Quality Engineer- Precious Metals

Quality Engineer- Precious Metals

Permanent

About Heraeus Electro-Nite

How do steel makers save energy and become more sustainable? How do foundries become more efficient and optimize their processes? Heraeus Electro-Nite (HEN) provides solutions for the molten metal industry. We lead the market with our innovations since the 1950s. As a global company with 25 locations and approximately 4,000 employees worldwide, we are committed to the sustainable growth of our teams and sites.

Heraeus Electro-Nite, headquartered in Houthalen (Belgium), is part of the Heraeus Group. The Technology Group delivers world-class quality in the areas of Precious Metals, Healthcare, Semiconductor & Electronics and Industrials. As one of the top 10 family-owned companies in Germany, Heraeus employs around 15,100 employees in 40 countries.

Summary:

Incumbent will lead quality excellence across platinum laboratory operations and thermal processing systems that are core to our business. The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality, capability, and continuous improvement of precious metals laboratory and furnace room operations within a manufacturing environment. This role serves as the quality authority for precious metal analytical testing, thermal processing, and material accountability while driving digitalization initiatives, data integrity, and process modernization. The Quality Engineer partners cross-functionally to improve process robustness, reduce variability, enhance traceability, and support operational excellence through data-enabled decision making.

Your role and responsibilities:

• As Quality Engineer, you'll support platinum laboratory operations and furnace‑room thermal processing. In this role, you'll strengthen process capability, material traceability, and analytical excellence for high‑value precious‑metal operations, and ensure compliance with standards and customer requirements.
• Develop, implement, and maintain process controls, inspection strategies, and acceptance criteria for melting, heat treatment, alloying, and precious‑metal recovery operations.
• Apply SPC and capability analysis to monitor trends, assess stability, and drive improvements.
• Lead PFMEA, Control Plans, and quality risk assessments to ensure sustained mitigation.
• Provide analytical oversight for platinum lab operations, including method development, validation, and measurement‑uncertainty evaluation.
• Partner with Engineering to qualify, validate, and optimize furnace processes; lead investigations into furnace excursions or metallurgical anomalies.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and data‑driven methodologies to reduce variation, scrap, and precious‑metal losses.
• Lead or support CAPA activities, root‑cause investigations, and audit readiness efforts for lab and furnace operations.

What is require for this role:

• Associate degree (minimum) in a relevant technical field.
• Quality Engineering experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Prior laboratory or laboratory‑operations experience (highly desired).
• Working knowledge of SPC, CAPA, PFMEA, Control Plans, and root‑cause analysis.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025 requirements.
• Proficiency with Lean and Six Sigma practices.
• Strong communication skills with ability to influence cross‑functional teams.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer credential (preferred).

What about you?

If you have further questions, please contact hen_globalrecruitment@heraeus.com or visit our website at jobs.heraeus.com. We look forward to receiving your documents by reference code 59733 via our online application portal.

ReqID: 59733