Would you like to play a key role in ensuring quality and compliance in mission-critical solutions within the defense industry? In this role, you will ensure that customer requirements and international quality standards are embedded across projects and product development in a high-tech environment where quality is essential. Come and join us!
We are facing an exciting future with considerable growth and demanding changes, as we deliver advanced technologies and mission critical solutions for the defense and aerospace industry. Our systems provide security for people on land, at sea and in the air. Therefore, we are looking for a Quality Manager to become part of this journey and contribute to our overall purpose – securing people through advanced technology.
Your role in our team
As our new Quality Responsible, you will ensure that quality standard and customer requirements are systematically identified and embedded across projects and product development activities. You will evaluate quality standards and secure compliance throughout the project life cycle. In this role, you will participate in proposals and contact reviews to ensure customer quality requirements are identified early and implemented through structured Product Assurance and Safety Plans (PASP), including effective flow-down to suppliers.
As a Quality Responsible you will safeguard project execution in accordance with our Quality Management System by planning and facilitate internal and external audits. You will play a key role in ensuring that defined quality requirements are fulfilled and that all deliverables meet the agreed standard prior to release.
You will be a part of a team of Quality Managers and Engineers, working within different Business Areas. Your role will be to provide Product Assurance in projects towards Space industry.
You will be working in our Leiden office in The Nederland’s as the only Q representative, and as it is a small department, the job comes with a variety of tasks, from reception control to high level Product Assurance, mainly within software development. You will be managed by a manager of a highly skilled team in Darmstadt Germany as a part of a global Q organization located in Aarhus, Denmark.
How you will make a meaningful contribution
Your key responsibilities include:
- Be a part of Bid/No bid, proposal and contract review, with focus on customer requirement.
- Evaluate requirement for new product development, to ensure they meet coming customers’ expectations.
- Manage Customer Complaints efficiently to maintain Terma’s high customer satisfaction level.
- Participate in project milestone meetings to ensure milestone checklist compliance.
- Perform Buy-off, verifying that deliverables are of the right quality.
- Manage Concessions (Deviations & Waivers) and delegations from customers.
- Management of Compliance evaluation concerning AS9100D, ESA ECSS requirements and variety of customer enforced requirements for space products.
- Provides input and support to Business Areas and projects, often as a trusted advisor.
Bring your world class expertise into play
You are fluent in English both in writing and verbal at a professional level. Danish is an advantage but not a requirement. Moreover, we are also looking for a new colleague with the following qualifications:
- You hold a Bachelor´s or Master´s degree in engineering, software or another relevant field.
- Proven track record at Project Manager or Quality Engineer with preferrable 5 years of experience in managing product development projects or managing quality requirement fulfilment. Experience within space industry is preferrable.
- Experienced in understanding system-level interactions between mechanical, hardware, and software components.
- Experience in software engineering and software development processes is preferred, with the ability to understand and manage quality issues related to software development and release. If this qualification is not met, we are willing to train a highly motivated candidate.
- Experienced in performing well-documented audits (project and process audits), if not we will train you.
- Strong skills in Microsoft system
- Experience within Quality Management and Continuous Improvement, including Lean and Six Sigma, is an advantage.
- We will employ so skills and experience will match the position. If you are experienced within space industry, we will do our best to enforce your work balance and if young and eager to learn we will love to train you to the next level.
As a person, you bring an analytical mindset, combining a generalist perspective with a strong drive and natural curiosity. You apply a structured and objective approach to ensure quality requirements are met, while maintaining the ability to prioritize. You can demonstrate strong execution skills and act in a solution-oriented manner, taking ownership and delivering results with confidence. You operate with a global business mindset, acting positive, outgoing and independent.
We are an international company representing world-class expertise, delivering complex and high-tech products. We value our colleagues and our meaningful contributions to securing people through advanced technology. You will also experience that we have a strong focus on your development, teaching you useful new competences and further strengthening current ones, both professionally and personally. Our company culture is autonomous and engaging, and we acknowledge the importance of flexibility in a great working environment.
When joining Terma, we promise that you will experience: Great people, challenging tasks, world-class expertise, and meaningful contribution in your daily work.
At Terma, we prioritize the well-being of our employees, ensuring they are well taken care of. Joining our team comes with a multitude of perks designed to enhance your social life, cultural experiences, and health.
International Environment: Explore great teamwork and professional sparring with colleagues around the world.
Flexible Working Hours: Enjoy the opportunity to work flexibly and the option to work from home up to two days per week. Internet connection at home is paid for by Terma.
Comprehensive Benefits Package: Receive a 10% paid pension along with a beneficial health care and insurance package. Enjoy discounts from various business partners.
Well-being Perks: Opportunity to enroll in our on-site massage-offer at our locations in Denmark.
Social and Professional Events: We have an active staff association that arranges a variety of social activities and events to bring all of our colleagues together.
Competence networking across professional experts in Terma: Professional presentations and knowledge sharing across the organization.
We are dedicated to fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and welcoming workplace. Our commitment to DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) means we actively value and celebrate unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to create an environment where all employees have equal opportunities to succeed, feel respected and valued, and experience a true sense of belonging.
To support an unbiased evaluation process, we kindly encourage applicants to omit personal details such as photos and age from their applications.
If you would like to take on the challenge of working in an innovative company, we look forward to receiving your application. A resume is required, while a cover letter is optional. To ensure that your application will reach us and is properly processed, we only accept applications via www.terma.com. Applications will be processed continuously.
Do you have any questions regarding the position?
Feel free to contact Mrs. Silvia Cavallini on e-mail: ta.space@terma.com or +49 6151 86005-0
Bear in mind, that we need you to confirm that you can obtain a security clearance by the Dutch Authorities, and that all adults in your household are not posing any risk to the related risk-evaluation. This entails among other issues:
- That you have as a minimum stayed within NATO/EU/MISWG countries for the last 7 years only interrupted by short stays abroad, and
- That you have not committed serious criminal offences
Terma group has headquarters in Denmark and is a high-tech company developing products and systems for defense and non-defense security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems for aircraft, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry. TERMA | Allies in innovation
