Customer Quality Engineer

existing product performance and customer experience."
Manage all customer complaints through CIM or equivalent systems, ensuring timely communication, containment actions, and complete documentation.
Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions using structured problem-solving tools (8D, RCA, FMEA).

Essential Functions:

• Provide regular updates to customers, ensuring clarity, transparency, and alignment with expectations.

• Coordinate cross-functional involvement (production, engineering, maintenance, supply chain) for rapid resolution of customer concerns.

• Monitor customer-specific KPIs (PPM, DPU, RCCA closure rate, complaint rate etc.) and coordinate improvement actions

• Analyze product performance trends, warranty data, and field issues to identify risks and improvement opportunities.

• Support implementation and adherence to EQMS quality frameworks.

• Drive preventive actions to avoid recurrence of issues and contribute to long-term quality stability.

• Maintain product and process traceability expectations aligned with automotive and customer requirements.

• Act as the primary quality contact for customers, delivering professional, diplomatic, and fact-based communication.

• Prepare and present customer quality reports, issue analyses, and improvement plans.

• Participate in customer meetings, audits, and quality reviews to represent Eaton Sincan's quality performance.

• Maintain strong knowledge of automotive expectations regarding responsiveness, documentation accuracy, and escalation protocols.

• Support error-proofing, process control, and data discipline to reinforce zero-defect culture.

• Coordinate product return (0-km, warranty) investigations and manage field return analysis.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in quality engineering, customer quality, field quality, or related functions-preferably in an automotive or automotive-aligned environment.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of IATF 16949 and customer-specific requirements, including special characteristics, control plans, and audit expectations.

• Solid knowledge of APQP and PPAP requirements, documentation, evidence packs, and approval expectations

• High proficiency in structured problem-solving tools (8D, RCA, 5Why, Ishikawa, FMEA) and statistical methods such as SPC and MSA.

• Experience with warranty and field return analysis, including root cause identification, portal usage, and cost-of-poor-quality reduction.

• Strong command of traceability systems, error-proofing (Poka-Yoke), and process control methodologies to support zero-defect expectations.

• Ability to manage customer communication with high technical clarity, diplomacy, OEM-style terminology, and escalation-avoidance best practices.

• Competence in reading and interpreting technical drawings, specifications, tolerance analyses, and measurement data.

• English (written and spoken) ,Turkish

• Intercultural awareness and the ability to work effectively with diverse customer and internal teams.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with strong clarity in both written and verbal interactions.

• High ownership, self-motivation, and initiative, consistently taking responsibility for results.

• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to coordinate and collaborate effectively across functions without formal authority.

• Exceptional diplomacy and conflict-management capability, including the ability to de-escalate customer tensions professionally.

• Customer-focused mindset, demonstrating responsiveness, empathy, and a service-oriented approach.

• Ability to balance customer expectations with internal constraints, ensuring realistic commitments and sustainable solutions.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, promoting alignment and teamwork across all departments.

• Effective stakeholder-management skills, including clear communication, structured reporting, and confidence in customer-facing discussions.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package

• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team

• We make your aspirations matter - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible

• We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University.

• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies.

• We make your wellbeing matter - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen.

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