Production Quality Engineer / Quality Production Lead – F/M F/H

The company

Founded in 2013, Cailabs designs, manufactures, and develops innovative photonic solutions for the space, industry, telecommunications, and defense sectors. A global specialist in laser shaping, the company has accelerated its growth in the space field with turnkey optical ground stations that integrate atmospheric turbulence compensation technology. This makes it one of the first companies to harness very high data rates enabled by optics in a commercial ground station.

Cailabs currently has 170 employees, including 40PhDs. With 29 patent families filed, the company is one of the most innovative companies in France. It is headquartered in Rennes, with offices in Paris and Washington (USA).

Post description

Would you like to join a human-sized company and work at the heart of innovative projects within a multidisciplinary team?

Join Cailabs!

In a context of growing industrial activity and to strengthen the management of production non-conformities, we are recruiting a Production Quality Engineer / Lead.

Reporting to the Head of Quality and Continuous Improvement, you will work directly within the workshops and play a key role in structuring and driving the production quality approach.

Your main role will be to structure and improve the handling of non-conformities in the workshops by implementing clear processes for detection, analysis, and problem resolution, while maintaining close collaboration with production and engineering teams.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Play a key role in deploying our quality approach, with a strong focus on responsiveness in handling production non-quality issues.
• Handle non-conformities directly on the shop floor
• Perform root cause analysis
• Create and ensure the implementation of corrective actions
• Ensure compliance of manufactured products
• Ensure the release of compliant products as required and provide backup for incoming inspection
• Lead quality, operational, and system improvement initiatives, in direct collaboration with operational teams
• Deploy and continuously improve the quality management system, based on audits and field feedback
• Monitor KPIs and propose improvement actions
• Structure and maintain quality documentation (processes, procedures, standards), ensuring it remains clear, practical, and useful for users

The position is highly field-oriented, with daily work in the workshops, in direct collaboration with technicians, product engineers, and methods teams.

Profile required

With a technical background and solid experience in quality, or holding a Master’s degree (or equivalent, Bac+5) in quality, industrial engineering, or a related field:

• You have initial or significant experience in production quality or in an industrial environment;
• You are comfortable handling non-conformities and analyzing complex problems;
• You are familiar with root cause analysis methods (5 Why, Ishikawa, 5M, 8D);
• You have strong technical versatility and can interact across multiple domains (mechanical, electronic, software, or systems);
• You enjoy hands-on, field work and have a strong collaborative mindset, with the ability to build connections between operational teams
• You are able to structure information, formalize processes, and follow up on corrective actions;
• You demonstrate autonomy, a strong sense of priorities, and analytical skills;
• You are known for your rigor, synthesis skills, and pragmatic approach.

Nice to have:

• Experience in a high-tech production/manufacturing environment;
• Knowledge of quality tools and continuous improvement methods;
• Experience in managing non-conformities and structuring quality processes;
• Experience in a multidisciplinary environment (mechanical, electronic, software, optics).

Required languages

• English - Level Intermediate

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