What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Engineer position at Danfoss?
The Impact You'll Make
The Manufacturing Quality Engineer supports the Danfoss Turbocor organization by identifying, reducing, and controlling manufacturing product and process risks. This role plays a critical part in driving continuous improvement, ensuring product quality, and protecting the customer experience through data-driven decision-making and cross-functional collaboration.
This position provides direct support to the Manufacturing team and partners closely with Quality, Engineering, and Operations to enhance performance and maintain compliance with quality standards. This is a fully onsite position at our facility in Tallahassee, Florida.
What You’ll Be Doing
Manufacturing Quality & Continuous Improvement
Education & Experience
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.
Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.
Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.360 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.
The Manufacturing Quality Engineer supports the Danfoss Turbocor organization by identifying, reducing, and controlling manufacturing product and process risks. This role plays a critical part in driving continuous improvement, ensuring product quality, and protecting the customer experience through data-driven decision-making and cross-functional collaboration.
This position provides direct support to the Manufacturing team and partners closely with Quality, Engineering, and Operations to enhance performance and maintain compliance with quality standards. This is a fully onsite position at our facility in Tallahassee, Florida.
What You’ll Be Doing
Manufacturing Quality & Continuous Improvement
- Monitor, analyze, and report on manufacturing process performance on a regular basis
- Leverage performance data to identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities
- Lead or facilitate cross-functional teams to investigate root causes and implement corrective actions
- Drive improvements using structured problem-solving methodologies and the corrective action process
- Perform trend analysis to identify both positive and negative shifts in product or process performance and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders
- Develop actionable insights to support continuous improvement and lessons learned across the organization
- Prepare and deliver monthly quality reports, including KPIs across multiple functional areas
- Develop KPIs from raw data when required or consolidate inputs from various departments
- Ensure accuracy, consistency, and clarity in reporting to support business decisions
- Lead or support containment activities for high-risk quality issues to protect customers
- Develop, implement, and document containment and corrective actions
- Ensure timely resolution and proper documentation of quality events
- Participate in the internal audit program, conducting audits per the defined schedule
- Support product audits to ensure compliance with established quality standards
- Ensure adherence to company quality policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements
- Assist in delivering Quality Tools training sessions as needed
- Promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement across teams
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work environment
- Support environmental, health, and safety initiatives
- Perform additional duties as assigned
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Engineering, or a related field AND
- Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in manufacturing quality, supplier quality, process engineering, or related areas
- Working knowledge and practical application of:
- PPAP (Production Part Approval Process)
- FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
- Experience in high-volume or regulated manufacturing environments
- ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 standards
- Capability analysis and statistical methods
- Root cause analysis and corrective action tools
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite:
- Excel (data analysis and reporting)
- PowerPoint (presentations)
- Word, Access, Visio (documentation and process mapping)
- Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher)
- Lean and/or Six Sigma methodologies
- GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing)
- Familiarity with ERP/MES systems and quality management systems (QMS)
- Experience leading cross-functional improvement initiatives
- We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
- You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
- We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
- You’ll receive benefits like annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.
Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.
Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.360 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.