Key Responsibilities

- Lead overall Quality Assurance and Quality Control activities across manufacturing and project operations.
- Develop and implement quality strategies aligned with business, customer, and regulatory requirements.
- Drive Supplier Quality Management, including supplier qualification, audits, performance monitoring, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.
- Lead end-to-end APQP and PPAP activities for new product development, recent supplier introduction, and engineering changes.
- Implement and monitor PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, 8D, RCA, CAPA, and other core quality tools.
- Drive improvement in key quality metrics including PPM, FPY, COPQ, NCRs, rejection, rework, and supplier OTD.
- Lead root cause analysis using 5-Why, 6M, Pareto, 8D and RCCA methodologies and ensure effective corrective/preventive actions.
- Drive Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Poka-Yoke, Standard Work and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with ISO 9001 / IATF 16949 and applicable customer-specific quality requirements.
- Lead internal, customer, process, and supplier audits and ensure timely closure of audit findings.




- Oversee quality inspection activities covering incoming, in-process, final inspection, welding, NDT, dimensional and functional inspections.
- Establish and review ITPs, QAPs, quality manuals, SOPs, method statements and inspection documentation.
- Provide technical leadership on welding quality, including WPS/PQR/WPQ, weld defect reduction and NDT coordination.
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards such as ASME, AWS, ISO 3834, ISO 15614 and ISO 9606.
- Work closely with Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, Procurement and Customer teams to resolve quality issues and improve product/process performance.
- Lead quality readiness for new product launches and engineering changes, ensuring smooth and defect-free transition to production.
- Develop and mentor quality engineers, inspectors, supplier quality teams and other quality professionals.
- Prepare and present quality performance dashboards, risks, improvement plans and key KPIs to senior management.

📌 Senior Manager – Quality (India)
🏢 Saaki Argus And Averil Consulting
📍 India