Position: Plant Quality Manager Job Summary: The Plant Quality Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and driving the overall quality strategy for the manufacturing plant. The role ensures that products consistently meet customer requirements through robust supplier quality management, process quality control, current product introduction (NPI), product quality assurance, and customer quality management. The incumbent will lead the Quality function by establishing a culture of quality excellence, driving continuous improvement, reducing the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), and ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, and international quality standards. Key Responsibilities: Supplier Quality Management Develop and implement supplier quality strategies to ensure incoming materials and components consistently meet quality requirements. Establish supplier qualification, approval, and periodic evaluation processes. Lead supplier audits and supplier development initiatives. Monitor supplier quality performance using KPIs such as PPM, on-time corrective actions,



and rejection rates. Drive Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR) and verify implementation effectiveness. Collaborate with Procurement and Engineering for supplier selection, qualification, and continuous improvement. Reduce supplier-related quality issues through preventive quality planning and supplier capability enhancement. Process Quality Establish robust process quality controls throughout manufacturing operations. Develop Control Plans, Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEA, inspection standards, and process validation requirements. Ensure Statistical Process Control (SPC) and process capability (Cp/Cpk) are effectively implemented. Lead root cause analysis using structured methodologies such as 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone Diagram, Pareto Analysis, and DOE where applicable. Monitor and improve First Pass Yield (FPY), process capability, defect rates, scrap, and rework. Ensure calibration systems and measure

📌 Plant Quality Manager (Karnataka)
🏢 Cyient
📍 Karnataka