Customer Quality Engineer
Nidec · Illinois
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Travel
- 15%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 7 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Nidec (industrial) in Illinois. To perform this job successfully, the employee will possess the skills, aptitudes, competencies and abilities to perform each duty proficiently.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, SPC, FMEA, PPAP, APQP, Control plans
- Day to day
- about 15% travel
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How this role compares
Against 40 other live quality postings in Illinois.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (3+ years)
Typical $96k–$125k, from 28 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 49%
- ✓ Root cause 46%
- Supplier quality 44%
- ✓ SPC 39%
- ✓ Team leadership 39%
- ✓ FMEA 34%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Stamping, Welding, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Nidec
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- 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?
- The posting says about 15% travel. Between which sites?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
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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.
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Certifications: 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
requirements
listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities.
NOTE : This position Is Not open to external sourcing (Recruiting agencies)
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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.
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
