Quality Engineer

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 escalate 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 rigor 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 manufacturing context. 

• Solid command of pFMEA / dFMEA, 8D problem solving, and statistical quality methods. 

• Comfort with data: pulling it, looking at it, and using it to make decisions. You don't wait for a dashboard to be built for you. 

• Willingness to work on-site in Duizel and to spend real time on the production floor and with engineering teams. 

• Ownership mentality: you feel 51% owner of your topics and make sure they move forward. 

A plus: practical knowledge of heat pump installation, or hands-on experience as (or working closely with) installers. Understanding what actually happens between truck and commissioning, and what installers see in homes, makes the difference between a quality program that looks good on paper and one that moves the needle in the field. 

About Weheat 

Weheat is re-engineering the heat pump from the printed circuit board up. Based in our Smart Factory in Eindhoven and our Commercial & Digital Hub in Utrecht, we combine high-tech hardware with intelligent software to accelerate the energy transition. We operate with a flat structure and a focus on scientific first principles: we value data over opinion and rigorous engineering over quick fixes. 

What we offer 

The opportunity to work on complex, physical problems with direct societal impact (CO₂ reduction / grid stability). 

A collaborative environment with a high density of technical talent. 

Autonomy to define the quality roadmap within your domain. 

Competitive compensation and the opportunity to grow with a future European market leader.