Job Purpose
Lead end-to-end quality operations for Smart Electricity Meter manufacturing, ensuring compliance with product, process, regulatory, customer, and quality standards. Drive defect prevention, process control, reliability improvement, audit compliance, and customer satisfaction across manufacturing, supplier, and field quality functions.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Leadership & Strategy
Lead plant-wide quality functions: IQC, PQC, FQC, OQC, Supplier Quality, Customer Quality, Reliability, Calibration, and QMS.
Define quality strategy, KPIs, quality roadmap, and improvement targets aligned with business goals.
Drive cross-functional quality initiatives with Production, Engineering, R&D;, SCM, Testing, and Service teams.
Ensure readiness for NPI, process changes, customer audits, and regulatory inspections.
Promote a defect prevention and continuous improvement culture.
Product Quality Management
Ensure end-to-end quality compliance from incoming material to final dispatch.
Monitor assembly, soldering, calibration, testing, firmware programming, sealing,



and packaging quality.
Validate metrology accuracy, communication reliability, tamper detection, firmware performance, and safety compliance.
Approve quality plans, control plans, inspection standards, sampling plans, and test procedures.
Reduce defects related to PCB assembly, soldering, relay failures, display issues, communication failures, and field returns.
Maintain product traceability through serial tracking, calibration records, ERP/MES/QMS systems.
Process Quality & Manufacturing Control
Implement SPC, FMEA, MSA, CAPA, 8D, RCA, Six Sigma, Pareto, 5 Why, and Poka-Yoke methodologies.
Establish quality gates for PCB assembly, soldering, calibration, burn-in, functional testing, and final inspection.
Improve FPY, process capability, yield, and reduce scrap, rework, and recurring defects.
Ensure control of non-conforming materials through segregation, analysis, and corrective action closure.
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