Quality Resident Engineer

Lear Corporation; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lear Corporation in Fremont, CA seeks a on-site Customer Quality Liaison to manage quality concerns at the customer plant, coordinate with Lear assembly plants, and ensure rapid resolution of issues. The role focuses on protecting customer satisfaction and ensuring product conformance during new product launches.

The candidate will maintain robust communication with customer and engineering teams, travel to support plant quality, and uphold Lear’s safety and process standards.

Qualifications

• Provide interface between Lear Plants and customer on issues, new product launches.
• Be the face of Lear customer to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Serve as a link between the customer Plants and Lear assembly plants.

Responsibilities

• Operate on-site at the customer plant during required shifts to support quality and related issues.
• Daily notification of customer plant issues including quality, engineering or production.
• Maintain customer concern countermeasure list for plant issues.
• Coordinate quality and/or engineering issues that may jeopardize the customer and Lear.
• Inspect parts and assemblies for conformance to drawings and specifications.

Job description

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Job Description

Provide interface between Lear Plants and customer on issues, new product launches. Be the face of Lear customer to enhance customer satisfaction. Serve as a link between the customer Plants and Lear assembly plants. Immediate communication of any customer dissatisfactions, looking to minimize any of them. Keep customer metrics performance under the established goals and objectives .

Location: This position is based in Fremont, CA. Must be local to Fremont, CA or open to relocation.

Responsibilities

• This position must operate on-site at the customer assembly plant(s) during the required shift(s) to support plant quality and related issues.
• Daily notification of Customer plant issues including, Quality, Engineering or Production.
• Maintain customer concern countermeasure list for Plant issues.
• Prompt reply to customer concerns by requesting it to wire harness plant.
• Knowledge of Wire Harness Plant Quality and Production Procedures.
• Support to Customer quality issues.Support supplier quality issues.
• Knowledge of Wire Harness Inspection Standards.
• Able to communicate directly with Customer to address Quality issues.
• Able to dispute or reject, with data or empirical knowledge, any customer rejection that is not Lear’s responsibility.
• Immediate and permanent communication of quality issues at Customer location.
• Coordinate quality and /or engineering issues that may jeopardize the customer and / or Lear
• Support visits and meetings at the customer, providing quality / warranty issues, as required
• Ensures Lear’s quality complies with standards and specifications, workmanship standards.
• Inspects the product and/or audits processes based upon the drawing requirements.
• Requests and understands Inspection and Rework methods for solving quality issues at customer plant.
• Tracks and reduces rejected inventory.
• Verifies conformance of parts and assemblies to standards and specifications.
• Must follow all Lear’s and Customer safety guidelines, standards and procedures.
• Must be able to work at customer production line when his/her participation is required

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lear Corporation is committed to fair, merit‑based employment practices and equal opportunity.

We provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the position is located.