Eaton's Electrical division is currently seeking a Customer Quality Engineer to join our team in Woodridge, IL.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $71,000 - $105,000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

The Customer Quality Engineer is responsible for managing customer quality issues and warranty performance across an operating business unit. The individual will be the Quality liaison on customer quality issues including interfacing with Service, Product Management, Operations, Engineering, Sales, and customers. This position supports failure analysis of Eaton power quality and power distribution products to determine root cause and identify corrective and preventive actions to improve quality, increase product reliability, and customer satisfaction. The position will provide reports to document findings for distribution to internal and external customers, quality support for resolution of reported customer quality issues and assist in new product development projects including project quality deliverables and activities to assure quality of new product releases. The position recommends corrective and preventive actions with the goal to increase process performance metrics and product reliability. In addition, the position manages the logistics of nonconforming material including administration, inbound/outbound and disposition of product in collaboration with Test and Quality team members.

What you'll do:

• Monitor product shipments and field performance to drive investigations and root cause identification assuring closed loop short term and long-term corrective/preventive actions to:
  • Improve warranty CONC performance and achieve divisional goals
  • Improve product line field performance (DPPM) and achieve divisional goals
  • Improve customer satisfaction
• Extract product performance data and maintain a failure information database including root cause, corrective, and preventive actions as a feedback loop to improve product quality
• Foster an environment that promotes Eaton's financial and aspirational goals, encouraging continuous improvement through participation and teamwork
• Assist in facilitating and supporting company internal and external audits
• Maintain internal documentation control system of all company processes and procedures
• Adhere to all environmental, health, and safety policies and procedures and work procedures

This role could be the next step in your career if you demonstrate the following experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited educational institution
• 3 years of Quality Engineering or related Engineering experience

You will set yourself apart by demonstrating some or all of the following:

• Master's Degree from an accredited educational institution
• Six Sigma Belt (Green, Black) certified
• Statistical tools and methods (Minitab)
• ASQ CQE or CMQ/OE Certification
• Knowledge of design, validation, manufacturing, and test
• Knowledge of electrical power quality and distribution products and systems
• SAP experience
• Project Management experience
• Power BI experience

We will not consider candidates who:

• No relocation assistance is available for this position. Candidates must be located within a 50-mile radius of Woodridge, IL. Active Duty Military Service Member candidates are exempt from these geographic requirements.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Keys to role success:

• Ability to demonstrate advanced problem-solving skills and methods -i.e., Six Sigma, A3, 5-Why, 8D, root cause analysis, and the associated statistical tools used to analyze problems, evaluate root cause, and identify corrective and preventive actions to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ability to demonstrate interpersonal skills with the ability to lead projects across functions and organizations.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization, in virtual teams (across different locations), and cross-cultural environments
• Ability to effectively demonstrate verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask, complete projects with tight deadlines
• Ability to communicate with internal and external customers in critical situations
• Ability to support multiple teams and product lines across multiple locations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, specifically Excel

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates' privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.