Project Quality Engineer
Dublin, VA, US, 24084
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
What you will do
At Volvo Trucks North America, we are helping transform our company, the transportation industry, and society at large. As a Project Quality Engineer, you will play a key role in bringing new products to life by ensuring robust quality controls, minimizing risk, and enabling sustainable manufacturing performance that delivers defect-free products and exceptional customer satisfaction.
Core Responsibilities
As the quality lead within project teams, you will ensure quality requirements are integrated, validated, and sustained throughout the project lifecycle—from early development and pre-production through Start of Production (SOP). You will help ensure assembly processes are designed and validated to consistently meet customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and Volvo quality standards.
To achieve this, you will:
- Lead quality planning and risk management throughout project implementation by deploying PFMEAs, Control Plans, quality standards, and validation plans.
- Identify and mitigate project quality risks through structured risk management, ensuring stable, capable, and compliant manufacturing processes at SOP.
- Plan and execute capability studies, process audits, and product audits to verify process readiness, validate controls, and ensure compliance with customer and organizational requirements.
- Support product launches from early build phases (C-Build and P-Build) through SOP, ensuring quality requirements are met and sustainable manufacturing performance is achieved.
- Lead resolution of project quality issues using data-driven analysis and structured problem-solving methods to identify root causes and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Drive continuous improvement by analyzing quality data, identifying trends, reducing risk, and improving process capability and product quality throughout the project lifecycle.
Your Future Team
You’ll join a collaborative, hands-on team working cross-functionally to deliver successful product launches at the NRV plant.
Together, you’ll tackle complex challenges, solve problems with excellence, and uphold the highest quality standards—helping ensure our products consistently deliver an outstanding experience for our customers.
Who are you?
Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, you will bring:
- Strong Collaboration, Communication & Influencing
- Accountability & Ownership
- Continuous Improvement mindset
- Adaptability & Resilience
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Customer Focus
Requirements
- University degree in technical or commercial area or equivalent knowledge based on experience
- Quality Management & Risk Assessment
- Process Validation & Statistical Analysis / Auditing
- Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement Methodology
- Data Analysis & Reporting (Advanced Microsoft Office skills)
Preferred Requirements about following experience
- Automotive manufacturing and assembly environments.
- Supporting new product launches, process implementation, or industrialization projects.
- Developing and maintaining PFMEAs and Control Plans.
- Conducting process capability studies and statistical process validation.
- Planning, conducting, and reporting process and product audits.
- Participating in quality risk assessments and mitigation activities.
- Familiarity with quality management systems and manufacturing data systems is preferred.
- Working within cross-functional project teams in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Analyzing quality , warranty and manufacturing data to support decision-making and continuous Customer Satisfaction improvement initiatives.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a solid package of compensation and benefits, plus you will enjoy:
- Strong understanding of the end-to-end product lifecycle, from engineering and manufacturing to logistics, service centers, dealers, and customer delivery.
- Ability to build and leverage cross-functional networks across diverse organizational areas.
- Broad exposure to Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, Transportation but also Customer interfaces.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect decisions across the value chain and their impact on customer satisfaction.
- Quick learner with the adaptability to navigate different processes, functions, and organizational environments.
- Customer-focused mindset with a holistic view of the customer journey and product performance in the field.
Ready for the next move?
Apply Today! We look forward to reviewing your application.
Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
Trucks Technology & Industrial Division hire team players who are ready to create real customer impact. Our decentralized teams work close to our customers, with speed and autonomy, to build what they truly need.
Join us to collaborate on innovative, sustainable technologies that redefine how we design, build, and deliver value. Bring your curiosity, your expertise, and your collaborative energy, and together, we’ll turn bold ideas into tangible solutions for our customers and contribute to a more sustainable tomorrow.
Nearest Major Market: Blacksburg
Nearest Secondary Market: Virginia