Do you get excited about building tier-one quality, mitigating risks and ensuring supplier readiness? Do you thrive in a dynamic and complex organization, where you get to collaborate with many across functions? If so, it might be you we are looking for.

We are looking for our new colleague, who will be driving our supplier’s quality through proactive risk mitigation and compliance & Standards Adherence. You will be able to develop and implement supplier quality control plans, inspection methods, and quality protocols for our new products. Likewise, you will be able to influence supplier’s capabilities to meet quality and performance expectations, using your strong sense relationship building.

As our new team member, you will you join the Procurement & Supplier Quality Assurance Group, a matrix-based organisation based across geographical locations. This role is new in 3Shape and will likewise be part of R&D where you will have your daily work majority. In this new role, we expect you to be spokesman for the Quality adherence and continue to improve our way of engaging suppliers in the NPI phase.

Key Responsibilities

• Supplier Qualification & Audits: Conducts audits (system, process, product) and manages the qualification process for new strategic suppliers.

• NPI Project Leadership: Leads quality aspects of NPI, defining requirements, assessing risks, and ensuring supplier readiness for new product launches.

• Advanced Quality Planning (APQP): Leading the industrialization process using frameworks like APQP to mitigate risks early in the product lifecycle.

• PPAP Management: Manages the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for new parts, changes, and reallocations.

• Risk Management: Identifies, assesses, and mitigates quality risks from suppliers, including obsolescence, counterfeiting, and compliance issues.

• Process Development: Develops and implements supplier quality control plans, inspection methods, and quality protocols for new products.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Works with Design, Engineering, Procurement, and Manufacturing teams to integrate quality early in the design phase.

• Performance Monitoring: Monitors supplier quality performance, analyses data, and reports on KPIs.

• Problem Solving: Drives root cause analysis (RCA) and implements robust corrective and preventive actions (CAPA). 

• Communication – establishes relationship and communication paths between R&D, Supplier, Manufacturing Plant.

Qualifications:

• To qualify for the role of a NPI Supplier Quality Engineer, you need to have:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field, such as engineering and or quality management, supply chain management

• Proven experience as a Quality Engineer, ideally within implementation of new products/projects

• Knowledge of statistics, quality control, manufacturing processes, and project management is essential. A degree in these fields helps you to develop a solid foundation of theoretical knowledge, which can be applied in practice throughout your career.

• Experience in working with Standard Quality Tools (APQP, 8D, MSA, SPC, FMEA, PPAP, Lean, ISO9001 and ISO13485)

• Obtained relevant certifications (such as QCE, Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt) will be an advantage.

Join us in shaping a company culture that makes Monday mornings worth it

3Shape is a high-energy, rapidly growing, and purpose-driven company with a strong innovation track record and highly motivated colleagues working primarily within the dental industry. We are driven by our strong values and our purpose to improve patients’ lives.

Working for 3Shape means:

• You will be working in a dynamic and exciting environment and can expect to be both challenged and supported in your personal growth and development.

• We provide a great social work environment with many optional activities and employee clubs, ranging from wine, board games to bicycle clubs.

• You can expect great work/life balance according to your individual needs and situation.

• Daily breakfast and fresh lunch cooked by our resident chefs in our canteen.

• Your work location will be in central Copenhagen, close to Kgs. Nytorv and public transport

• An inspiring international environment with social, diverse, and highly skilled colleagues - we are more than 50 nationalities.

For more information please contact Lars Haupt Jepsen: Lars.jepsen@3shape.com

Get in touch now!

Please do not hesitate to apply for this exciting opportunity at one of Denmark’s most successful and fastest growing high-tech companies, as applications will be processed continuously.

We encourage all relevant applicants to apply. We are committed to celebrating human diversity, and we trust that the best way to reach outstanding business results, is by welcoming diverse people into our community.

About us

3Shape started with a simple idea - to make 3D scanning better. First, we applied it to the hearing industry, then we succeeded in dentistry. Twenty years later, 3Shape has 2,000+ employees globally. With the help of dental professionals and amazing colleagues we’re creating award-winning scanning and CAD/CAM solutions to change dentistry together! Together, we contribute to a better world. Experience the everyday #lifeat3Shape across the globe on LinkedIn.