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Customer Engineering Escalation

Advantest, San Jose, CA


Job Description

The Customer Engineer Escalation position plays a critical role as a member of assigned Global Account Support Teams for AAI-based accounts. The person taking on this role will be expected to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the Advantest FS organization, business objectives, delivery processes, and support product offerings.

This position will be expected to work collaboratively with other members of the Field Service management team, Sales, Applications, factory teams, etc. and will represent AAI FS as the accountable focal point for the execution of FS responsibilities in assigned AAI accounts.

As a Customer Engineer Escalation, you will be responsible for coordinating the account support activity in their assigned AAI-based accounts. Some key elements of this objective will be the following: close collaboration with sales, AE, and factory to ensure alignment and "Customer Team" approach to managing their assigned accounts. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving the overall customer satisfaction (CX) of the assigned account.

As a member of the global support team, you will be a key contributor to the account playbook to ensure good understanding of customer needs, coordination of support activities, and communication of site activities and status. - Regular reviews with key customer contacts to understand needs and establish trust.

Direct ownership and escalation point for all field service-related matters, ensuring timely engagement of appropriate resources and clear communications with customer and account team throughout the process of resolution and take full ownership and accountability in assigned accounts for FS support of NPI, product engineering, production ramp, and production sustaining activities in upstream and downstream environments.

The business objective of this position is to improve management and execution of customer support for assigned accounts through:
• Enhanced and consistent customer engagement, including regular customer review meetings.
• Improved alignment and collaboration with the entire customer team, including FS, Sales, SADM, Operations, R D, etc.
• Transparent and consistent support delivery according to Account Playbooks and Account Management Plans
• Established and accurate reporting and KPIs

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or experience in a related field required.

Experience in project management.

Fluent in English.

Practical experience - supporting ATE equipment, Advantest 93K experience an advantage.

Travel will be required up to 20%
State of California Development (EDD):

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-41/subtitle-B/chapter-60/part-60-300#p-60-300.5(a)

- § 60-300.5(a)(2)(3)(4) Equal opportunity clause. Details the job posting requirements.

- § 60-300.5(a)(6) Equal opportunity clause. All employment openings includes all positions except executive and senior management, those positions that will be filled from within the contractor's organization, and positions lasting three days or less. This term includes full-time employment, temporary employment of more than three days' duration, and part-time employment.

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