Lead Quality Engineer

Our team is looking for a Quality Manager to join our Minerals Crushing Quality Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have experience in quality engineering, preferably in heavy manufacturing environments and complex projects.

• Project Quality Management: Ensure that quality requirements are considered and incorporated from the proposal phase, acting as a liaison between engineering, procurement, suppliers, and customers to ensure that deliveries meet both technical and contractual specifications.
• Team Leadership: Lead and develop the Quality Engineering team, promoting continuous learning, team engagement, and alignment with the company's strategic goals.
• Project Documentation Oversight: Oversee the development and continuous update of quality-related documents, ensuring standardization and full compliance with internal policies, contracts and applicable external standards.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the Quality representative in strategic discussions with customers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams, facilitating alignment on requirements, schedules, and technical resolutions.
• Performance and KPI Management: Monitor and analyze key quality performance indicators, including NCRs, cost of poor quality, rework, supplier performance, and chargebacks. Lead structured root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions to drive continuous improvement across global projects.
• Supplier Assessment and Development: Coordinate audits and technical assessments of global suppliers, ensuring production capability, compliance with quality requirements, and adherence to industry standards.
• Technical Decision-Making: Provide technical support to Quality Engineers in the validation of critical procedures related to project execution and supplier operations, including welding, non-destructive testing (NDTs), painting, and dimensional control.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Metallurgical, Technology Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering, preferably in heavy manufacturing environments and complex projects.
• Solid knowledge of welding processes, NDT inspections, and industrial painting.
• Familiarity with international standards such as AWS, CWB, ASME, and EN.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, ITPs, and specifications.
• Experience in audits and inspections of global suppliers.
• Experience with internal audits based on ISO 9001:2015.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, corporate email, SAP, or similar manufacturing business systems.
• Advanced English (written, spoken, and reading) and intermediate Spanish.
• Strong technical communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in multicultural and multilingual environments.

• An inspiring purpose - Enabling a sustainable modern life.
• A safe working environment - Safety is a core value at the company.
• Well-being - Our occupational health services, combined with initiatives focused on promoting health and well-being, reflect our commitment to quality of life and employee engagement.
• Compensation and benefits - Our compensation and benefits structure is aligned with market practices, offering an attractive package that includes fixed and variable pay, medical and dental assistance, life insurance, private pension plans, meal support, and more.
• Flexibility - We value in-person collaboration and interpersonal interactions, supported by an open and flexible work environment that promotes work-life balance.
• A thriving culture - We are committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone can perform at their best and reach their full potential.
• Extensive learning opportunities - We encourage continuous dialogue, feedback sessions, internal mobility, mentoring programs, training and development initiatives, and global opportunities through ambitious projects.
• Borderless collaboration - Tap into our global network of colleagues to exchange experiences and knowledge.