(Candidates with Graduate Engineer - Metallurgy/Mechanical Can apply)

Principal Accountabilities*

1. Quality Control &
- Assurance

- Lead overall Quality Control activities for stainless steel pipe manufacturing, ensuring compliance with customer specifications, applicable standards, and internal quality requirements.

- Establish and maintain quality control systems, procedures, inspection plans, and quality checkpoints across the manufacturing process.

- Monitor product quality trends and drive corrective and preventive actions to reduce defects, rejections, and customer complaints.

- Ensure effective implementation of Quality Management System requirements and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Inspection &

- Testing

- Supervise incoming material, in-process, final inspection, and testing activities for stainless steel pipes.

- Ensure proper inspection of dimensional, surface, mechanical, chemical, metallurgical, and other product characteristics as applicable.

- Monitor NDT and inspection processes such as UT, Eddy Current, Hydro Testing, PMI, Visual Inspection, and other applicable methods.

- Ensure calibration, validation, and reliability of inspection and testing equipment.

- Review inspection reports, test certificates, and final quality documentation before product release.

- New Product Development

- Lead Quality Control activities for New Product Development of stainless steel pipes based on customer requirements and market needs.

- Develop quality and inspection criteria for recent grades, sizes, specifications, and applications.

- Coordinate with R&D;, Production, Process Engineering, and Marketing teams for trials, validation, qualification, and commercialization of new products.

- Analyze trial results and implement necessary process and quality improvements before mass production.

- Support customer approval, product qualification,



and technical documentation for new products.

- Process &

- Product Improvement

- Identify critical quality parameters and establish process controls to improve product consistency.

- Conduct root cause analysis for quality failures using appropriate problem-solving methodologies.

- Drive initiatives for reduction of rejection, rework, process variation, and customer complaints.

- Implement statistical and data-driven quality improvement practices.

- Customer &

- Technical Support

- Handle customer quality complaints, conduct root cause analysis, and ensure timely corrective actions.

- Support customer audits, product inspections, technical discussions, and qualification activities.

- Review customer specifications and translate requirements into appropriate inspection and testing standards.

- Team Leadership

- Lead and develop the Quality Control and Inspection team, ensuring competency and effective deployment of manpower.

- Define performance objectives and provide technical guidance and training to quality personnel.

- Promote a strong quality culture across manufacturing and support functions.

- Compliance &

- Documentation

- Ensure compliance with applicable standards such as ASTM, ASME, API, EN, ISO, and customer-specific requirements, as applicable.

- Maintain quality records, inspection reports, test certificates, and product traceability documentation.

- Participate in internal, external, customer, and certification audits and ensure closure of audit findings.

- Continuous Improvement

- Establish quality KPIs and monitor performance against defined targets.

- Drive continuous improvement projects focused on quality, productivity, cost reduction, and customer satisfaction.

- Benchmark inspection and quality practices and implement best-in-class methodologies within the stainless steel pipe manufacturing process.

📌 Sub Section Head - Quality Control - Pipe Plant - Jhagadia - Steel
🏢 Welspun World
📍 Jhagadia