Role & responsibilities Quality Management System (QMS)
- Establish, implement, and maintain the Quality Management System in accordance with AS9100 and applicable customer requirements.
- Develop and maintain quality procedures, inspection plans, work instructions, quality records, and process-control documentation.
- Ensure effective implementation of document control, configuration management, product traceability, and change management.
- Plan and conduct internal audits, process audits, product audits, and supplier audits.
- Coordinate external certification audits and customer quality audits, ensuring timely closure of findings. Aerostructure Assembly Quality
- Lead quality assurance and inspection activities for aircraft structural assembly, including subassemblies, major assemblies, and final assemblies.
- Ensure compliance with approved engineering drawings, specifications, process sheets, and customer-approved manufacturing procedures.
- Oversee inspection of drilling, reaming, countersinking, riveting, fastening, shimming, sealing, and dimensional alignment processes, as applicable.
- Ensure appropriate inspection stages, acceptance criteria, and quality checkpoints are established throughout the assembly process.
- Monitor product conformity, workmanship standards, dimensional accuracy, and assembly integrity.
- Ensure proper control and calibration of inspection instruments, gauges, and measurement equipment. First Article Inspection (FAI) and Industrialization
- Lead FAI planning, preparation, execution, documentation, and customer coordination in accordance with AS9102 or applicable customer requirements.
- Ensure availability and completeness of technical drawings, material certificates, process records, inspection reports, and objective evidence required for FAI.
- Coordinate with Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Tooling, and Program Management teams to ensure FAI readiness.
- Establish inspection plans and quality checkpoints during process development and production industrialization.
- Lead closure of FAI observations, non-conformances, and customer findings before production approval.




- Ensure effective transition from initial qualification to secure serial production. Customer Quality and Interface Management
- Act as the primary quality interface with aerospace customers and customer quality representatives.
- Coordinate customer inspections, source inspections, product acceptance activities, and quality reviews.
- Manage customer complaints, quality alerts, rejections, and corrective-action requests.
- Ensure timely communication and resolution of quality issues affecting product acceptance and delivery.
- Maintain customer confidence through effective quality performance, transparency, and timely closure of concerns. Non-Conformance and Corrective Action Management
- Establish and maintain systems for identification, segregation, documentation, and disposition of non-conforming products.
- Lead root-cause analysis using appropriate problem-solving methodologies such as 5 Why and Fishbone Analysis.
- Drive corrective and preventive actions to eliminate recurring defects and improve process capability.
- Monitor rejection rates, rework, scrap, customer escapes, and repeat non-conformances.
- Ensure proper control of concessions, deviations, rework, and repair activities in accordance with authorized customer requirements. Process Control and Continuous Improvement
- Establish process audits and inspection controls across all stages of aerostructure assembly.
- Ensure compliance with approved processes, operator qualifications, special-process requirements, and tooling controls.
- Implement risk-based quality planning, process FMEA, and control plans, as applicable.
- Drive improvements in first-pass yield, defect prevention, and right-first-time manufacturing.
- Promote quality awareness, FOD prevention, tool control,



and adherence to approved procedures across the shop floor. Supplier and Incoming Quality
- Coordinate supplier quality assurance and incoming inspection for raw materials, aerospace hardware, bought-out items, and outsourced processes.
- Verify material certifications, batch traceability, inspection reports, and supplier documentation.
- Conduct supplier audits and monitor supplier quality performance where required.
- Ensure appropriate controls for special processes such as heat treatment, surface treatment, chemical processing, and non-destructive testing when applicable.
- Coordinate supplier corrective actions for material and process-related quality issues. Team Leadership and Competency Development
- Develop the Quality organization structure, manpower plan, and competency requirements.
- Lead recruitment, training, qualification, and authorization of quality engineers, inspectors, and technicians.
- Establish inspection competency matrices and ensure personnel are qualified for assigned inspection activities.
- Define individual responsibilities, performance objectives, and departmental KPIs.
- Build a quality-focused culture across Manufacturing, Engineering, Tooling, and Supply Chain functions. Quality Performance and Reporting
- Establish quality dashboards and periodic management reviews.
- Monitor key indicators, including first-pass yield, rejection rate, rework hours, customer complaints, audit findings, and corrective-action closure.
- Prepare quality reports for management and customer reviews.
- Identify quality risks affecting program milestones, FAI, product acceptance, and delivery commitments.
- Ensure quality issues are escalated promptly, and corrective actions are implemented effectively. Preferred candidate profile
- Essential: B.
E. / B.
Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Production Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Additional qualifications in Quality Management, Quality Engineering, or aerospace quality systems are desirable.

📌 Quality Head (Hyderabad)
🏢 Alpha Design Technologies
📍 Hyderabad