
Customer Quality Engineer
Gentex · Zeeland, MI
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- 2 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Gentex (automotive) in Zeeland, MI. Join a company driven by quality products across an evolving range of industries.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- FMEA
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Michigan: typical posted base $87k–$149k.
Median of the low and high ends of 24 live postings that list pay, out of 77 quality engineer openings in Michigan, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Michigan plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 76 other live quality postings in Michigan.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)
Typical $87k–$149k, from 23 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 69%
- ✓ FMEA 53%
- PPAP 49%
- Control plans 43%
- Six Sigma 38%
- SPC 38%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
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This plant: Gentex in Zeeland
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Full description from GentexAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
At Gentex, you’ll help create innovative technologies that improve how people live, travel, and stay connected. Join a company driven by quality products across an evolving range of industries.
Position overview
The Customer Quality Engineer is the point of contact with our customers regarding quality-related matters and to help ensure our products meet our customers’ expectations.
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What you’ll do
- •Utilize technical expertise to work with problem resolution teams, offer customer perspective, and communicate with the customer when quality issues arise.
- •Communicate customer expectations to the appropriate Gentex teams (lab/production/design).
- •Provide pulse of assigned customer(s) back to the organization.
- •Support risk management during product development utilizing risk identification methods and Gentex’s Milestone process.
- •Prepare and submit the required quality documentation to the customer for new product launches and post-launch changes.
- •Assist to develop and maintain FMEAs and control documentation to effectively manage risk and meet customer expectations.
- •Maintain a high level of awareness and knowledge of Gentex technologies (product standards/specifications and operational technologies/capabilities).
- •Other duties as assigned.
How you’ll do it
- •Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- •Problem solving - Defining a problem, determining the cause, identifying, prioritizing and selecting alternatives for a solution, and implementing a solution.
- •Managing complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- •Quality focus - Promoting and maintaining high standards of work, looking for ways to improve products and services, while encouraging coworkers to do so as well.
- •Building collaborative relationships - Developing, maintaining, and strengthening partnerships with others inside or outside the organization.
- •Maintain a high level of confidentiality, honesty and integrity with respect to company matters.
- •Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
What to bring
- •Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quality or a related field or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- •3+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing, engineering, or quality environment.
- •High ability to interact and influence customers using accurate overviews supported by detail.
- •Ability to travel domestically and internationally, as necessary.
- •Ability to accurately assess facts/situations in directing decision making process.
- •Ability to understand and communicate engineering concepts, requirements, and processes.
- •Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
What will help
- •Experience working closely with operations teams.
- •Knowledge of applicable industry standards.
- •Practical insight into organizational processes.
- •Strong service mindset towards operations and assigned teams.
Assistance
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