What are the responsibilities and job description for the Customer Warranty Engineer position at KCM Technical?
Control Tower - Customer Plant Lead
The Customer Plant Lead (CPL) is the Voice of the Customer using warranty information, parts return information and service information to identify actionable issues. Working directly with the Manufacturing Plants Process Engineering Team and the Control Tower Pre-Analysts, the CPL will be responsible for identifying emerging issues quickly and developing a well-rounded and detailed problem statement to minimize the time required to triage and resolve customer concerns.
The specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead Short Loop Morning & Evening market meetings with new claims information
- Investigate warranty issues and assign to party responsible through GIMs (Global Issue Management)
- Work with plants to investigate processes that can be associated with warranty
- Expedite part analysis for results on high priority investigations as a result of Short Loop
- Communicate warranty and plant quality issues between Control Tower and plant vehicle engineering
- Ensure vehicle warranty is accurately documented, including broken clean points, and differentiating old vs new issues
- Ensure warranty claim coverage and portfolio for assigned product lines/plants
- Involvement in new launches FEW (Field Early Warning) focus
- Position is physically located at our powertrain manufacturing plant