Customer Quality Engineer

Nidec; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nidec is seeking a Customer Quality Engineer to manage key accounts, drive quality improvements, and resolve customer issues across global teams. The role emphasizes APQP participation, PPAP submissions, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and manufacturing.

The candidate should have a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years in quality or manufacturing, with familiarity in ISO/IATF standards and problem-solving using 8D/5 Whys. Some travel to customer sites is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3+ years in quality or manufacturing engineering.
• Experience with automotive quality systems and APQP/DVP.
• Strong problem-solving using 8D, 5 WHYs, and related tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategy to manage specific customer accounts.
• Lead customer quality issue resolution and communicate effectively.
• Interact with global teams and occasionally travel to customer sites.
• Maintain quality KPIs (PPM) and costs.
• Support new product launches and APQP/AQP activities.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Customer communication

Quality engineering

SPC tools

ISO 14001 / IATF 16949

Microsoft Office

Excel

Access

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Access

ERP

QAD

Job description

We begin with dreams. Dreams drive our motivation. Dreams are our future. The world's dreams, people's dreams, our dreams. Our passion creates ideas that make dreams come alive. Technology and products that were only dreams become reality.

All for dreams. Dreams challenge and the Nidec-Group will continue to meet the challenge. For the world's and people's tomorrows; the world's first, the world's best technologies and products; we will continue our part in creating a better society.

Job Summary

Job Description

Objective

Works with interdepartmental Engineers / technical colleagues in a team environment to manage key customer accounts for Quality, leading / solving product problems. The Customer Quality Engineer 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
• Interacts 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
• 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, as necessary, entail New Product Launch activity which would require FMEA Moderator training.

Experience: 3+ years' experience

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Certifications: N/A

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• High attention to Detail and Accuracy
• Analytical thinking and working knowledge of problem solving techniques (i.e. paretos, cause and effect, histograms).
• Technical thinking and core tool knowledge as well as knowledge of plating, plastic molding, metal stamping and/or welding is a plus.
• Written and verbal communication with customers (internal & external)
• Quality engineering / Manufacturing engineering experience in automated high volume production environment within automotive industry.
• Familiarity with implementation / use of various charts, corrective action programs, simple DOE, and other SPC tools.
• Limited knowledge of soldering, electronic components and PCB assembly is a plus.
• Expertise with ISO 14001 / IATF 16949
• Strong PC skills (Microsoft Office, Word and Excel and Access).

Scope of Supervision: N/A

Travel Required: up to 15%

Physical Demand (Special Considerations):

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is consistently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to walk, kneel/squat and bend. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds.

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

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

This position description has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of essential job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee will possess the skills, aptitudes, competencies and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirem