Customer Account Quality Engineer (m/w/d)*
About us
SCHOTT Electronic Packaging is a leading developer and manufacturer of hermetic housings and other components for the reliable, long-term protection of sensitive electronics. Our core technologies are glass-to-metal and ceramic-to-metal sealing, thermal sensing components as well as a variety of cutting-edge specialty glass competences.
Your Contribution
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Customer Quality Management
- Serve as the primary coordination point between assigned customers and internal functions for quality, product qualification, and engineering change matters.
- Understand, document, communicate, and coordinate the implementation of customer requirements and customer-specific requirements.
- Coordinate customer deliverables and ensure agreed actions, reports, samples, and documentation are completed accurately and on time.
- Maintain clear records of customer requirements, open actions, approvals, commitments, and quality-related correspondence.
- Coordinate customer audits, surveys, questionnaires, scorecards, technical requests, and quality performance reviews.
- Lead customer complaint investigations using structured problem-solving methodologies such as 8D and root cause analysis.
- Coordinate containment, corrective, and preventive actions, and verify their implementation and effectiveness.
- Support customer meetings, qualification reviews, quality reviews, and business performance discussions.
- Escalate significant customer risks, recurring quality issues, delayed approvals, and overdue actions to the relevant management team.
- Monitor customer scorecard performance, customer satisfaction metrics, and quality-related KPIs, and drive improvement actions to achieve targets.
Product & Process Quality Support
- Monitor product quality, process stability, process capability, and relevant quality trends throughout the manufacturing process.
- Coordinate failure analysis using appropriate analytical and statistical techniques.
- Support containment and disposition activities for non-conforming products and processes.
- Apply appropriate quality tools, including SPC, MSA, FMEA, and statistical analysis.
- Facilitate cross-functional problem-solving and continuous improvement activities to reduce customer complaints, internal defects, scrap, and the recurrence of quality issues.
New Product Introduction (NPI) & Engineering Change Management
- Serve as the quality lead for new product introductions, product transfers, and engineering change activities.
- Conduct risk assessments for new products, process changes, material changes, supplier changes, and engineering changes, and ensure identified risks are effectively mitigated before product release or implementation.
- Define product acceptance criteria, inspection methods, control plans, and quality requirements.
- Support product and process feasibility reviews and ensure quality requirements are incorporated during development.
- Prepare, review, and maintain PPAP documentation and other qualification records.
- Coordinate qualification testing, reliability testing, sample submissions, Product Change Notifications (PCN), customer notifications, and customer approvals required prior to implementation.
- Review and approve quality-related specifications, drawings, procedures, and documentation changes.
- Collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams to ensure timely implementation of new products and engineering changes.
- Monitor post-launch and post-implementation quality performance and drive corrective actions where necessary.
- Support successful product launches by ensuring all quality deliverables are completed on time.
Your Profile
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Bachelor’s degree in Materials, Chemical, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline.
- 2–5 years of relevant experience in customer quality, customer account support, new product introduction, engineering change management, or manufacturing quality.
- Knowledge of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, MSA, IATF 16949, Minitab or equivalent statistical analysis tools, and SEM/EDX failure analysis is preferred.
Your Benefits
SCHOTT’s openness to promote your further development is just as great as our additional benefits.
Discover a special corporate culture where everyone has the opportunity to develop their entire potential.
At SCHOTT, you can expect a unique corporate culture where we emphasize equity, diversity, and inclusion. We know: motivated and committed employees are the precondition for the success of our company.
Free Parking; Further training and education; International assignments; Situative learning