Sr. Staff Customer and Product Quality Engineer
ZT Systems · Secaucus, NJ
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 13 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at ZT Systems (industrial) in Secaucus, NJ. Be an advocate for the customer through excellent knowledge of ZT manufacturing process, timely follow through, and customer focus.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Root cause
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About the role
About the Role
The Sr. Staff Customer and Product Quality Engineer works with both our customers and internal teams seamlessly from NPI (New Product Introduction) to high-volume mass production hyperscale / AI Server Systems for global marquee customers. Reporting to Sr. Manager of Product and Customer Quality, the Team Lead will act as an escalation point for our customer and lead our customer quality and product quality engineers who serve as the customer’s advocate in driving resolution of issues and continuous improvement. The team is responsible for resolving customer quality issues and ensuring our customer is delighted, while root causing the problem and corrective action to its source including design, process, materials/suppliers, and/or test.
requirements
and help the company incorporate into our strategic goals
- ✓Project planning experience
- ✓Possess relationship management abilities; strong customer-facing skills
- ✓Experience in working within a global organization is a plus
- ✓Demonstrated success working in dynamic organization while leading a team through objectives with multiple priority levels
- ✓Experience in leading and mentoring less-experienced team members
- ✓Experience creating win-win scenarios with multiple stakeholders/interests to gain buy-in to meet quality objectives
- ✓Excellent data diagnostic & analytical skills
- ✓Knowledge of database/reporting systems, strong Excel skills
Base salary is just one component of ZT Systems total rewards philosophy. We take pride in offering a wide range of benefits and perks that appeal to the variety of needs across our diverse employee base. Other rewards may include bonus, paid time off, generous 401k match, tuition reimbursement, wellbeing resources, and more.
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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About ZT Systems
At ZT Systems, a Sanmina Company, you’ll get to do work you are proud of alongside smart, passionate people. Every day, there are opportunities to collaborate with the best in the industry to design, build, and deliver impactful solutions to world-class customers. Along the way, you will gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment that’s challenging, rewarding, and career-defining.
A culture built around our values we work hard and think fast. We view challenges as opportunities—to do better, push harder, and be faster than we were the day before. When we fail, we learn from it and move on together. And when we succeed, we use the momentum to go even further. We create value with everything we do, building the foundation of today—and transforming the future of tomorrow.
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What We Offer
At ZT Systems, a Sanmina Company, we believe that investing in our people is key to our continued growth and innovation. When you join our team, you’ll gain access to a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package designed to support your well-being, financial security, and professional development—both now and in the future.
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Job Description
What You’ll Do
- •Interface with key customers and suppliers to ensure customer satisfaction and customer scorecard expectations are met
- •Provide day-to-day guidance and escalation points to customer and other product quality engineers
- •Successfully drive resolution of customer issues within agreed-upon service level agreement
- •Mitigation of quality issues that impact the customer and internal operations
- •Identify systematic/process improvements involving customer quality excursions by working with multiple cross-functional teams including manufacturing, supplier, and design/sustaining engineering
- •Strive to build a continuous improvement mentality to develop and ensure a data-driven proactive quality culture
- •Work with customers to clearly define factory build report expectations including frequency of reports, expected data, and response to excursions
- •Host quality-related customer visits and audits
- •Be an advocate for the customer through excellent knowledge of ZT manufacturing process, timely follow through, and customer focus
What You’ll Bring
- •An Engineering BS degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, or similar field and 8+ years of experience, preferably in the Computer or Electronic Manufacturing industries (alternatively an MS and 6 + years experience).
- •Experience /certification in Lean / Six Sigma is strongly desired
- •Track both internal and external customer quality issues across multi-functional teams including Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Suppliers to timely and meaningful resolutions.
- •Must be capable of effectively interfacing at all levels of the organization including the executive level both internally and with the customer
- •Proven ability to drive complex issues to closure in a timely manner and clearly communicate status updates and the results
- •Manage quality issue diagnosis, root-cause determination, and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions with the appropriate team(s)
- •Review failure analysis and corrective action reports through well-managed customer-facing communications
- •Communicate customer feedback regarding quality and reliability performance against customer