Lead Quality Plant

Ensure the adherence of Supplier Quality and In-coming Quality

• Maintain Incoming parts quality, supplier monitoring and supplier audit

• Be Part of CFT to have concrete AOI development with CD team during development.

• Evaluate supplier product quality on regular basis and guide them to achieve consistency in quality.

• Participate in supplier CAT Meeting.

• Preparing and implementing supplier wise annual audit plan to improvement and evaluate the suppliers

• Analyzing the audit report and action plan from supplier for closing NCs

• Issue Supplier notification for quality issue, debit etc.

Adherence of quality systems at In-process Quality

• Conduct the Internal audit of product & Manufacturing Processes and taking necessary corrective & preventive actions to prevent occurrences.

• Review Layout testing and Functional testing for production process.

• Enforce First off, last off, In-process product audit, control charts are implemented.

• To ensure the Identification and traceability of parts during process and supplies to customer.

Maintain the QMS at Plant

• Provide the details of Customer QMS requirements to Employees

• Planning internal audit, coordinate to conduct management review meeting (MRM) & prepare minutes of meeting for necessary actions.

• Carryout IATF internal audit as per plan in coordination with BU QMS lead.

• Maintain QMS documents legibility & availability.

• Implement Inspection standard and work instructions related to all QA process

• Timely submission of revalidated reports and maintain layout inspection records etc.

• Preparing the plan for process, product and poka-yoke Audit and analyzing audit report.

• Preparing observation NCs report & tracking and verifying the actions against the NCs to ensure timely closure.

Achieve Zero defect out-flow to Customer

• Control of master sample & revalidation.

• Promote awareness of customer requirements throughout the organization.

• Participate in APQP process.

• Establish Quality control measures at the identified critical control parameters.

• Ensure enough lighting is there in applicable parts checking area.

• Control on outsourced processes.

• Provide and check use of required PPEs to Shift Inspectors.

• Set the competitive targets for Inspectors to improve Quality and productivity

Up-keeping available facility at Quality Lab

• Monitor the calibration of measuring instruments as per plan

• Controlling of measuring and testing equipment

• To follow on testing with outside lab & maintaining the QA lab.

NPD Quality

• Review control plans (Pre-launch and full production) and identify product design and process concerns during product planning stage.

• Cross verify the documents (Setup approval/first piece approval/in process inspection/ final inspection/ dock audit)

• Develop action plan to reduce vital RPNs through ME team (Above set baseline)

• Be active member in CFT for development of Process documents during the Product Planning process (Gate 0) and all steps of DFMEA

• Participate as CFT member to Calculate the SOD (Severity x Occurrence x Detection) number or risk priority number (RPN) as part of PFMEA

• Communicate the importance of the implementation of QMS procedures to NPD (Program Management) and ensure alignment to VQS

• Ensure the entire new product development process has quality assurance built in every step

Maintain the Customer Quality, Customer Complaint handling & IHR

• Attending customer complaint & analyzing defect/abnormality as per customer feedback & keeping documentation of corrective measures.

• Taking contentment action at customer end, warehouse & BSR. Doing root cause analysis & preparing action plan for taking corrective measures & horizontal deployments.

• Updating the corrective measures in FMEA

• Reporting to customer on process side & inspection side corrective action

• Improve PPM at customer ends.

• Participate in CAT meeting and reporting the action taken in timely manner to management and customers.

• Attending planed /surprise customer audit.

• Maintaining shop floor activities as per Customer Audit Check sheet in order to maintain customer audit score, product and process quality as per customers standard requirement (CSR).

• Preparing and implementing actions as per audit report observation and ensure timely NC closure.

• Maintaining warranty/EFR signoff documents and analyzing the same on timely intervention

• Maintaining Inspection agreement/ CSR and educating team on the same

• Monitoring inspection activity as per inspection agreement at final inspection along with Customer Specific Requirement.

Monitoring SPC (Statistical Process Control)

• Monitoring & Improving process capability for product characteristic by using SPC toll to reduce variations.

• Conducting SPC study of process, setting control limits & training operators to use the same

Employee Training & Development

• Conducting training as per the IATF & QMS requirement.

• Documenting employee skill & responsibility matrix and training employees for skill improvement.

• Awareness training to QA Engineers on SPC, MSA & PPAP.

Ensure Employee involvement through Kaizen competition by involvement of all QA employees.