Position: Head Quality
Industry: Aerospace / Engineering / Precision Components
Experience: 18+ Years
Department: Quality Assurance & Quality Control
Location: Peenya, Bengaluru
Working: 6days a week
No transport or canteen is provided
Reporting To: CEO
Educational Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering / Production Engineering / Metallurgy / Industrial Engineering / Quality Engineering or equivalent.
- Master's degree in Engineering / Quality / Operations Management would be an advantage.
- AS9100 / ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification preferred.
- Six Sigma Black Belt / Green Belt or equivalent quality qualification preferred.
Candidate Profile
- 20+ years of overall experience, with significant experience in Quality leadership.
- Ideally 8 -10+ years in a senior Quality Management / Quality Head / Plant Quality leadership role.
- Strong exposure to Aerospace, Precision Components, CNC Machining or highly engineered products.
- Experience managing large Quality teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of engineering drawings, GD&T, machining processes and inspection methodologies.
- Proven track record of reducing rejection, improving customer quality ratings and strengthening QMS.
- Experience in dealing directly with OEMs, Tier-1 customers and international customers will be preferred.
- Strong leadership, analytical, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to independently lead customer escalations and certification/customer audits.
Position Overview
The incumbent will provide strategic and operational leadership for the organization's complete Quality function, ensuring compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001 and applicable customer/regulatory requirements, while driving quality improvement, customer satisfaction, process capability and manufacturing excellence.
The role requires strong experience managing precision engineering and manufacturing quality, customer and certification audits, supplier quality, NPD quality, metrology, non-conformance management and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- 1. Quality Leadership & Strategy
- 2. QMS & Aerospace Quality Systems
- 3. Customer Quality
- 4. Manufacturing & Process Quality
- 5. Precision Inspection & Metrology
- 6. New Product Development / NPI Quality
- 7. Supplier Quality Management
- 8. Quality Improvement & Operational Excellence
- 9. Compliance, Audits & Documentation
- 10. Team Leadership
The Quality Head will be responsible for monitoring and improving:
- Customer PPM / Customer Rejection
- Internal Rejection & Rework %
- Supplier PPM
- Customer Complaints
- 8D / CAPA Closure
- First Pass Yield / Right First Time
- Scrap & Cost of Poor Quality
- Cp / Cpk / Process Capability
- Audit Findings & Closure
- On-Time Calibration
- Supplier Quality Performance
- Customer Quality Rating
- Quality Cost as % of Sales
Expertise:
- Aerospace & Defence Components
- Precision Engineering
- CNC Machining
- High-precision Components
- Aircraft / Aerospace Components
- Automotive / Auto Components
- Industrial Engineering
- Heavy Engineering
- Defence Manufacturing
- Special Processes / Surface Treatment
- Precision Assemblies
- Essential Technical Expertise
- AS9100 / ISO 9001
- Quality Management Systems
- Customer Quality Management
- Supplier Quality Management
- 8D / CAPA / RCA
- FMEA
- SPC / MSA
- Cp / Cpk
- PPAP / APQP or equivalent product realization methodologies
- NPD / NPI
- First Article Inspection / First-Off Inspection
- GD&T
- Precision Inspection & Metrology
- CMM / VMM
- Calibration Management
- Internal & External Audits
- Lean / Six Sigma / Kaizen
- Quality Data Analytics
- Process Improvement
Sowmya
Samvith Technologies
9844188855