Advanced Quality Engineer

For our Client, global automotive company, we are currently recruiting for the position:

Advanced Quality Engineer

Role Purpose

Drive quality assurance throughout product development and launch, ensuring alignment with customer specifications, applicable regulations and internal quality standards. Evaluate readiness at critical project stages, manage quality risks and facilitate a controlled transition to serial production.

Responsibilities

Project & Quality Governance

• Oversee quality activities throughout the development and launch lifecycle.
• Verify that project outputs satisfy customer, regulatory and quality requirements before release.
• Evaluate quality readiness at critical milestones, including design freeze, completion of validation and production launch.

Design, Validation & Risk Oversight

• Assess design assumptions and validation outcomes, challenging potential weaknesses to ensure robust solutions that meet customer expectations.
• Track technical and quality risks during development, escalating concerns where required.
• Ensure special characteristics are identified and appropriately managed across design, validation and manufacturing activities.

Failure Prevention & Knowledge Management

• Review FMEA activities to ensure they are thorough, effective and appropriately maintained.
• Verify that identified risks have been addressed and that mitigation measures have been validated before release.
• Coordinate lessons learned and the transfer of relevant findings between projects.
• Promote improvements that minimise launch risks and prevent recurring quality issues.

Launch & Production Readiness

• Conduct quality readiness reviews ahead of the start of production.
• Coordinate PPAP/PPA activities and provide support throughout the approval process.
• Check that documentation is accurate, complete and ready for customer submission.
• Work with manufacturing sites during launch to support stable processes and the timely containment of emerging issues.

Customer & Issue Management

• Serve as the customer’s quality escalation contact throughout development and launch.
• Coordinate or contribute to structured problem-solving activities, including 8D and OPL.
• Assess whether corrective actions are effective and deliver lasting improvements.
• Confirm that outstanding issues are appropriately resolved before responsibility is transferred to serial production.

Key Competencies

• Demonstrated quality experience, ideally gained in an automotive or manufacturing environment.
• Practical knowledge of FMEA, PPAP, 8D, APQP and risk management.
• Experience supporting project-based activities, such as new product introduction and production launches.
• Ability to interpret data, recognise risks and make informed quality decisions.
• Effective customer communication skills, including experience handling escalations.
• Good command of English.
• Confidence working across functions and within international teams.
• A proactive approach, strong organisational skills and ownership of responsibilities.

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work with modern, robotised production equipment.
• Professional development opportunities and access to training.
• Free transport from Warsaw, with pick-up points at Rondo Daszyńskiego and Ciepłownia Wola.
• Private Medicover healthcare for employees and their families.
• Co-financing of a Multisport card.
• Holiday subsidies.
• Financial support for further education, including master’s degrees and postgraduate studies.
• The option to join a UNIQA insurance scheme.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.