Senior Design Quality Specialist

About the role

AFRY is looking for a detail-oriented and analytical Senior Design Quality Specialist to join its Design team in Gothenburg, Sweden. The role ensures the highest standards of design quality across products and services, working from initial benchmarks and target settings through to industrialization. Travel will be required.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and implement quality assurance processes for design deliverables.
• Review design work for consistency, usability and adherence to brand guidelines.
• Assess and review design quality on complete vehicles and on individual parts, and on both digital and physical models.
• Highlight visual surface quality problems in digital and physical models and call for quality reviews at each project stage.
• Support the design department on technical constraints and opportunities, and share best practices for design execution.
• Create and maintain design quality documentation such as style guides and best practices, and give constructive feedback to design teams.
• Work across projects and contribute to continuous improvement of design workflows.

Required profile

• Minimum of 10 years of automotive experience; a background as an experienced Digital Modeler or Design Quality is recommended.
• Strong understanding of shape and surface quality, and of design execution best practices.
• Ability to assess design quality on production and pre-production parts, and to understand customer needs and vehicle target setting.
• Knowledge of component manufacturing, tooling requirements and lead times.
• Fluent English, spoken and written.
• Technical university degree or equivalent.

Required skills

• Design quality assessment using Alias, ICEM, Catia and VRED.
• Experience with the equipment used for design quality and the AAR process.
• Ability to develop relevant processes and manage conflicts.