Quality Engineer

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a major supplier of automotive electronics and advanced safety systems. With a strong focus on innovation and quality, they have established themselves as a key player in the automotive industry, both domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Thorough understanding of customers’ quality manuals and procedures.
• Thorough understanding of customer specifications, testing methods and procedures.
• Assistance in team program management and liaison with customers in Japan as these activities relate to quality, testing, or validation.
• Development and negotiation of customer inspection standards.
• Educate customers on internal standards and capabilities.
• Product defect inspection, negotiation, countermeasure discussions at customers, and subsequent communication back to Headquarters.
• PPM tracking and reporting.
• 8D/customer specific defect reply development with QE and submission to customer.
• When necessary, management of sorting/inspection at customers which may include sourcing and supervision of contract sorting/inspection companies.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Process countermeasure support.
• Competitive benchmarking.
• Sales engineering support.
• Japanese vendor evaluation/specification negotiation.

Requirements

• Technical/Scientific degree required.
• 3 years automotive customer quality experience, with Japanese auto manufacturers.
• Extensive transpacific and domestic Japan travel expected.
• Close interaction with customer assembly facilities.
• Computer and analytical skills required.
• Bilingual - Japanese/English required (TOEIC 630 or higher)

Salary

4.5 - 9 million yen

Location

Aichi