Product Quality and Reliability Engineer

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About the company

For more than 60 years, FEI has been at the forefront of innovation and leadership, empowering customers to uncover meaningful answers that drive breakthrough discoveries, enhance productivity, and transform the world. FEI specializes in designing, manufacturing, and supporting the most comprehensive range of high-performance microscopy workflows, delivering images and insights at the micro-, nano-, and picometer scales.

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Job description

Yacht Engineering has a vacancy of Product Quality & Reliability Engineer at our client - FEI Electron Optics B.V. (in Eindhoven, the Netherlands).

As a Product Quality & Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality and reliability of products throughout their lifecycle. Acting as the central link within project teams, you will collaborate with various stakeholders to assess risks, define test strategies, and drive improvements in product performance. Your strong focus on quality and risk management will be crucial in system integration and module development projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for both module and system levels to identify potential risks.
• Oversee the Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) process, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
• Define, implement, and maintain test processes, acting as the test coordinator for project teams.
• Develop comprehensive test coverage based on requirements from design teams, business units, operations, and service organizations.
• Facilitate discussions to establish well-defined test methods for each test case.

Furthermore, you will:

• Organize and lead review meetings to evaluate and document test results.
• Conduct reliability analysis for new product developments, using field data and FMEA insights to predict warranty costs.
• Support reliability testing, including Test-to-Fail and Test-to-Pass methodologies.
• Assist design teams in root cause analyses using statistical engineering techniques.

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Job requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a similar role within product quality, reliability, or system integration.

• Experience with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Safety Risk Assessment (SRA).

• Familiarity with reliability analysis, test methodologies, and validation processes.

• Experience in a high-tech or manufacturing environment is a plus.

• Strong knowledge of quality standards and reliability techniques, such as Test-to-Fail, Test-to-Pass, and Root Cause Analysis.

• Experience with statistical methods and data analysis (e.g., Six Sigma, Weibull analysis).

• Knowledge of product validation and testing processes at both module and system levels.

• Experience in defining test plans and coordinating testing activities.

• Proficiency with software tools such as Minitab, ReliaSoft, JMP, or other data analysis tools.

• Basic knowledge of SAP, PLM systems, or other product development systems is a plus.

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Terms of employment

We offer a challenging position in which you can work in a dynamic environment, guaranteeing diversity in your work and creating plenty of opportunities for personal development. It concerns a secondment agreement at FEI Electron Optics B.V. via Yacht for one year, with possibility of extension and permanent contract; for 40 hours per week (working on site).

We offer a competitive package of employment conditions according to the seniority of the position and the candidate. Salary depending on experience between €3500,- and €5000,-.

Start date: ASAP

Location: Eindhoven

32-40 hours a week