SQA Engineer/ QE Engineer

Company: Canon Production Printing

Are you a team player who enjoys working on the quality of incoming and outgoing raw materials and products? Can we challenge you to initiate actions and innovate processes to increase efficiency within our factory? Then we are looking for you!

Supplier Quality Engineer

What you’ll do

As a Quality Engineer, you are responsible for the quality of incoming raw materials and outgoing products. You maintain quality-related contact with our suppliers and set up a quality assurance organization for items such as inks, toners, or print heads.

You develop qualification methods together with R&D and transfer these procedures to production. This includes monitoring progress, interpreting data, and analyzing quality loss so it can be assigned to a design team. The development and execution of the qualification take place in parallel. As measurements become industrialized and more parts are produced, the focus will shift to analyzing quality loss and supporting the design team in finding the root cause. Examples of tasks include:

• Selecting, visiting, and auditing suppliers and ensuring they deliver according to the specified requirements
• Supporting/implementing alternative raw materials and associated measurement methods
• Convincing your R&D colleagues to arrive at feasible product specifications
• Supporting product introductions
• Updating/replacing measurement equipment
• Systematically solving problems using (for example) the 8D method with a multidisciplinary team to find root causes
• Updating knowledge regarding all measurement methods and reviewing operator training documentation

This vacancy is located in Venlo, Limburg.

Who you’ll work with

The QA team is responsible for product quality, ensuring control plans/measurements, and supporting design engineers in defining specifications and root cause analyses. A typical QA team consists of about 5 people with an engineering or analytical background.

What you bring

We are looking for a team player who is well aware of the responsibilities that come with this role. You take initiative, perform follow-up measurements and analyses where possible, and know exactly when to involve other project members. Additionally, you meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field, Chemistry, Physics, or similar. Preferably a few years of experience in a similar role; depending on experience and education level, the starting position may vary
• Someone who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary and dynamic environment
• Affinity with measurement methods and systems
• Experience with (chemical) suppliers
• Willingness to travel regularly for supplier visits
• Experience/affinity with quality management systems and audits
• A customer-oriented mindset
• Good command of the English language, both spoken and written. Dutch is a strong plus; you must at least be willing to learn the language.

What You’ll Get From Us

We offer you a job in which you will have the opportunity to help think about improving existing production and designing quality processes of the future. A versatile job and environment where your contribution is indispensable for a smooth running production. You will work in a high-tech environment with a global scope and a wide variety of end products such as inks, toners and print heads.

In addition to this challenging work environment and room for personal and professional development, you will receive an interesting package of conditions:

• A competitive salary (range €3,700- €6,100 gross per month)
• 38 vacation days
• Extra 13th month pay (8.6%), holiday allowance (8%) and commuting allowance
• Hybrid working for a healthy work-life balance
• A huge range of training and professional development opportunities
• A laptop and smartphone
• An interesting lease (e-)bike plan

Career opportunities

From the position of Quality Engineer you can develop yourself in multiple ways. You can become an expert on Quality related issues and grow towards senior or team lead positions, but you can also grow towards other departments, for example Process Engineering or Equipment Engineering.

What do we stand for?

We develop and manufacture high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market as part of Canon, a global leader in imaging technologies. With around 3,300 employees across three continents and our headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, we innovate to create high-quality solutions that add color to the world. Guided by the philosophy of Kyosei—living and working together for the common good—our culture is built on openness, collegiality, trust and stability. We empower our people to grow, take initiative, and make an impact.

With our company values collaboration, innovation and ownership, we strive to bring out the best in each other, expand boundaries and feel empowered to take ownership of our work.