At a Glance
- Tasks: Be the bridge between customers and production, ensuring top-notch quality in automotive seating.
- Company: Join Adient, a global leader in automotive seating with a diverse and inclusive culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, travel opportunities, and a chance to work in a dynamic environment.
- Other info: High travel role with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the automotive industry while developing your skills in quality management.
- Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and experience in automotive quality management required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
What can you expect? Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With more than 65,000 employees in 29 countries, Adient operates ~200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. We take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, please visit www.adient.com.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Interface between customer JIT and Trim production plant
- JIT on-site problem analysis and close feedback to Trim plant
- Verification of improvement action at JIT plants
- Coordination of sorting activities at JIT plants
- Supporting local Trim resident engineers with technical knowledge, organisation firewall set up and feedback loops
- Boundary book set up between OEM, JIT and Trim plant
- KPIs: customer satisfaction JIT, IRPPM, ICPPM, Firewall head count JIT, Firewall audits at JIT – including following up on improvement action plan
- Inspector Gauge R&R evaluation and inspector training
Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?
- Technical education (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical qualification)
- Proven professional experience in quality management within the automotive industry
- Experience in customer quality management and direct communication with OEMs and Tier 1 customers
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured approach to root cause analysis
- Good knowledge of automotive quality management tools and methodologies, e.g. VDA 6.3, 8D, FMEA, Poka-Yoke, Ishikawa, 5 Why
- Fluent English (written and spoken); German is an advantage
- High willingness to travel (approximately 70%)
Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.
We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Miroslav Luhovy on +421 32/741 30 58.
PRIMARY LOCATION: Birmingham
Sr Quality Engineer – Customer Liaison in Birmingham employer: Adient
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