Quality Engineer - Electroplating (POP)

ACT Plast Paints; Oragadam; On-site; INR 450,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

ACT Plast Paints in India seeks a Quality Engineer focused on electroplating and plastic components. You will monitor quality across the POP and plating process, establish standards, inspect defects, and drive root cause analyses.

Collaborate with Production, Process Engineering, Maintenance and R&D, support PPAP/APQP, audits, and continuous improvement to reduce scrap and customer complaints.

Qualifications

• Preferred candidate profile: Electroplating with Plastic Parts.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and control quality throughout the POP and electroplating process, from incoming plastic components through final inspection.
• Establish and maintain quality standards for plating processes, including surface preparation, activation, electroless plating, electroplating, rinsing, drying, and finishing.
• Inspect and analyze plating defects such as blisters, peeling, burning, pits, roughness, stains, discoloration, poor adhesion, thickness variation, skips, and contamination.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement corrective and preventive actions using tools such as 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and CAPA.
• Monitor critical process parameters and develop appropriate process control plans and inspection standards.
• Work closely with Production, Process Engineering, Maintenance, Tooling, and R&D teams to resolve quality issues.
• Support PPAP, APQP, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, and other core quality activities.
• Participate in customer complaint investigations and prepare effective containment and corrective-action reports.
• Conduct process audits, layered process audits, and product audits as required.
• Drive continuous improvement projects aimed at reducing scrap, rework, customer complaints, and process variation.
• Maintain quality records, inspection reports, test results, and process documentation.
• Ensure adherence to applicable environmental, safety, chemical-handling, and regulatory requirements associated with electroplating operations.

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Monitor and control quality throughout the POP and electroplating process, from incoming plastic components through final inspection.
• Establish and maintain quality standards for plating processes, including surface preparation, activation, electroless plating, electroplating, rinsing, drying, and finishing.
• Inspect and analyze plating defects such as blisters, peeling, burning, pits, roughness, stains, discoloration, poor adhesion, thickness variation, skips, and contamination.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement corrective and preventive actions using tools such as 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and CAPA.
• Monitor critical process parameters and develop appropriate process control plans and inspection standards.
• Work closely with Production, Process Engineering, Maintenance, Tooling, and R&D teams to resolve quality issues.
• Support PPAP, APQP, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, and other core quality activities.
• Participate in customer complaint investigations and prepare effective containment and corrective-action reports.
• Conduct process audits, layered process audits, and product audits as required.
• Drive continuous improvement projects aimed at reducing scrap, rework, customer complaints, and process variation.
• Maintain quality records, inspection reports, test results, and process documentation.
• Ensure adherence to applicable environmental, safety, chemical-handling, and regulatory requirements associated with electroplating operations.

Preferred candidate profile

Electroplating with Plastic Parts