Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

Ensuring supplier-produced parts meet quality, cost, delivery, and launch readiness requirements throughout the product lifecycle—from development to SOP and mass production.
- Ensure on time completion TSO (Technical Signoff), Design reviews, Tooling readiness and validation, Trial builds, pilot runs, and run at rate
- Evaluate supplier manufacturing processes for capability, robustness, and compliance
- Assess process capability (Cp/Cpk, Ppk) for critical and special characteristics
- Drive process improvements and error proofing (Poka Yoke)
- Ensure PPAP submission accuracy, completeness, and approval
- Coordinate sample builds, validation, and engineering sign-off
- Monitor and improve supplier KPIs - Quality (PPM, FTQ), Delivery, Responsiveness
- Identify chronic issues and lead structured improvement plans
- Problem Solving & Risk Mitigation - 8D / 5 Why / Ishikawa problem solving, rive root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions
- Manage supplier engineering or process changes via - Change requests (PCR / ECR / ECN/IMCR)




- Cross Functional Coordination with internal CFT
- Support cost reduction, localization, and VA/VE initiatives

Experience
- 6-10 Years

Industry Preferred
- Automotive Industry

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Qualifications
- B.Tech / BE (Mechanical / Industrial / Automotive / Production)

General Requirements
- Cross Functional Coordination with internal CFT
- Support cost reduction, localization, and VA/VE initiatives
- Understanding of manufacturing processes (injection molding, stamping, casting, extrusion, assembly, surface treatment, etc.)
- Knowledge of tooling, fixtures, gauges, and automation basics
- Ability to evaluate process robustness and capacity. Conducting and interpreting: Supplier process audits, Layered Process Audits (LPA), Readiness and risk audits
- Solid working knowledge of Quality Systems & Standards, IATF 16949, ISO 9001, OEM specific customer requirements (CSR)
- Hands on experience with APQP p

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