Senior Engineer - Paint Shop Quality (Customer Support)

ACT Plast Paints; Anantapuram; On-site; INR 450,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

ACT Plast Paints in India seeks a Paint Shop Quality Engineer to monitor and bolster quality across the paint-shop process, from incoming parts to final inspection and dispatch.

You will establish standards, manage CAPA using 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and SPC, lead audits, support new program launches, and ensure calibration of measurement equipment, color matching, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Monitor and control quality performance of painted components throughout the paint-shop process.
• Establish and maintain quality standards, specifications, inspection criteria, and control plans.
• Ensure compliance with customer-specific requirements, internal quality standards, drawings, and automotive quality systems.
• Lead root-cause analysis and CAPA using 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, Pareto, and SPC.
• Drive reduction of paint-shop rejection, rework, scrap, and customer complaints.
• Develop and implement PFMEA, Control Plan, Process Flow, inspection standards, and reaction plans.
• Conduct process audits, LPA, product audits, and quality system audits to ensure adherence to standards.
• Support new product development and paint-program launches, including PPAP/APQP and customer approvals.
• Ensure proper calibration and control of inspection/measurement equipment including paint-thickness gauges, gloss meters, color measurement, ovens, and monitoring systems.
• Establish and maintain color matching and appearance standards with master samples and customer references.
• Analyze quality data and prepare daily/weekly/monthly quality reports and KPIs.
• Train and coach inspectors, operators, and junior engineers on defects, methods, standards, and controls.
• Participate in customer and third-party audits and close findings timely.
• Maintain quality documentation and revision of SOPs, work instructions, and check sheets.
• Ensure corrective actions are horizontally deployed across products/processes.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and control quality performance through all paint-shop stages.
• Lead root-cause analysis and CAPA using standard quality tools.
• Drive reduction of rework, scrap, and customer complaints.
• Conduct process, product, and quality-system audits to ensure compliance.
• Support new paint-program launches and PPAP/APQP activities.
• Calibrate inspection equipment and ensure color matching accuracy.
• Prepare regular quality reports and track KPIs like FPY, COPQ.
• Train inspectors and operators on quality methods and controls.

Skills

Quality management

Root cause analysis

CAPA

8D problem solving

SPC

FMEA

PFMEA

Control Plan

Process mapping

Tools

PFMEA

Control Plan

Process mapping

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Monitor and control quality performance of plastic painted components throughout the paint-shop process, from incoming parts/materials through final inspection and dispatch.
• Establish and maintain quality standards, specifications, inspection criteria, and control plans for plastic painting processes.
• Ensure compliance with customer-specific requirements, internal quality standards, drawings, and applicable automotive quality systems.
• Monitor critical paint-shop parameters such as:
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA) for internal, customer, and process-related quality issues using tools such as 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, Pareto, and SPC.
• Drive reduction of paint-shop rejection, rework, scrap, and customer complaints through systematic quality-improvement initiatives.
• Develop and implement PFMEA, Control Plan, Process Flow, inspection standards, and reaction plans for new and existing products/processes.
• Conduct process audits, layered process audits (LPA), product audits, and quality system audits to ensure adherence to defined standards.
• Support new product development and new paint-program launches, including trials, process validation, first-off approval, PPAP/APQP activities, and customer approval.
• Ensure proper calibration and control of inspection and measurement equipment, including paint-thickness gauges, gloss meters, color measurement equipment, ovens/temperature monitoring systems, and other quality instruments.
• Establish and maintain color matching and appearance standards, including master samples, approved panels, and customer reference standards.
• Analyze quality data and prepare daily/weekly/monthly quality reports, rejection trends, Pareto charts, FPY, PPM, COPQ, and other KPIs.
• Train and coach quality inspectors, operators, and junior engineers on paint defects, inspection methods, quality standards, and process controls.
• Participate in customer and third-party audits and ensure timely closure of audit findings and observations.
• Maintain quality documentation and ensure timely revision and implementation of SOPs, work instructions, inspection standards, check sheets, and quality alerts.
• Ensure that all corrective actions are horizontally deployed across relevant products/processes to prevent recurrence.
• Support management in achieving zero-defect, customer satisfaction, cost-reduction, and continuous-improvement targets.

Preferred candidate profile

Paint shop Quality