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TE Connectivity’s Customer Quality Reliability Engineer Manager is responsible for leading a team of engineers in North America to ensure product quality, reliability, and continuous improvement across the organization. This role involves overseeing strategic customer accounts quality and is responsible for ensuring that TE provides exceptional customer experience for the Digital Data Network (DDN) business unit within TE. This includes carrying out strategies to improve the overall customer experience by partnering closely with sales, engineering, and operations. A key aspect of this position is to establish a real time view of the customer’s experience to proactively monitor and support our key customer accounts, resolve quality problems in a timely manner, drive continual improvement, improve customer quality scorecards, and minimize the cost of poor quality by fulfilling customer requirements, being responsive, and building strong customer relationships. This position will report to the Manager of Global Quality Strategic Customer Accounts for the DDN business unit.
Position Responsibilities
1. Team Leadership:
o Manage and mentor a team of quality and reliability engineers.
o Assign tasks and projects to team members based on their skills and workload.
o Conduct regular performance evaluations and provide feedback for improvement.
o Leads cross-functional problem-solving teams to investigate quality issues and minimize customer impact, DPPM, cost of poor quality and drive timely resolution
2. Quality Assurance:
o Develop and implement quality control processes and procedures.
o Oversee customer quality audits, ensures compliance with TE quality policies and procedures related to customer requirements.
o Analyze quality data and metrics to identify trends and areas for improvement
3. Failure Analysis:
o Track and coordinate testing on products related to customer reported issues.
o Lead effective and efficient investigations using structured approaches such as fault trees to identify root cause and corrective actions.
o Interface with the customer on quality escalations and provides internal and external from a quality, reliability and customer requirements standpoint
4. Project Management:
o Lead quality and reliability improvement projects from inception to completion.
o Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality and reliability standards are met throughout the product lifecycle.
o Support supplier business reviews, customer audits and customer onsite support as needed.
o Partners closely with sales, engineering, and operations to ensure organizational alignment regarding setting targets and achieving quality objectives for our customers.
o Collaborate with Sales to establish trust with our customers by sharing DDN strategic quality roadmap.
o Regularly conduct reviews with key customers regarding DDNs quality reliability performance
5. Continuous Improvement:
o Identify opportunities for process optimization and cost reduction.
o Implement lean manufacturing principles and Six Sigma methodologies.
o Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in quality and reliability.
o Partners with engineering and sales to establish trust with our customers by sharing DDN strategic quality roadmap as well as resolving problems in a timely manner
6. Reporting and Communication:
o Prepare and present regular reports on quality and reliability metrics to senior management.
o Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including customers and suppliers, on quality-related matters and escalations.
o Provide the Voice of the Customer feedback with product management, product engineering and manufacturing locations for characteristics that can become quality or application risks to the customer
7. Tactical Initiatives:
o Tackle gaps and roadblocks across the organization as needed.
o Drive the pace and sense of urgency within the organization to ensure customer expectations are met.
o Bridge customer requests with internal functions for speedy resolution.
o Pull in the right people at the right time.
A successful CQE manager is someone who possesses the following competencies:
Motivating Others
Managing and Measuring Work
Building Effective Teams
Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork
SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, renewable energy, automated factories, data centers, medical technology and more. With more than 85,000 employees, including 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries. TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
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