Customer Quality Engineer

As a Customer Quality Engineer (CQE), you will be responsible for ensuring customer quality requirements are met and lead the resolution of customer quality issues across the product lifecycle. You will be the primary quality liaison between customers and internal cross functional teams, driving root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives. The CQE plays a critical role in maintaining customer satisfaction, compliance with quality standards, and sustained product and process performance.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Quality & Issue Management

• Lead resolution of customer quality issues, ensuring compliance with the QMS, effective use of ETQ, and ownership of final RCA response and closure.

• Manage customer claims, concerns, and complaints through timely containment, RCA, permanent action verification, response, and closure.

• Serve as the escalation point for highseverity customer issues, supporting rapid resolution and customer satisfaction.

• Ensure customerspecific requirements are understood, documented, and embedded in internal processes, representing the voice of the customer during MOC activities.

• Act as gatekeeper for the Customer Feedback (ETQ) process, with authority to review, prioritize, approve, and close requests; validate root cause effectiveness; authorize corrective actions; and ensure actions are implemented, verified, and sustained.

Root Cause Analysis & Corrective Action

• Lead structured problem solving using recognized or customerrequired methodologies (e.g., 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone, Is/Is Not).

• Coordinate crossfunctional teams to investigate internal and external nonconformances.

• Ensure root causes are evidencebased and corrective and preventive actions address systemic failure modes with urgency and sustainability, including applicability to similar technologies or processes.

• Partner with regional quality leadership to share RCA learnings across PPG sites to mitigate risk of recurrence.

Customer Communication & Relationship Management

• Serve as the primary contact for customer quality issues, representing PPG professionally during customer meetings, reviews, and audits.

• Provide clear, timely communication on issue status, risks, investigations, escalations, and recovery plans to manage customer expectations.

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with customer plant leadership and engineering teams.

• Proactively identify quality risks and coordinate preventive actions aligned with the PPG plant quality management system.

Quality Systems, Standards & Audits

• Promote compliance with customerspecific requirements (CSRs), IATF standards, and PPG internal standards (APQP, FMEA, LPA).

• Lead customerspecific audits for customers in escalation status, in partnership with the QA Manager.

• Drive datadriven continuous improvement initiatives to reduce complaint rates and improve quality performance.

• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Supply Chain, Sales, Planning, Technical Laboratories, and Customer Service to resolve issues and improve customer scorecard performance.

• Support packaging, handling, storage, logistics, and transportation quality initiatives as needed.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Number and severity of customer complaints

• Repeat complaint rate

• Timeliness and effectiveness of root cause analysis and corrective actions

• Open and past due customer action items

• Customer satisfaction feedback and performance scorecards

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience in technical development, customer quality, manufacturing quality, or automotive engineering.

• Demonstrated knowledge of problem solving methodologies and quality tools.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced, customer focused environment.

• The person who will be successful in this role is comfortable driving cross-functional teams without direct authority while creating an atmosphere of collaboration, respect, and a continuous improvement.

• Strong judgment and decision making skills, with the ability to evaluate data, assess risk, and make sound, timely decisions in a customer facing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

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