Customer Quality Engineer
About the role
The Customer Quality Engineer is responsible for leading customer communication on quality issues. The CQE develops strong lines of communication with customers and is responsible for the cascade of customer requirements throughout the business. The CQE is the customer champion that represents AESC with external stakeholders and interested parties on all product quality matters.
Responsibilities
- Lead and/or contribute to business risk assessments considering customer specific requirements, including warranty terms and consequences, and project requirements.
- Monitor products from a quality perspective through the entire life cycle.
- Participate in evaluations of customer quality agreements.
- Evaluate and provide input to resource plans involving training, warehouse planning, equipment/tools, and spare part solutions.
- Cookpide responses to customer-initiated design change requests along with Marketing and Sales.
- Lead continuous efforts to reduce occurrence of the top warranty field issues within a customer program.
- Develop and provide training related to customer specific requirements and customer quality.
AESC Plant Activity
- Conduct and lead process audits in manufacturing facilities based on customer requirements in advance of customer audits.
- Zero km customer complaint, field complaint, and warranty cost database set up and continued analysis and improvement.
Customer Site / Field
- Lead after market management and claims processing, including warranty and zero km data analysis.
- Conduct and lead failure analysis investigations and reporting to customers.
- Manage company communication through customer complaint portals and become the main contact window for customer quality communication.
- Manage customer service requirements resolutions.
- Customer complaint management.
- Customer scorecard collection, internal follow up, and escalation within the company.
- Participate in customer on-site service (problem identification, diagnosis, sorting, 3rd party arrangement, service reporting, recycling arrangements etc.).
- Lead field failure analysis (failure part collection, transport, analysis plan, diagnosis, problem solving, report, technical factors identification, customer negotiation, agreement claim payment, etc.).
- Customer satisfaction survey implementation, feedback collection, analysis, reporting, countermeasure follow up and updating.
Requirements
- Five or more years of directly related professional-level engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
- Must be a self-motivated individual with good written and verbal communication skills.
- Two or more years in an engineering role exhibiting leadership skills.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and CAD.
- In-depth understanding of lithium battery technology, quality management systems, product knowledge, battery manufacturing processes and equipment, and related information systems. Basic understanding of design, development, production, and processes.
- Understands and follows all standards of IATF16949 and VDA 6.3 quality standards. (Training and awareness will be provided for those who are not familiar with these standards)
- Understands and follows all standards of ISO14001 environmental standards. (Training and awareness will be provided for those who are not familiar with these standards)
Nice to Have
- Knowledge and experience working in Lithium-ion battery manufacturing.
- Experience in automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier.
What We Offer
Welcome to AESC, supporting our state-of-the-art Gigafactories, where you'll have the opportunity to tackle the world's most fascinating challenges alongside exceptionally talented individuals who are driven to make a difference. At AESC, we offer a comprehensive compensation package. In addition, we provide a range of valuable benefits, such as 401K, and health insurance. We strive to ensure that our employees are well taken care of, enabling them to focus on their work and contribute to our collective mission of changing the world.
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.
- Highly automated, clean, safe, and temperature-controlled production environment
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- HSA and Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401K with company match
- Life Insurance (Company paid and additional voluntary life available)
- Paid Vacation and 14 Paid Holidays
- Short term and long-term disability coverage (Company Paid)
- Tuition reimbursement
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
- Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
- Ability to read, write, speak, hear; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach and lift with hands and arms frequently throughout the day.
- Required to occasionally lift, push, pull and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally required to lift, push, pull and/or move up to 35 pounds.
Work Environment
The work environment is primarily an automated manufacturing plant with a concrete floor and is characterized by some temperature extremes, moderate noise, and forklift traffic. The individual must be able to perform all essential functions as appropriate on the plant floor, in meetings, and with employees, management, customers and suppliers.