CUSTOMER QUALITY ENGINEER (Automotive Electronics)

Nidec Mobility America Corporation(NMOA) seeks an energetic and focused Customer Quality Engineer (automotive electronics) within our St. Charles, IL operations.

As a world leader in sensing and control technology, we control the most discrete functions within an automobile – from seat switches, power window switches, and instrument panel controls, towards complex user interfaces. NMOA is directly involved with automotive OEM’s and holds a leadership position within Nidec for product development with global vehicle makers.

Objective

Works with interdepartmental Engineers / technical colleagues in a team environment to

manage the New Product Launches of key customer accounts for Quality, leading / solving product problems.

The Customer Quality Engineer (NPL) manages strategic customers’ accounts with direct customer issues with effective communication and provides superior problem solving / critical thinking skills. The Engineer interacts with others globally while traveling occasionally to customer and other Nidec locations.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop strategy to manage specific customer accounts
• Lead customer quality issue resolution
• Interact with customer to satisfy their requirements
• Understand customer specific requirements
• Maintain daily quality (PPM / other KPI targets) and cost (internal / external costs) data for all requirements.
• Actively engage site production team to drive manufacturing improvements
• Support new business opportunities and new product development programs
• Gather warranty data, generate warranty charts, analyze trends and prepare warranty report for each assigned OEM to reduce warranty cost
• Support change management programs customers, and at plant level.
• Fulfill / Submit all new parts submission (PPAP) requirements
• Interact closely with cross functional Team to perform Advanced Product Quality
• Planning (APQP) for new product launches and Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) for product and / or process changes.
• Key member of FMEA Development serving as key member liaison between
• Manufacturing Engineering and Design Engineering.
• Set quality goals and improvement plans
• Document and utilize lessons learned
• Review / Improve Control plans
• Nidec Mobility America Form : Job Description
• Lead / Direct customer issues to closure by gathering appropriate teams and leading problem solving using tools, including : 8D, 5P, 5 Whys, Fault Tree Analysis and other documents, per customer.
• Additional responsibility may entail New Product Launch activity which would require FMEA Moderator training.

Experience : 2+ years’ experience automotive manufacturing

Education : Bachelor's Degree

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities :

Travel Required : up to 10%

Keywords : Automotive, APQP, Electronics, Stamping, Customer Quality Engineer, customer

specific, PPM, KPI, Advanced Quality Planning, FMEA, 8D, 5P, 5 Whys, Fault Tree Analysis, 6-

panel, ERP, QAD, Warranty

No Soliciting

This position is not open to recruiting agencies.