Established skill in directing and aligning work in an international matrix organization while preserving transparent accountability across Product Management, Engineering, Program Management, and Quality.
•Willingness to travel regionally up to 30%.

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