Operations Quality Engineer to Västerås 🔍

Wrknest is looking for an Operations Quality Engineer on behalf of a client. In this role, you will support the Operations Quality Manager with quality expertise to ensure and continuously improve quality throughout the production processes.

You will work both operationally and strategically, monitoring quality performance, analysing deviations and identifying opportunities for improvement. The role involves close collaboration with Production, Supplier Quality, R&D and Production Engineering. You will also initiate and drive Lean Six Sigma activities aimed at reducing scrap, rework and other quality-related issues.

This is a role for someone who enjoys working close to production, where several challenges may need attention at the same time. You will have the opportunity to work throughout the improvement process, from data analysis and root cause investigation to implementation and follow-up of corrective actions.

As an Operations Quality Engineer, you will have a broad role within quality assurance and continuous improvement. You will analyse quality performance, drive improvement activities together with relevant stakeholders and ensure that identified issues are translated into effective actions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring, analysing and reporting quality parameters from production

• Initiating and driving Lean Six Sigma activities and improvement projects

• Identifying opportunities for improvement related to areas such as scrap and rework

• Performing root cause analyses and reporting identified issues to R&D and Production Engineering

• Managing and following up deviations in SAP

• Supporting Production, Supplier Quality, R&D and other relevant functions in quality-related matters

• Initiating and driving production and delivery stops when required from a quality perspective

• Supporting Production Engineering in developing PFMEA and Control Plans

• Actively participating in the Andon process

• Performing internal audits

• Leading Continuous Improvement activities

• Supporting managers with quality-related training and education of personnel

• Supporting Customer Product Support

• Participating in production-related projects

To succeed in this role, you have a solid understanding of quality management in a production environment and practical experience with established quality tools and improvement methodologies.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge and practical experience in quality management tools and methodologies

• Practical experience with Lean Six Sigma

• Knowledge of APQP

• Experience working with Control Plans

• Experience working with PFMEA

You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are comfortable handling several issues in parallel while maintaining focus on long-term improvements. Since the role involves collaboration across different functions as well as contact with suppliers and end customers, you communicate clearly and can adapt your approach to different stakeholders. You demonstrate integrity in your work and are comfortable driving quality-related topics forward when different perspectives and priorities need to be balanced.

Start date: As agreed

Location: Västerås

Employment scope: Full-time

Employment type: Consultant via wrknest for at least 6 months

The client operates within a production environment where quality, continuous improvement and structured processes are central to their operations. They work cross-functionally across areas such as Production, Quality, R&D and Production Engineering to maintain stable processes and consistently high product quality.

As an Operations Quality Engineer, you will have a central role in this work, with the opportunity to influence both day-to-day production quality and long-term improvement initiatives.

At Wrknest, we don’t do things like everyone else. We believe in constantly exploring new opportunities and thinking differently. When Wrknest was founded, the ambition was to challenge traditional ways of recruiting.

We live in a time of rapid digital development. Knowledge needs to be continuously renewed to stay relevant, which means being able to adapt quickly. That is why Wrknest looks beyond a candidate’s CV in the recruitment process. Instead, the focus is on overall potential, combined with individually tailored upskilling. This enables Wrknest to quickly match the skills that are needed right now. Read more at www.wrknest.se.