Overview

Lead quality convergence activities during vehicle development and launch phases by coordinating cross-functional teams, monitoring quality readiness, tracking issue resolution, and ensuring robust quality performance against project milestones. Drive quality governance, risk identification, and continuous improvement to support successful product launches.

Responsibilities

- Coordinate quality convergence activities across vehicle development and production launch phases.

- Define and validate sampling plans in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders for prototype and production builds.

- Participate in production readiness meetings to ensure vehicle availability for quality evaluations and audits.

- Support evaluation and analysis of initial build vehicles, prototype parts, and quality validation activities.

- Review customer and internal quality feedback to identify trends, prioritize issues, and drive corrective actions.

- Coordinate quality issue review meetings and manage the tracking, prioritization, and closure of quality deviations.

- Prepare quality dashboards, management reports, and project status summaries highlighting key risks, KPIs, and action progress.

- Drive cross-functional teams to ensure timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions.

- Monitor quality convergence metrics and provide accurate quality forecasts for upcoming vehicle builds.

- Escalate critical quality risks and unresolved issues to project leadership as required.

- Collaborate with design, manufacturing, supplier quality, validation, and program management teams to achieve project quality objectives.





- Ensure compliance with organizational quality processes, standards, and project milestones.

- Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product quality and launch readiness.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering / Automobile Engineering / Production Engineering or related discipline

Essential skills

- Strong understanding of automotive product development and manufacturing processes.

- Knowledge of automotive quality management methodologies and problem-solving tools including:

- 5 Why Analysis

- 8D Problem Solving

- DFMEA

- QFD

- SPC

- Seven Basic Quality Tools

- Experience in vehicle quality audits, including:

- Appearance Quality

- Functional Evaluation

- Water Leak/Water Tightness Validation

- Ability to perform root cause analysis and drive cross-functional issue resolution.

- Experience in quality KPI tracking, reporting, and dashboard preparation.

- Strong analytical, data interpretation, and technical problem-solving skills.

- Understanding of prototype builds, launch quality, and production readiness activities

Desired skills

- Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.

- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

- Ability to work effectively in high-pressure project environments.

- Highly organized with solid attention to detail.

- Adaptable and proactive in managing changing priorities.

- Effective communication and presentation skills.

- Strong coordination and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

- Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.

Experience

9 - 12 years

📌 Convergence Lead – Quality - Pune (India)
🏢 Expleo
📍 India