Role & responsibilities :

Quality Control & Process Monitoring

- Monitor in-process quality activities across manufacturing lines.
- Conduct stage-wise inspections and process audits.
- Ensure adherence to Control Plans, SOPs, Work Instructions, and Quality Standards.
- Verify critical process parameters and product characteristics.
- Perform first-off, patrol, and final process inspections.
- Ensure traceability requirements are maintained.

Defect Prevention & Problem Solving

- Identify quality issues during production and initiate containment actions.
- Analyze defects using quality tools such as:
- 8D
- 5 Why

- Fishbone Diagram

- Pareto Analysis

- PDCA
- Coordinate corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
- Work with Production, Maintenance, and Engineering teams to eliminate recurring defects.

Process Quality Management

- Ensure compliance with PFMEA and Control Plan requirements.
- Monitor process capability studies (Cp, Cpk).
- Validate process changes through trial monitoring and approvals.
- Ensure mistake-proofing (Poka-Yoke) systems are functioning effectively.
- Monitor rejection, rework, and scrap trends.

Inspection & Measurement

- Conduct dimensional and visual inspections.




- Use quality measuring instruments such as:

- Vernier Caliper

- Micrometer

- Height Gauge

- Bore Gauge

- Dial Indicator

- Profile Projector

- CMM (preferred)
- Verify calibration status of gauges and measuring equipment.

Customer & Supplier Quality Support

- Support customer audits and quality visits.
- Participate in customer complaint investigations.
- Implement process corrections based on customer feedback.
- Coordinate with supplier quality teams for incoming quality issues impacting production.

Documentation & Reporting

- Maintain inspection reports, rejection analysis, CAPA records, and quality dashboards.
- Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly quality performance reports.
- Monitor key quality KPIs and present findings to management.
- Ensure compliance with IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 documentation requirements.

Continuous Improvement

- Lead quality improvement projects focused on:

- Reduction of PPM
- Reduction of in-house rejection

- First Pass Yield improvement
- Cost of Poor Quality reduction
- Support Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, and Six Sigma initiatives.

📌 In Process Quality (Pune)
🏢 Tata AutoComp
📍 Pune