Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

- Drive supplier quality improvement initiatives for sheet metal parts including stampings, weldments, assemblies, and bracketry components.

- Ensure compliance with defined quality standards, inspection criteria, and customer requirements.

- Support supplier capability enhancement in sheet metal manufacturing processes, welding, surface treatment, and related special processes.

- Participate in supplier assessments and development programs to improve quality, delivery, and process capability.

- Monitor supplier quality KPIs such as Supplier PPM, rejection trends, warranty issues, defect phenomena, and production loss incidents.

- Lead supplier concern resolution through structured problem-solving methodologies (8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, etc.).

- Ensure timely implementation and verification of corrective and preventive actions.

- Support periodic supplier performance reviews and follow-up on improvement actions.

- Escalate recurring quality concerns and drive sustainable countermeasures with suppliers.

- Drive APQP activities for current component development in coordination with sourcing, supplier, design, and manufacturing teams.

- Review and approve PPAP documentation to ensure readiness for production.





- Monitor supplier readiness against project timelines and milestone requirements.

- Evaluate and control supplier process, tooling, and material changes through established change management processes.

- Maintain supplier quality reports, action trackers, and performance dashboards.

- Support digitalization initiatives related to supplier quality monitoring and concern tracking.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on defect reduction, process capability improvement, and supplier performance enhancement.

Preferred Industries

Automobile

Education Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering; Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical; Bachelor of Engineering in Automobile

General Experience

8-12 Years of experience in Supplier Quality, Supplier Development, or Manufacturing Quality, with significant exposure to Sheet Metal commodities.

Critical Experience

System Generated Core Skills

7 QC ToolsAdvanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)AnalyticsAuditingFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)MetallurgyProduction Part Approval Process (PPAP)

System Generated Secondary Skills

Communication SkillsTeamwork

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