Team Lead Quality & Industrialization
If you are enthusiastic about driving positive change and eager to shape the future of technology in a dynamic, international environment, we invite you to join our Quality & Industrialization team.
As Team Lead Quality & Industrialization, you are accountable for leading and further developing a team of approximately 10+ engineers.
In this role, you play a critical part in building a high-performing, engaged, and collaborative team, leveraging your leadership capabilities, technical expertise, and coaching mindset.
Summary
Location
The Netherlands - Eindhoven
Education
Bachelor
Years of experience
5+ as a Team Lead
Function field
Operations & Manufacturing
Hours
32 - 38
Full-time salary
€5.000 - €7.000
About the role
As Team Lead Quality & Industrialization, you play a pivotal role in ensuring stable, scalable, and predictable production processes while delivering best-in-class product and process quality across the Business Line. Together with your team, you define, implement, and continuously improve quality and industrialization standards throughout New Product Introduction (NPI) and the full product lifecycle.
In this role, you combine technical depth with strong leadership capabilities. You lead the Quality & Industrialization team and contribute to its structural growth and development. With your leadership experience, you guide the team in performance management, recruitment, capacity planning, and people development. Experience with HR-related topics such as performance appraisals, interviews, calibrations, mid-year reviews, and end-year cycles is highly valuable in this position.
You work cross-functionally with R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, and suppliers to enable manufacturable designs, efficient ramp-ups, and robust production processes. By driving operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance, you make a lasting impact on both business performance and long-term system improvement. Your responsibilities are:
Lead, coach, and develop a team of 10+ Quality and Industrialization Architects, creating a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative environment.
Take full ownership of team management activities, including performance management, recruitment, capacity planning, and succession planning
Drive team engagement, cohesion, and professional growth through strong interpersonal leadership and clear communication
Drive successful industrialization of new products by ensuring manufacturability, scalability, and predictable ramp-up performance.
Enable first-time-right product introductions with high yield, minimal disruption, and strong alignment between development and production.
Define, implement, and improve quality and industrialization standards across NPI and the full product lifecycle.
Drive quality excellence by reducing defects, increasing reliability, and embedding continuous improvement into daily operations.
Partner closely with R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, and suppliers to embed quality and industrialization early in design and process development.
Monitor and improve operational performance through clear KPIs such as defect rates, yield, process capability, and cost of poor quality.
Ensure compliance with customer requirements, internal standards, and relevant regulations while balancing quality, cost efficiency, and delivery performance.
What we offer
Performance-based salary growth that rewards your results
33 vacation days per year, including public holidays
Flexible working hours
Time-for-time compensation when working extra hours
Strong focus on personal development, supported by a tailored growth and learning plan
Extensive career opportunities, with progression across a wide range of functions and projects
A young, entrepreneurial, and innovative company culture where initiative is encouraged
Free access to the company gym
Free lunch, dinner and healthy snacks available every day on-site
What you bring
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field such as Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in a high-tech manufacturing environment, preferably within electronics manufacturing, PCBA/SMT, testing, or mechatronic systems.
Proven experience in a leadership or team lead role, with the ability to build and develop teams and drive performance.
Experience with HR-related responsibilities such as recruitment, interviews, performance appraisals, calibrations, and development conversations .
Advanced knowledge of quality engineering methods and tools such as APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, SPC, and root cause analysis methodologies like 8D and DMAIC.
Strong understanding of Design for Manufacturing (DFM), process validation, process capability, production ramp-up, and line qualification.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to connect technical depth to business impact and to act as a first point of escalation for stakeholders.
Pragmatic, responsible, data-driven, and resilient in a fast-paced environment with pressure from operations, customers, and management.
Fluent in English, both spoken and written.
Salary is dependent on experience level
- Science Park Eindhoven 5501
- 5692 EM Son
- The Netherlands
- recruitment@prodrive-technologies.com
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