Customer Quality Specialist

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This position reports to:

Production Development Manager__The work model for the role is:
Onsite, Mebane, NCYour role and responsibilities:

In this role as Customer Quality Specialist, you will have the opportunity to support the deployment of the quality strategy for a local organizational unit, including quality culture, systems, tools, and competent teams with the aim to achieve and exceed customer expectations, while ensuring sustainable operations. Each day, you will assist the organization in achieving the right mix of prevention, continuous improvement, robust root cause analysis, quick response, and sustainable solutions to problems.

You will also showcase your expertise by collaborating with local functions that impact the quality results to reach the targets for the organizational unit and aim for world-class performance.

You will be mainly accountable for:

Define, deploy and support a Quality Culture within local ABB, by assuring and controlling Quality with systems, tools and teams to exceed customer expectations while ensuring sustainable operations.

Support and maintain the Quality Management System of the local unit, including all aspects managed in line with ABB Group/Division/BU guidance.

Represents the Voice of the Customer within local teams;
Manages the customer quality issues, perform root cause analysis and lead the implementation of the corrective actions to solve the customer quality issues.

Challenges the teams with customer experience feedback and input to decisions;
Enable and coach employees to evaluate risks, problems and solutions from a customer/stakeholder point of view.

Qualifications for the role:

Bachelor degree in Electrical/Electronic/Mechanical Engineering or related field, preferred

Minimum 2 years relevant work experience in Incoterms knowledge, customer experience success, project execution, and supply chain, OR Associate degree in Engineering or related field PLUS minimum 4 years relevant work experience OR High School Diploma/GED PLUS 6 years of relevant work experience

Lean six sigma green belt certification, preferred

Advanced communication skills (written and verbal) within the organization and customers

Microsoft Office skills

Basic knowledge of lean manufacturing, 5S, 8D reports, PPAP, preferred

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