LG Electronics

Sr. Auto Professional (CS, PM, VE)

LG Electronics$90K — $120K *
Troy, MI 48085In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in quality, engineering or related field required.
  • 10+ years of experience in the Automotive industry, with at least 5+ years in a related field.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and quality management tools (e.g. Six Sigma).
  • Bilingual in English and Korean preferred, with effective communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the initial contact for business-related issues and ensure prompt resolutions.
  • Liaise between customers and internal teams to facilitate communication.
  • Analyze customer requirements and provide tailored solutions to quality challenges.
  • Monitor mass production quality and support customer targets through evaluations.
  • Manage and resolve mass production issues efficiently to meet customer demand.
  • Conduct market research to identify trends and prepare detailed quality reports for management.
  • Oversee vendor management for local sorting service providers, ensuring quality compliance.

Benefits

  • Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance covered at 100% for employees.
  • 401(K) plan with company match.
  • Paid vacation and sick leave.
  • Lunch provided.
Full Job Description
Please clearly state which position you are applying for in your application (CS, PM, VE)

Initial Communication & Issue Resolution:
  • Serve as the first point of contact for any business-related issues, ensuring prompt and effective resolution.
  • Function as a liaison between customers and internal teams, facilitating clear and timely communication.

Coordination with Headquarters (HQ):
  • Work closely with HQ to monitor and resolve issues, ensuring alignment with company policies and procedures.
  • Provide regular updates to HQ on program quality status, customer feedback, and potential risk and any challenges.

Customer Requirement Analysis & Solution Provision:
  • Clarify customer requirements through detailed discussions and documentation.
  • Provide tailored solutions to address both business and quality-related challenges.

Customer Support & Quality Collaboration:
  • Assist customers in resolving technical and operational issues, ensuring smooth project execution.
  • Collaborate with customer support team and quality teams to develop and implement effective solutions.

Mass Production Quality Control & Monitoring:
  • Evaluate the status of mass production quality to support customer's quality target and maintain the qualification for new business in a timely manner.
  • Work with HQ quality / customer support teams to ensure alignment with customer expectations and delivery for quality controls and resolutions.
  • Ensure worldwide Quality leadership and Intimacy and Top QBR Customer Quality Rankings and Scores

Mass Production Issue Management:
  • Manage and resolve issues related to mass production, ensuring customer demand is met efficiently.
  • Implement corrective actions to prevent recurring issues and improve production processes

3rd Party inspection service Vendor Management:
  • Survey of local sorting service providers in response to headquarters' quality requests.
  • Assessing the current status and level of automated responses for new vendors.
  • Regular on-site inspections for vendor management.

Meeting Coordination & Facilitation:
  • Arrange and facilitate meetings for design, innovative technology promotion, process, and business discussions between LG Display and customers.
  • Ensure all stakeholders are aligned on project goals, timelines, and deliverables.

Local Staff Supervision & Coordination:
  • Supervise and coordinate local staff for executive management meetings, ensuring smooth execution.
  • Provide guidance and support to local teams in daily operations, including customs clearance, shipment tracking, and sample/service/seed stock orders.

Business Travel & Customer Support:
  • Conduct business trips to manufacturing sites or HQ to support customer visits and project reviews.
  • Function as a key representative during customer visits, ensuring a positive and productive experience.

Daily Operations & Administrative Tasks:
  • Supervise and advise local staff in daily operations, including SPPS/Q-dap, defect sample shipment tracking, and sample/service/seed stock status.
  • Ensure all administrative tasks are completed accurately and on time.

Monthly Closing & Compliance:
  • Perform monthly closing activities, including Customer Quality reporting, Open issue management, and performance tracking.
  • Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Market Research & Reporting:
  • Conduct comprehensive market research to identify industry trends, customer preferences(e.g. quality target), and competitive landscape.
  • Prepare detailed quality reports and presentations for senior management, providing actionable insights.

Additional Duties:

Take on additional responsibilities as assigned by management, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability.

Initial Communication & Issue Resolution:
  • Serve as the first point of contact for any business-related issues, ensuring prompt and effective resolution.
  • Function as a liaison between customers and internal teams, facilitating clear and timely communication.

Coordination with Headquarters (HQ):
  • Work closely with HQ to monitor and resolve issues, ensuring alignment with company policies and procedures.
  • Provide regular updates to HQ on project status, customer feedback, and potential challenges.

Customer Requirement Analysis & Solution Provision:
  • Clarify customer requirements through detailed discussions and documentation.
  • Provide tailored solutions to address both business and engineering-related challenges.

Customer Support & Engineering Collaboration:
  • Assist customers in resolving technical and operational issues, ensuring smooth project execution.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to develop and implement effective solutions.

Program Leadership & Ownership:
  • Own and manage assigned programs across the full product lifecycle, including program award, development, supplier selection, launch, series production, post-production performances and lessons learned, in alignment with the LGD product delivery process lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary, cross functional teams to achieve program objectives related to timing, quality and customer satisfaction.
  • Establish, maintain, and monitor top-level programs plans, including customer milestones, internal deliverables, and resource requirements.

Customer & Stakeholder interface:
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for customers on assigned programs, leading all program-related communications.
  • Build strong customer relationships and represent with professionalism, accountability, and transparency.
  • Participate in lessons-learned analyses for both awarded and lost business opportunities.

Meeting Coordination & Facilitation:
  • Arrange and facilitate meetings for design, innovative technology promotion, process, and business discussions between LG Display and customers.
  • Ensure all stakeholders are aligned on project goals, timelines, and deliverables.

Program Execution & Performance:
  • Deliver business results that meet or exceed LGD expectations for awarded programs, with clear accountability for timing, quality performance.
  • Regularly communicate program status, risks, and mitigation plans to internal teams and management steering committees.
  • Coordinate and monitor program documentation, schedules, technical performance (including tooling, and capacity), quality deliverables, and production readiness.
  • Proactively manage risks, implement countermeasures, and escalate issues when required.

Change, Risk & Production Management:
  • Lead the global Change Management process, ensuring alignment to design, specifications, cost, and timing commitments.
  • Manage the Series Production phase, including claims management, change execution, continuous improvement initiatives, ECR/APQP change/validation change activities, and ongoing commercial negotiations.
  • Ensure sufficient resources are planned and allocated to support quality, timing, safety, and security objectives.

Compliance, Quality & Safety:
  • Ensure programs are executed in accordance with Supplier Quality Management System (SQMS) requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable automotive standards and customer-specific requirements, including IATF 16949, Automotive SPICE, ISO 17025.
  • Maintain working knowledge of APQP and regulations and ensure all program activities are performed in a safe manner.

Business Travel & Customer Support:
  • Conduct business trips to manufacturing sites or HQ to support customer visits and project reviews.
  • Function as a key representative during customer visits, ensuring a positive and productive experience.


Core Responsibilities:
  • Define test strategy based on requirements and specifications regarding Automotive product.
  • Identify failures, root cause issues and recommend fixes.
  • Create scripts/tools to improve testing efficiency.
  • Write validation reports, test procedures, and compliance document.(Ensuring all equipment, systems, and processes adhere to Automotive standards)
  • Ability to communicate effectively with customers based on a solid understanding of vehicle simulation bench architecture and test environments.
  • Maintenance and management of test Bench equipment

System Requirement Analysis & Test Case Generation:
  • Clarify system requirements through detailed discussions and documentation.
  • Provide tailored solutions to address both technical and engineering-related challenges.

Customer Support & Engineering Collaboration:
  • Assist customers in resolving technical and operational issues, ensuring smooth project execution.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to develop and implement effective solutions.

Compliance, Quality & Safety:
  • Ensure programs are executed in accordance with Supplier Quality Management System (SQMS) requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable automotive standards and customer-specific requirements, including IATF 16949, Automotive SPICE, ISO 17025.
  • Maintain working knowledge of safety policies and regulations and ensure all program activities are performed in a safe manner.

Business Travel & Customer Support:
  • Conduct business trips to manufacturing sites or HQ to support customer visits and project reviews.
  • Function as a key representative during customer visits, ensuring a positive and productive experience.

Requirements

Educational Background:

Bachelor's degree in quality, engineering or related field required.

Professional Experience:
  • 10+ years of experience in Automotive industry with at least 5+ years in the related field
  • Proven history of managing complex projects and leading cross-functional teams.

Confidentiality & Information Management:

Ability to manage sensitive and confidential information appropriately, ensuring data security and compliance.

Knowledge, Technical Skills, Abilities:
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate complex quality topics for varied audiences.
  • Solid understanding of applicable quality systems and regulations. (e.g. ISO17025, IATF16949, GMW3197 etc.)
  • Effective program management skills with ability to coordinate actions across functions and sites.
  • Ability to demonstrate business insight and dive growth.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
  • Familiarity with quality management tools and software (e.g. Six sigma, VDA6.3, etc.).
  • Willingness (Ability) to travel as required for business purposes.

Language Proficiency:
  • English (preferred Bilingual in Korean and English).
  • Ability to communicate effectively with global clients and internal teams.

Benefits

Heath, Dental and Vision and Life Insurance covered at 100% for employees

401(K) plan with company match

Paid Vacation/Sick

Lunch provided

About LG Electronics

LG Electronics Inc. is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea. LG Electronics is a part of the LG Corporation, the fourth-largest chaebol in South Korea, and its global sales reached US$55.91 billion in 2014. It comprises four business units: Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliances & Air Solutions and Vehicle Components, with Starion India as its main production vendor for refrigeration and washing machines in the Indian sub-continent. LG Electronics acquired Zenith in 1995 and controls 37.9 percent of LG Display as of 2013. Since 2008, LG Electronics remains the world's fourth-largest LCD television manufacturer. The company has 128 operations worldwide, employing 83,000 people.
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