Field Quality Engineer

Johnson Controls, Inc.; York (York County); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid vacation and holidays

Comprehensive benefits including 401K,

On the job training

Collaborative team environment

Safety focus

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Field Quality Engineer in York, PA to lead customer and field quality activities across multiple equipment platforms.

You will coordinate product technical support, warranty data, and field feedback to define fixes and improvements that enhance the customer experience. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 5+ years in manufacturing quality, strong problem solving (8D/9S), data analysis skills (Excel/Power BI), and the ability to travel

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, management or related discipline with 5+ years in quality in a low volume, high mix manufacturing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated success in customer and supplier interaction.
• Ability to travel up to 50% with peaks at higher levels.
• Lean methodologies and disciplined operating routines are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide Field Quality leadership across assigned product families to improve customer quality experience.
• Analyze data and report improvements to leadership for project formation and resourcing.
• Interact with customers, perform site visits, investigate root causes, and quantify benefits for quality improvements.
• Collaborate with Field Technical team to develop clear communication strategies and deliverables.
• Develop a defined project pipeline with priorities to maximize customer benefits and process improvements.
• Understand customer perception related to equipment performance and CTQ elements.
• Provide field-facing data analysis to support supplier and reliability improvements.

Skills

Quality analysis

Lean methodologies

Root cause analysis

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/related field

Tools

MS Excel

Power BI

Job description

Build your best future with the Johnson Controls team

As a global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet. Join a winning team that enables you to build your best future! Our teams are uniquely positioned to support a multitude of industries across the globe. You will have the opportunity to develop yourself through meaningful work projects and learning opportunities. We strive to provide our employees with an experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Become a member of the Johnson Controls family and thrive in an empowering company culture where your voice and ideas will be heard – your next great opportunity is just a few clicks away!

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and bonus!
• Paid vacation with additional paid holidays and sick time
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care – available day one
• On the job/cross training opportunities
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy
• A Day in the Life at Johnson Controls: https://on.jci.com/3CmsdwX

What you will do

The Field Quality Engineer will influence business bottom line results by leading, facilitating, and reporting Customer and Field related quality activities for each of our platforms. This role will bring improved connection between the customer and our internal functional teams.
The role will coordinate information from Product Technical Support teams, Field Teams via warranty and other data, Customer Interactions and Field Technicians to define the specific elements to be fixed or changed to improve the overall customer experience. In this role, your responsibilities will include oversight of all quality related aspects for each equipment platform, primarily including failure analysis and data gathering based on customer provided feedback, resulting in the development of a clearly defined project pipeline - which will include analysis of factors that are utilized to define each project.

This position will report to the Customer Product Quality Manager and is will be primarily located in the Airside Center of Excellence in York, PA.

How you will do it

• Provide Field Quality leadership across assigned product families with a focus on driving improved customer quality experience across their assigned equipment portfolio.
• Provide data and impact analysis of improvement opportunities to leadership for project formation and resourcing. This will include actively tracking metrics to quantify effectiveness and accountability for conversion of opportunities to tangible customer benefits.
• Interact with customers, execute site visits, gather information, and provide appropriate responses to direct customers of our equipment portfolio to remedy customer issues. This will include doing customer research and customer investigations to understand root cause and calculation of benefits for quality improvements.
• Partner with Field Technical team members to develop effective communication strategies that allow JCI to focus on critical improvement deliverable.
• Development of a clearly defined project pipeline with priorities in place to deliver maximum benefit to our customers and the SBU. Providing leadership with data and tools to quantify and champion impactful quality improvement projects will be key to driving a change in our quality culture.
• Develop a strong understanding of customer perception/experience as it relates to equipment performance, Critical To Quality (CTQ) elements.
• Provide field facing data analysis to facilitate supplier, reliability, and other quality improvements into existing processes.

What we look for Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, management or related discipline, including 5+ years of experience in quality in a low volume, high mix manufacturing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with demonstrated success in professional customer and supplier interaction.
• Ability to travel up to 50% with some peaks at higher levels.
• Solid interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and motivate associates and to interact with various departments throughout the organization
• Team oriented proactive change agent with a hands-on, collaborative approach in implementing and maintaining operating disciplines while leveraging lean methodologies
• Project management and planning tools, including monitoring of project activities and project trackers via relevant IT tools.
• Strong background in quality tools such as problem solving (9S/8D), strategy or A3 methodologies, FMEA, NCR, Deviations, CAPA.
• Preferred to have data analysis background (MS Excel/Power-Bi or similar)