Design Quality Engineer

Design Quality Engineer

Job Title : Design Quality Engineer

Your challenge

As the incumbent of this Quality & Regulatory (Q&R) role within Philips, your challenge will be to guide and support Business Groups, Markets and enabling functions to always do the right thing. This involves being a confident advisor on approval, regulatory compliance and quality management related topics, in order to achieve timely releases of innovative products that deliver high quality and outstanding reliability to the lives they will improve.

Job Responsibilities

• Creates and executes comprehensive process validation strategies using statistical tools to ensure seamless transition of new products to production, meeting quality and regulatory standards, working under limited supervision.

• Handles the entire design control process, from eliciting and validating design inputs to managing verification, validation, and smooth design transfer, ensuring rigorous adherence to regulatory and quality standards.

• Keeps a check on the drafting and updating of detailed quality engineering documents, including quality plans for hardware, software, and systems, ensuring all documentation is accurate, up-to-date, and compliant with regulatory requirements.

• Ensures success of quality improvement projects by integrating quality, reliability, and Post Market Surveillance (PMS) insights into all stages of the product lifecycle, driving continuous enhancement of product quality and reliability.

• Conducts thorough assessments of product and system designs, reviews performance data, and performs root cause analysis to identify and address quality deficiencies, ensuring the highest standards of design excellence.

• Validates critical design inputs such as usability, reliability, performance, manufacturability, and safety, ensuring alignment with both quality standards and regulatory requirements.

• Guides comprehensive risk management activities throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring potential risks are accurately identified, assessed, and effectively mitigated to uphold product safety and quality.

• Leverages post-market performance data to assess product effectiveness in the field, providing actionable feedback to manufacturing and design teams, and initiating corrective actions when necessary.

• Ensures preparation for quality audits and inspections, maintaining all necessary documentation and processes to demonstrate compliance with both internal and external quality standards.

• Records, manages, and executes CAPA processes, including problem identification, root cause analysis, and implementation of solutions to prevent recurrence and drive continuous improvement.

• Applies continuous improvement techniques to enhance quality practices, ensuring ongoing audit readiness and strict adherence to both internal and external quality standards throughout the product lifecycle.

• Builds effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providing guidance and mentorship to ensure alignment with quality standards and project milestones.

Your team

As a result of Philips renewed commitment to Quality, it has recently restructured its organization to ensure you and your department have clear interfaces with Philips Business Group and Market leadership, and can harness the expertise of five Centers of Excellence (COEs). These 5 COEs specialize in the following capabilities: Regulatory & Clinical Affairs, Supplier Quality, Quality Management System, Quality Assurance & Engineering, and Compliance & Audit. As part of this new structure, you are empowered to use your voice and expertise to have a positive impact on your team, our business, and health technologies that will improve the health, well-being and care for people around world.

Minimum Required Qualifications

Education Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Science or equivalent.

Work Experience Minimum 8-10 years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Quality Engineering, Safety Engineering, R&D Engineering or equivalent OR 5 years experience required with Master's Degree.

Preferred Qualifications

Six Sigma Green Belt

Preferred Skills (Technical / Functional Skills)

• Design Quality Management

• Data Analysis & Interpretation

• Design for Quality (DFQ)

• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

• CAPA Methodologies

• Regulatory Requirements

• Privacy, Safety and Security Risk Assessment

• Technical Documentation

• Continuous Improvement

• Product Quality and Reliability

• Defect Management

• Design Verification Planning

• Design Validation Planning

• Product Test Design

About Philips

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How we work at Philips

Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity

At Philips, we provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company , irrespective of age, color, disability, nationality, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation (LGBTQ +), and all aspects that make individuals unique. Encouraging diversity and fostering inclusion are key to our mission of improving the lives of 2.5 billion people a year by 2030 through meaningful innovation. We have fair, transparent, and clear employee policies which promote diversity and equality, in accordance with currently applicable law. For, we believe that life is better when #youareyou.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:

We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone's in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.

We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn't office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.

We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.