Quality Engineer

Location: Duizel

At Weheat, we are building the next generation of heat pumps: cleaner, smarter, and affordable for as many households as possible. From our high-tech facilities in Duizel (Eindhoven region), we develop, test, and manufacture our own heat pumps—from initial concept to scalable production.

In Duizel, everything comes together: engineering, prototyping, testing, and production. You work here daily with other engineers, close to the hardware and real-world application. We work closely with our hub in Utrecht, but strongly believe in on-site collaboration when it comes to complex technology. Our culture is down-to-earth and ambitious, with a strong sense of ownership, short lines of communication, and a clear focus on progress.

Quality is what makes the difference between a heat pump that just works and one that scales. Our strategy is to produce locally with a high degree of automation, and to learn faster than anyone else from every unit we ship. With thousands of heat pumps in the field generating telemetry, and a growing network of installers giving us direct feedback from real homes, we have an unusually rich signal on how our products actually behave.

Turning that signal into action is where this role lives.

Your Mission
You prevent quality issues from happening, and when they do happen, you make sure they never happen again. You sit at the intersection of factory, field, and product: addressing risks early during industrialization, leading triage when issues emerge, and translating patterns from field telemetry and installer feedback into concrete improvements upstream. You spend a meaningful part of your time on the production floor, and you stay close to the engineering teams so the loop from field reality back to design and process is short and effective.

When you succeed in this role, customers value us, manufacturing flows smoothly, the field behaves predictably, and the factory is ready to scale.

The Challenge
Prevent at Source:  Help the industrialization team address risks early through pFMEA and dFMEA, and bring learnings from past mistakes into new designs and processes so they do not repeat themselves.

Field Data as Quality Signal:  Mine the telemetry of thousands of installed heat pumps to surface quality issues before they become widespread. Spot patterns, anomalies, and early warnings that no individual case would reveal.

Installer Feedback Loop:  Treat input from our installer network as a primary signal. Turn what installers see in homes into structured insights that feed back into product and process decisions.

Triage and Root Cause:  Lead the triage of quality issues from production and from the field. Run 8D problem solving with operations and engineering to fix them at the root, not the symptom—and to capture the learning so it lands in design, process, or test coverage.

Customer Quality Interface:  Act as first contact for customers on quality-related topics, and make sure systemic issues escalation into the engineering and product backlog rather than getting closed case by case.

Supplier Quality:  Cooperate with purchasing on strategies that guarantee the quality of purchased components, especially as we scale volumes.

Trends and KPIs:  Monitor quality trends across production and the installed base. Report key performance indicators that actually drive decisions, and define improvement projects from them.

Quality System as We Grow:  Help define what Weheat needs in its quality system to keep standards high as we scale, including adherence to relevant norms for our product domain.

Who you are
You combine analytical rigour with a hands‑on mentality. You are as comfortable on the production floor or behind a heat pump in the field as you are in a dataset or a design review. You take ownership of your domain and you push issues to root cause rather than to closure.

You likely bring:

A degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, electrical engineering, refrigeration technology, or a comparable technical field.

Several years of experience in quality engineering in a hardware product environment, ideally in HVAC, refrigeration, white goods, automotive, or another high‑volume…