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Product Support Engineer is the primary quality liaison group between the VW Factories and Volkswagen of America. The primary role of the Product Support Engineer position is to monitor and report vehicle quality concerns to the Factories/Dealers using Warranty data, JD Power results, and information from the Technician Helpline/Field Quality colleagues. Once reported, it is the engineer's responsibility to track topics to final resolution. Additional responsibilities include writing technical bulletins and tracking/managing failed parts from the Field.
Job Responsibility
Monitors Field warranty data, filters, organizes, prioritizes, and selects technical topics for follow-up
Reviews top warranty, long term quality, early warning and tow-in concerns to identify problems and investigate customer complaints, workshop findings, repairs performed and research all other potential possibilities surrounding issues
Reports market/product concerns in technical detail with pre-analysis in the FAP process
Monitors the effectiveness of service solutions and Factory corrective actions introduced into production and service repairs
Attends Factory meetings and topic escalation meetings
Conducts follow-up on claimed parts analysis results so FAP documents are updated appropriately
Updates problem tracking lists timely and accurately
Develops technical and non-technical approaches to address Dealer issues
Performs preliminary analysis on warranty returned parts with the Quality Analysis team
ships sample parts to the appropriate Factories and/or suppliers
Ensures claimed parts pertaining to responsible PIDs (Part IDs) are available
Maintains and updates part submission lists on a regular basis
Checks and inspects incoming parts from Field claims
Scraps parts and deletes from submission list when necessary
Provides technical support to other VWoA departments like technical Field personnel, Technician Helpline, Parts department, Customer Service, and Compliance/TREAD
Provides diagnosis and service solution information to the Technician Helpline and drafts Technical Bulletins for the Field organization
Resolves unscheduled and unplanned technical issues
Requirements
5 -7 years technical automotive experience
Bachelor of Science in Automotive Technology, Management, or equivalent experience
Communication skills
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Conceptual thinking skills
Integration - joining people, processes or systems
Influencing and negotiation skills
Resource management
Computer savvy
strong Microsoft Office skills
Understanding of automotive systems/concepts/components
Strong written and oral communication skills
Ability to understand and communicate trends in large amounts of data
Nice to have
Master's Degree in Business Administration or related discipline