QUALITY ENGINEER - BRUGES (BELGIUM) - PERMANENT POSITION
As a Quality Engineer, you are responsible for ensuring that products and processes consistently meet defined requirements throughout the manufacturing lifecycle. You contribute to stable, efficient production by monitoring quality performance, identifying risks and deviations, and driving structural improvements rather than short-term fixes.
In this role, you work at the intersection of production, engineering, suppliers, and customers. You use data and structured problem-solving methods to analyze quality performance, support continuous improvement initiatives, and help prioritize actions based on impact and risk.
You are involved early in new developments and process changes, provide quality input during validations, and support the organization in maintaining robust quality systems and audit readiness.
The position offers a balanced mix of analytical work, on-the-floor support, and cross-functional coordination, making it well suited for someone who enjoys combining technical insight with practical problem-solving in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
Your Responsibilities:
* Ensure products meet specifications, standards, and customer expectations
* Monitor and analyze quality performance across production processes
* Improve inspection, testing, and measurement approaches
* Perform root cause analyses and drive corrective and preventive actions
* Support process optimization initiatives to reduce variation, scrap, and rework
* Maintain and contribute to quality documentation and audit activities
* Provide quality input for new products, changes, and validation activities
* Support production teams through training, guidance, and quality problem-solving
* Coordinate supplier-related quality improvement actions
* Analyze field, customer, and return data to identify trends and set priorities
Your Profile:
* Master’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience in a manufacturing environment
* Analytical and structured thinker with an interest in data-driven decision-making
* Familiar with common quality and continuous improvement methodologies
* Good understanding of production processes and technical documentation
* Clear communicator who works well with multidisciplinary teams
* Organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities
* Hands-on mindset with attention to detail and a focus on sustainable solutions
The Offer:
* A permanent, full-time employment contract
* A salary & benefits package commensurate with experience
Please send over your CV to tom.walker@vividresourcing.com or call me on +32 (0) 3 318 00 74. As always, we are open to recommendations, so please feel free to pass this on to other suitable candidates.