Role: Engineer/Lead - Supplier Quality, Cells and Chemicals Commodity
Location: IBC, Bangalore
Reporting to: Group Lead SQA
Team name: Quality & Supplier Quality
About the Team and the Role
The Quality & Supplier Quality team at Ather is responsible for ensuring the highest levels of manufacturing quality and driving critical supplier performance metrics across vehicle components and systems. This role is for an Engineer/Lead, Supplier Quality (Cells and Chemicals Commodity) who will play a vital role in monitoring supplier quality, leading non-conformance improvement initiatives, executing quality planning frameworks, and ensuring overall component reliability for EV cells, chemicals, and paints.
Responsibilities
Monitor key supplier quality metrics including Defective Parts Per Million (PPM), Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), and Straight Pass Ratio (SPR) for cells, chemicals, and paint parts.
Drive supplier improvement plans to resolve non-conformities, reduce supplier internal rejections, and improve Straight Pass Ratio (SPR).




Log quality issues and deviations while leading containment actions, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).
Lead root cause analysis on field failures resulting from process issues, and approve RCA reports and CAPA implementations.
Drive Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for recent or modified parts.
Review engineering drawings, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T;) requirements, and supplier Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) to mitigate production risks.
Approve supplier measurement systems, CMM programs, and check fixtures to ensure full capability and calibration for critical-to-quality features.
Oversee scheduled preventive maintenance and restoration of complete supplier manufacturing and fabrication line setups.

Experience and Qualifications
B.E. or B.Tech degree with specializati

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