Description
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement quality plans for shaped refractory products for raw materials, processing, firing, and finished goods.
- Oversee end-to-end refractory brick manufacturing: crushing, grinding, batching, mixing, shaping (pressing/extrusion), drying, firing, and finishing.
- Monitor incoming raw material quality and ensure conformance to chemical, physical, and mineralogical specifications
- Ensure traceability, documentation and compliance with ISO 9001, IMS, and customer-specific quality requirements.
- Define CTQs, control plans, inspection plans, SOPs, and testing protocols for shaped products.
- Drive standardization of quality practices across shifts and product lines.
- Conduct supplier audits and periodic performance reviews.
- Lead RM qualification, alternate source development, and cost-optimization initiatives without compromising quality.
- Ensure effective control of defects such as cracks, laminations, warpage, under/overfiring, dimensional deviations, and strength variation.




- Ensure testing of shaped refractories as per IS/ASTM/ISO standards: AP/BD, CCS, PLC, HMOR, refractoriness, RUL, thermal shock, creep, etc.
- Approve final product release and COA issuance.
- Control rejection rates and drive reduction through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Ensuring timely evaluation and qualification of current raw materials through lab trials and industrial validation.
- Supervising calibration, maintenance, and validation of laboratory equipment to ensure reliability of results.
- Conducting testing and analysis of R&D; samples, pilot batches, and customer trial samples.
- Reduction in quality complaints of products through root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
- Handle customer complaints related to shaped products and lead failure analysis (RCA, CAPA).
- Customization of products / cost savings exercises for products
- Coordinating with cross-functional teams (production, procurement, R&D;, Sales,

📌 QPC Head, BRW (Bhuinpur)
🏢 Calderys Group
📍 Bhuinpur