Supports automotive manufacturing customers by investigating rejected parts and quality issues, collecting defective products, preparing quality reports, coordinating containment activities, and assisting with root-cause analysis. The role attends customer meetings and trial builds, communicates findings to internal quality and engineering teams, and helps maintain customer satisfaction. Regular customer visits, automotive glass inspection, manufacturing-process knowledge, reporting, problem-solving, and physical handling of products are required.
Job Title: Customer Liaison Engineer
Job Summary:To provid feedback to FGA on quality and inventory at customer locations. Prepare reports that accurately describe defects to the appropriate parties at FGA. Investigate and contain quality issues in a timely manner. Maintain and help improve customer satisfaction through effective communication and professional conduct at all times.
Job Functions:
- Regular visits to the assigned OEM s, Dealers, and Warranties to collect, analyze, and negotiate rejected parts.
- Provide regular quality reports to FGA contact list (Quality, Advanced Quality, Liaison Manager, Sales, etc.)
- Visit customer to pick up defective products to be returned to FGA for further analysis after receiving notification from the customer
- Organize containment activities if needed. Attend trial builds and provide detailed information, pictures, and any items to help FGA achieve success.
- Represent FGA to attend customer meetings upon request.
- Assist customer engineering to help investigate root cause analysis
- Other duties as assigned Nothing in the Position Description restricts management's right to assign or re-assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time
Qualifications
- English - Ability to read, understand and comprehend documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
- Ability to speak effectively and interact with other team members, engineers, leadership and customers
- 1 to 3 years manufacturing experience and /or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred
- High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)
- The employee is regularly required to stand for long periods
- Duties include turning at the waist, reaching, bending, squatting and lifting up to 50 pounds. Ability to pass static strength requirements (grip)
- Visual acuity including, but not limited to:
- Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less. Use this factor when special and minute accuracy is demanded
- Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more. Use this factor when visual efficiency in terms of far acuity is required in day and night/dark conditions
- Three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are
- Ability to identify and distinguish colors
- Observing an area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Safety requirements for this position are safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, and steel-toed work boots
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables
- Knowledge of and familiarity manufacturing software, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Familiar with the FGA manufacturing processes for their customer location's products.
- Familiar with the FGA inspection methods of automotive glass
- Have the ability to problem solve
- Strong communication skills both verbal and through reporting
Similar Jobs
Industrial • Manufacturing
Visits OEMs, dealers, and warranty locations to investigate rejected and defective automotive glass parts, collect quality data, prepare reports, coordinate containment activities, support trial builds, and assist with root-cause investigations. The role represents the company in customer meetings, communicates findings to internal quality and engineering teams, and helps maintain customer satisfaction.
Top Skills:
Automotive Glass Inspection MethodsManufacturing SoftwareExcelMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft Powerpoint
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software • App development • Generative AI
Leads pricing advisory and sales operations for B2B SaaS, including deal structuring, commercial strategy, value-based pricing, financial modeling, price book management, enablement, and pricing optimization. Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, Finance, Deal Desk, and Legal to improve commercial processes, pricing decisions, and sales productivity.
Top Skills:
SalesforceSalesforce CpqZuora
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software • App development • Generative AI
Drive new business sales for BlackLine’s SaaS platform to mid-market accounting and finance teams. Responsibilities include prospecting, pipeline development, quota attainment, discovery, presentations, negotiations, forecasting, Salesforce documentation, territory planning, and collaboration on RFPs, demos, contracts, and implementations. The role requires selling finance or accounting software, building executive relationships, traveling within North America, and maintaining customer satisfaction.
Top Skills:
Blackline ApplicationsSaaSSalesforce
What you need to know about the Austin Tech Scene
Austin has a diverse and thriving tech ecosystem thanks to home-grown companies like Dell and major campuses for IBM, AMD and Apple. The state’s flagship university, the University of Texas at Austin, is known for its engineering school, and the city is known for its annual South by Southwest tech and media conference. Austin’s tech scene spans many verticals, but it’s particularly known for hardware, including semiconductors, as well as AI, biotechnology and cloud computing. And its food and music scene, low taxes and favorable climate has made the city a destination for tech workers from across the country.
Key Facts About Austin Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 180,500; 13.7% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Dell, IBM, AMD, Apple, Alphabet
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, hardware, cloud computing, software, healthtech
- Funding Landscape: $4.5 billion in VC funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Live Oak Ventures, Austin Ventures, Hinge Capital, Gigafund, KdT Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Silverton Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: University of Texas, Southwestern University, Texas State University, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Texas Advanced Computing Center


