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Quality Engineer – Automobile ManufacturingCompany: Shree Balaji Industries (SBI)
Function: Quality
Industry: Automobile / Automotive Manufacturing
Position: Quality Engineer
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: Relevant experience in Automobile / Auto Components / Engineering Manufacturing
Location: Vallam Vadagal SIPCOT, Sriperumbudur
- Reports To: Quality Manager / Dy. Manager – Quality
About Shree Balaji Industries:
Shree Balaji Industries (SBI) is a manufacturing organization serving the engineering/automotive manufacturing sector, with a strong focus on quality, process discipline, customer requirements and continuous improvement.
As we strengthen our Quality function, we are looking for a Quality Engineer who can work closely with Production, Engineering, Suppliers and Customers to maintain product quality, resolve quality issues and continuously improve manufacturing processes.
This is a hands-on Quality role for a candidate who enjoys working on the shop floor, analysing problems, implementing corrective actions and ensuring that quality systems are effectively followed.
About the Role:
The Quality Engineer will be responsible for supporting and improving the organization's Quality Management System, product/process quality, customer quality, supplier quality and continuous improvement activities.
The successful candidate will be expected to combine technical quality knowledge with practical shop-floor problem solving.
Key Responsibilities:1. Quality Management System
- Implement and maintain relevant Quality Management System (QMS) procedures.
- Ensure compliance with applicable quality standards, customer requirements and internal procedures.
- Maintain and update quality documentation and records.
- Support internal, customer and external certification audits.
- Ensure corrective actions arising from audits are effectively implemented.
2. Customer Quality & Complaints
- Handle customer quality complaints and coordinate immediate containment.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and identify permanent corrective actions.
- Prepare and implement corrective/preventive action reports.
- Implement Poka-Yoke / error-proofing wherever required.
- Ensure effectiveness of corrective actions and prevent recurrence.
- Capture lessons learned and incorporate them into future processes/products.
3. Process & Product Quality
- Monitor product and process quality at various stages of manufacturing.
- Support Quality Engineers/Technicians in part inspection and quality sign-off.
- Establish and improve inspection standards, instructions and documentation.
- Conduct regular inspection reviews with Production and other functions.
- Analyse internal rejection, rework and other quality issues.
- Drive actions to improve overall build quality.
4. Supplier Quality
- Work with suppliers to reduce non-conforming incoming materials.
- Coordinate supplier quality issues and corrective actions.
- Support supplier audits and performance improvement.
- Work with Supplier Quality Assurance teams to minimise the impact of supplier defects on production.
5. Quality KPIs & Data Analysis
- Monitor and report Quality KPIs on a regular/monthly basis.
- Analyse quality data and identify trends, recurring problems and improvement opportunities.
- Support departmental objectives and KPI achievement.
- Prepare quality reports and management presentations.
- Identify actions required to achieve quality targets.
6. Continuous Improvement
- Identify recurring quality problems and improvement opportunities.
- Lead/participate in Kaizen and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Implement error-proofing and process improvements.
- Ensure lessons learned are effectively communicated and implemented.
- Work cross-functionally with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Purchase and other departments.
7. Team & Training
- Coordinate with Quality Engineers, Inspectors and Technicians.
- Support quality-related training and skill development.
- Review team performance against defined objectives/KPIs.
- Promote quality awareness and a culture of continuous improvement.
8. Safety, Risk & Compliance
- Follow applicable Health, Safety and Environmental requirements.
- Participate in process/task risk assessments.
- Ensure Quality activities are conducted in accordance with company procedures and applicable regulations.
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