Head 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 NC’s § 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 NC’s 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.