Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer - Drive Quality Excellence for New Data Center Start-Ups!

Location: Kansas City, Mo

Travel Required | Multiple Locations

Are you a detail-oriented Quality Engineer who enjoys solving problems, improving processes, and ensuring operational excellence? This is your opportunity to play a key role in launching new data center operations with a global logistics leader!

We are seeking a proactive and hands-on Quality Engineer to oversee quality assurance activities for the assembly, placement, and setup of data towers at new data center locations. This role will focus on developing inspection plans, verifying completed work, investigating quality concerns, and implementing corrective actions to ensure projects meet customer expectations and established quality standards.

If you're passionate about quality improvement, enjoy working closely with operational teams, and thrive in fast-paced environments where attention to detail makes a real impact - we want to hear from you!

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Play a key role in ensuring quality standards are met during new data center start-up projects
• Develop inspection plans and quality processes that support successful project execution
• Work directly with Operations, customer teams, and cross-functional leadership
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action initiatives to improve operational performance
• Help establish consistent quality standards and best practices across multiple locations
• Gain hands-on experience supporting new site launches and operational implementations
• Travel to new locations and lead quality assurance activities as projects progress
• Join a growing global organization with opportunities for professional growth

What You'll Do

• Oversee quality assurance activities for the assembly, placement, and setup of data towers at new data center locations
• Develop and implement inspection plans, quality checks, and verification processes aligned with customer specifications and company standards
• Conduct inspections of completed work to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with established quality requirements
• Document inspection findings, quality results, nonconformances, and corrective actions
• Investigate defects, damaged materials, and nonconforming work to identify root causes and prevent recurring issues
• Partner with Operations, customer teams, and other departments to develop and implement effective corrective and preventive actions
• Maintain quality documentation, including standard work instructions, process control plans, and Process Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (PFMEAs)
• Monitor quality performance metrics, identify trends, and recommend improvements to reduce defects and process variation
• Support internal audits, quality system compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Provide quality-related training and guidance to operational employees to ensure understanding of customer specifications and work standards
• Collaborate with Process Engineering and Operations to identify opportunities to improve processes, quality controls, and operational consistency
• Communicate quality concerns, inspection results, corrective action progress, and potential project risks to site leadership and customer representatives
• Ensure quality processes and documentation support applicable ISO standards and company requirements
• Support final quality inspections, customer acceptance activities, and the successful handoff of completed projects to ongoing operations teams
• Travel to subsequent data center locations to establish and oversee quality assurance activities as each new project begins

What We're Looking For

• College degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Manufacturing Technology, or a related technical field
• Experience in quality engineering, quality assurance, or quality control within logistics, manufacturing, automotive, distribution, or similar operational environments
• Strong understanding of quality management systems, inspection processes, and quality documentation
• Experience conducting root cause analysis, investigating defects, and implementing corrective actions
• Knowledge of quality tools and methodologies, including FMEA, control plans, and structured problem-solving techniques
• Ability to interpret customer specifications, operational procedures, and quality requirements
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Experience analyzing quality data, tracking performance metrics, and preparing reports
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across Operations, Engineering, Safety, and customer teams
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond effectively to changing project requirements
• Willingness and flexibility to travel to new project locations as business needs require

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting new site launches, operational start-ups, or project-based quality assurance activities
• Background in data center operations, equipment assembly, installation support, or technology infrastructure environments
• Experience with quality Core Tools, including APQP, PFMEA, and process control plans
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, or other applicable quality and management system standards
• Experience supporting internal audits, quality system documentation, and compliance initiatives
• Familiarity with Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies
• Experience using structured problem-solving techniques such as 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagrams, and 8D
• Experience collaborating with customers and operational teams to resolve quality concerns
• Quality-related certifications, such as ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or Six Sigma Green Belt, are a plus

Join DP World and Help Build Something Great!

At DP World , we are transforming global logistics through innovation, teamwork, and operational excellence.

This is more than a Quality Engineer position - it's an opportunity to establish quality standards, improve operational processes, and help ensure successful execution of new data center projects.

If you're ready to solve challenges, drive continuous improvement, and make a lasting impact across multiple projects, apply today!

About the Role

How you will contribute

• Gather data from the customer and internal sources as input for problem solving and communicate/report to appropriate personnel. Interact with staff within the locations and within the Company and all customer and prospective customer representatives.
• Administer all projects and documentation (quality system) relative to assigned processes/launches (i.e. operator instructions (SWS, WES), PFMEA's and process control plans).
• Provide input on processes from a quality perspective, aid in the implementation of new processes. (3rd party sorts, suspect material, damaged material etc.)
• Champion Lean engineering goals in addition to being an aid in developing, implementing and maintaining a Lean culture within the organization using a hands-on approach.
• Develop and design irreversible corrective actions for known problems. Use established problem solving techniques to reduce process variation.
• Generate, interpret, analyze, and communicate results using management tools, graphs, and reports.
• Provide input on document enhancement and retention, maintain ISO documentation and controls, administer activities required to maintain ISO certification, and actively coach the organization for maintaining ISO system.
• Support and participate in the internal auditing program in order to identify and report any potential and/or existing quality issues.
• Drive regional and local quality initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Your Key Qualifications

• College with a Technical degree is required.
• Experience working in an automotive or logistics environment working in a quality capacity.
• Extensive knowledge and/or training in Core Tools (APQP, FMEA).
• Knowledge of relevant international standards (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 etc.).
• Strong analytical and technical skills. Strong experience using MS Office products.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills- written and oral in order to deal with a wide range of internal and external customers.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.


With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 111,000 employees from 159 nationalities, spanning 77 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future.

We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology - and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we're at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures - not just in what we do but also in how we behave.

We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what's possible.

The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.