Travel-Ready Senior Quality Engineer: Customer Liaison

Adient; Alagón; Presencial; EUR 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Adient is seeking a Sr Quality Engineer - Customer Liaison to bridge customer JIT needs with Trim production. You will analyze issues on-site, drive corrective actions, and verify improvements at JIT plants, coordinating activities across OEM, JIT and Trim facilities.

The role requires strong quality management background in automotive, fluency in English, and willingness to travel extensively to support customers and production sites.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical qualification.
• Proven professional experience in automotive quality management.
• Experience in customer quality management with OEMs and Tier 1 customers.
• Strong analytical and root-cause problem-solving abilities.
• Knowledge of VDA 6.3, 8D, FMEA, Poka-Yoke, Ishikawa, 5 Why.
• Fluent English; German is an advantage.
• High willingness to travel (≈70%).

Responsabilidades

• Interface between customer JIT and Trim production plant.
• JIT onside problem analyses and close feedback to Trim plant.
• Verification of improvement action at JIT plants.
• Coordination of sorting activities at JIT plants.
• Support local Trim resident engineers with technical knowledge and feedback loops.
• Boundary book setup between OEM, JIT and Trim plant.
• KPIs include customer satisfaction JIT, IRPPM, ICPPM, Firewall head count JIT.
• Firewall audits at JIT and follow-up on improvement action plans.
• Inspector Gauge R&R evaluation and inspector training.

Conocimientos

Quality management

Root cause analysis

Analytical skills

Customer communication

English fluency

Travel readiness

German language (advantage)

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical qualification

Herramientas

VDA 6.3

8D

FMEA

Poka-Yoke

Ishikawa (Cause & Effect)

5 Why

Descripción del empleo

Adient is seeking a Sr Quality Engineer - Customer Liaison to bridge customer JIT needs with Trim production. You will analyze issues on-site, drive corrective actions, and verify improvements at JIT plants, coordinating activities across OEM, JIT and Trim facilities.

The role requires strong quality management background in automotive, fluency in English, and willingness to travel extensively to support customers and production sites.