Senior Quality Engineer: Customer Liaison & JIT

Adient; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. Sr Quality Engineer – Customer Liaison is based in Barcelona, Spain. You will act as interface between customer JIT and Trim production, performing on-site problem analyses and coordinating improvement actions.

The role requires driving improvement actions, validating results, and supporting Trim engineers with technical knowledge and feedback loops. Travel about 70% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical qualification required.
• Professional quality management experience in automotive industry.
• Experience in customer quality management and direct OEM/Tier 1 communication.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured root-cause approach.
• Knowledge of automotive quality tools and methods (VDA 6.3, 8D, FMEA, Poka‑Yoke).
• Fluent English; German is a plus.
• Willingness to travel about 70%.

Responsibilities

• Interface between customer JIT and Trim production plant.
• Onsite JIT problem analyses with feedback to Trim plant.
• Verify improvement actions at JIT plants.
• Coordinate sorting activities at JIT plants.
• Support local Trim engineers with technical knowledge and feedback loops.
• Maintain boundary book between OEM, JIT and Trim plant.
• Monitor KPIs: customer satisfaction JIT, firewall metrics.
• Audit firewall processes and follow up on action plans.
• Inspector Gauge R&R evaluation and training.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

English fluency

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

VDA 6.3

8D

FMEA

Poka-Yoke

Ishikawa

5 Why

Job description

Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. Sr Quality Engineer – Customer Liaison is based in Barcelona, Spain. You will act as interface between customer JIT and Trim production, performing on-site problem analyses and coordinating improvement actions.

The role requires driving improvement actions, validating results, and supporting Trim engineers with technical knowledge and feedback loops. Travel about 70% is expected.