Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

We are now looking for a Quality Engineer

to join our team working for a better future.

The position is permanent and the preferred location is in Porriño, Spain.

What you will be doing

As Quality Engineer, your work will focus on these responsibilities:

• Collaborate effectively with project management to ensure the availability of resources to achieve quality goals.
• Define clear measures within the Project Quality Plan for alignment with project objectives.
• Align quality requirements with project objectives and regulatory standards to ensure compliance.
• Conduct continuous monitoring and testing of processes and materials to address deviations efficiently.
• Provide leadership and coordination to quality assurance teams for adherence to set standards.
• Implement rigorous quality control procedures to enhance product and service reliability.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of failures, resolutions, and quality performance.
• Regularly monitor product and service quality metrics, identifying improvement opportunities.
• Formulate and apply effective strategies for resolving and preventing non-conformities.
• Provide support during customer inspections and audits
• Identify root causes of issues and execute corrective actions and optimization techniques proactively.
• Integrate quality management principles across organizational processes.

To be successful in this role, we expect you to have:

• Knowledge and experience with shaft line products.
• Knowledge of quality standards applied to the marine industry.
• Knowledge of quality standards applied to hydrodynamic bearings.
• Solving problems tools: 5 why, Ishikawa, 8D, QRQC, A3, …
• Experience with SAP ERP software
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams and leading projects.
• Knowledge of inspection plan, elaboration of project manufacturing processes and management of inspections with customers.
• Level of English for full professional development

In this role, some travel is required to meet with our customers around the world. Thus, we hope you to be ready to travel approximately 20%, even though most of the meetings are held virtually.

Why you and us?

We at Wärtsilä believe in empowerment, ownership and taking responsibility of our work. We support each other’s growth and co-creation is the true basis of our innovation. We have courage to see opportunities and take initiative.

We are authentic and honest, and we strongly believe in that by being your own true self you can accomplish so much more. We don’t always get it right the first time, and if mistakes are made, we make sure to learn and grow from them. We want everyone to voice their opinions freely. That is why we have built an environment that empowers you and everyone around you, and where you can feel safe and cared for.

Are you eager to be part of this ambition?

We have an amazing team and we are excited about our work and the impact it has on building sustainable societies. We are looking to find a colleague with this shared passion for smart technologies and a sustainable future.

Contact & next steps

We hope to hear from you soon, by submitting your application through our careers portal. We aim to keep you updated on the process throughout.

For further questions please reach out to Susana López, QEHS Manager, through  with any questions related to this position (only for questions from direct job applicants, applications through email will not be recorded or responded to).

Welcome to join us in shaping the decarbonisation of marine and energy!

At Wärtsilä we value, respect and embrace all our differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on their job‑relevant merits and abilities.

Please note that according to Wärtsilä policy, voluntary consent for a security check may be required from candidates being considered for this position, depending on the applicable country.