About The Role We are looking for an experienced Plant Quality Incharge to lead quality management, process improvement, and compliance activities at our Hyderabad uPVC Plant. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining product quality, reducing defects, ensuring customer satisfaction, and driving continuous improvement across manufacturing operations.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Management & Process Improvement
- Develop and implement quality assurance strategies aligned with business objectives and industry standards.
- Conduct regular process audits to ensure compliance with quality standards.
- Identify defects, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance production quality and operational efficiency.
- Monitor and reduce defects, rework, and cost of non-conformance.
Supplier Quality Management
- Establish and maintain supplier quality management processes.
- Coordinate with procurement teams to ensure the quality of incoming materials.
- Communicate quality expectations to vendors and suppliers.
- Monitor supplier quality performance and support improvement initiatives.
Team Leadership & Training
- Lead and develop the plant quality team.
- Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and quality awareness.
- Conduct training programs to improve employee knowledge of quality control processes.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, production, logistics,
planning, and procurement teams.
Customer & Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure products meet customer expectations and applicable quality standards.
- Address customer feedback and quality-related concerns.
- Coordinate with certification bodies and regulatory authorities during audits.
- Maintain compliance with relevant industry regulations and certification requirements.
- Provide regular quality performance updates to leadership.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Experience in quality management within the manufacturing industry, preferably uPVC and aluminium doors and windows.
- Strong knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS).
- Understanding of Statistical Process Control (SPC) methodologies.
- Hands-on experience in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and CAPA.
- Experience in internal and external quality audits.
- Knowledge of supplier quality management and process improvement.
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of relevant manufacturing quality standards and regulatory requirements.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Reduction in product defect rate and rework.
- Customer satisfaction related to product quality.
- Internal and external audit compliance.
- Supplier quality performance.
- Reduction in cost of quality and non-conformance.
- Timely completion of root cause analysis.
- Process audit performance.
- Employee training effectiveness.
- Implementation of continuous improvement initiatives.