Location:

Leanwatts Product HQ, Hyderabad, India

About Us:

At Leanwatts, we are focused on developing innovative power electronic solutions for electric vehicles (EVs) and Battery storage systems through continuous research and development. Our commitment to excellence and a “Designed and Made in India” ethos drives us to create and deliver sustainable products for the future of transportation.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Quality Lead to lead Leanwatts' Customer Quality, Field Quality and Warranty processes

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The role will establish, implement and maintain quality systems capable of meeting IATF 16949 expectations, while ensuring consistent product quality and customer satisfaction across:

- 2W / 3W EV chargers and onboard charging products
- DC fast-charging power modules and converters
- Hybrid inverters, PCS and energy products
- Future Leanwatts integrated power-electronics platforms

You will own the quality system from incoming/internal process controls through final inspection, customer documentation, audits, complaint closure and continuous improvement. Supplier and sub-supplier audits are outside the scope of this role for now.

What will You do:

- Own internal line quality across assembly, testing, rework and final inspection, including line controls, quality gates and escalation mechanisms.
- Establish and maintain Leanwatts' Quality Management System and processes required to progressively meet IATF 16949 requirements.
- Define and maintain process quality documentation including PFMEA, control plans, work instructions, inspection standards, check sheets and traceability requirements.




- Drive layered process audits, internal quality audits, process compliance reviews and closure of internal non-conformities and CAPA.
- Work closely with R&D;, Manufacturing, Service and Supply Chain to eliminate recurring defects and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Own customer quality expectations, customer complaints, escalation discipline, 8D/CAPA responses and communication with customer engineering and quality teams.
- Manage customer audits and quality reviews, including audit preparation, evidence, corrective actions and closure of observations.
- Own PPAP/APQP and customer-specific quality documentation, submissions, change-control records and production-part approval readiness.
- Track internal and customer quality metrics including first-pass yield, rejection/rework, PPM, customer complaints, warranty/returns, repeat defects and CAPA ageing.
- Lead quality readiness for new product introduction, pilot builds and production ramp-up, ensuring controls are established before release.
- Build a disciplined quality culture through daily/weekly reviews, defect containment, root-cause problem solving, lessons learned and sustained corrective-action verification.

What we are looking for:





- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Automotive, Mechatronics, Quality Engineering or a related field.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in manufacturing quality, process quality, customer quality or plant quality roles in automotive/electronics manufacturing.
- Strong hands-on experience managing shop-floor/line quality teams, non-conformance control, CAPA and production quality systems.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and maintaining an automotive-style QMS, preferably in an IATF 16949 environment or IATF readiness program.
- Solid working knowledge of IATF 16949, ISO 9001, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA, 8D, 5-Why, CAPA and internal/process audits.
- Strong customer-facing communication and documentation skills, including handling customer audits, PPAP submissions, quality escalations and closure commitments.
- Ability to interpret drawings, test data, process/test logs and failure evidence and work effectively with engineering and manufacturing teams.
- Experience in EV, automotive electronics, power electronics, chargers, inverters, BESS or other high-volume electronic manufacturing is preferred.

What Success look like: You build and sustain a quality system that repeatedly delivers:

Process Control → Defect Prevention → Audit Readiness → Customer Approval → Corrective Action → Sustained Improvement with stable line quality, IATF-ready systems, strong customer audit/PPAP performance, lower defects and repeat failures, and consistently reliable production output.

📌 Quality Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Leanwatts
📍 Hyderabad