Supplier Quality Engineer

Regal Rexnord Corporation; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Regal Rexnord is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to work onsite in Mumbai, bridging Portescap with suppliers. You will drive PPAP, supplier audits, and process improvements to ensure right-first-time parts and robust quality performance.

Role requires a Diploma or BE with 7+ years in machining, stamping, plastics, or electronics, and experience with RoHS/REACH and quality systems. Strong communication in English is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong know-how of Machining, Stampings, Plastics and Electronics parts.
• Hands-on experience in PPAP and Quality tools.
• Process development at supplier and QA exposure.
• RoHS, REACH and Conflict Minerals compliance knowledge.
• Exposure to Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Engineering drawings and quality systems familiarity (DIN, ISO, TS16949, OSHAS).
• ERP knowledge (Oracle / SAP).

Responsibilities

• Review and assess supplier processes.
• Identify quality issues and drive corrective actions.
• Visit suppliers for audits and monitor performance.
• Coordinate deviation requests and track material under deviation.
• Lead supplier 8D closures and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain supplier records and scorecards.
• Support process improvement at suppliers and cross-functional teams.
• Ensure compliance with RoHS, REACH and Conflict Minerals.
• Lead quality audits and PPAP reviews.

Skills

Machining knowledge

PPAP

Lean manufacturing

MS Office

Engineering drawings

Education

Diploma / BE with experience

Tools

ERP (Oracle / SAP)

Job description

Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.

Job Title:

Supplier Quality Engineer

Location:

Mumbai, India

SUMMARY

This position will be responsible for Parts Quality and Supplier Process Development, to ensure RFT and long‑term process capability of outsourced parts. This position needs to work as a bridge between Portescap and suppliers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Review and assess supplier processes
• Identify quality issues
• Maintain documentation and reports
• Provide technical guidance and assistance
• Communicate with suppliers and senior management
• Ensure that products / processes supplied are managed in accordance with all specified product quality requirements and ensuring that timely and accurate information is made available to all affected parties
• Visit suppliers on a proactive & regular basis to report performance and review systems and perform on-site supplier process audits for all high impact suppliers
• Coordinate for deviation requests and ensure proper approvals and tracking of material under deviation
• Manage supplier corrective actions and timely 8D closures, ensuring a thorough root cause analysis is performed, to eliminate possible recurrence of defects
• Maintain supplier records in accordance with documented requirements & track supplier performance in accordance with defined guidelines
• Co-ordinate with suppliers to identify Root causes by 5 Why analysis & Counter measures, also understand Supplier yield progress
• Establish optimum supplier’s product / process efficiency and quality
• Manage supplier corrective actions and ensuring thorough root cause analysis is being performed to eliminate possible reoccurrence (Verification at the supplier sites should be considered for significant concerns)
• Conduct detailed supplier APQP reviews using cross-functional teams for all outsourced products prior to approving PPAP
• Review supplier manufacturing processes, collaborate with suppliers on process improvement and value enhancement opportunities
• Support the Quality Manager to monitor and report on supplier product quality and performance
• Ensure compliance to RoHS, REACH and Conflict Minerals statutory requirements
• Participate in cross-functional teams in the development of new products or changes related to current products in meeting customer requirements
• Manage and coordinate supplier Parts Per Million (PPM), supplier problem solving on time, cost recovery and supplier warranty indicators
• Lead quality audits
• Support and lead process improvement activities at the supplier
• Undertake special projects as required
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities
• Facilitate the escalation of unresolved supplier quality issues within assigned projects and suppliers
• Execute, monitor, review and improve supplier score card on regular basis

Education and Experience Requirements

Diploma (with Exp. of 10+ Yrs.) / BE (with experience of 7+ Yrs.)

Functional Competencies

• Strong know-how of Machining, Stampings, Plastics and Electronics parts (knowledge of different commodities e.g., sheet metal, machining, adhesives, molding etc.)
• Hands-on experience in part validation (PPAP) and Quality tools
• Strong expertise in Process Development at Supplier
• Ensure compliance to RoHS, REACH and Conflict Minerals statutory requirements.
• Exposure to Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing techniques
• Working proficiency in usage of MS-Office Tools (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)
• Understand Engineering drawings and documents.
• Well conversant with implementing standards & Quality Systems like DIN, ISO, TS16949, OSHAS
• Working knowledge of ERP (Oracle / SAP etc.)

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Internal: Incoming Quality & QA, Production, Engineering, Sourcing, Purchase & Stores External: Suppliers

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluency in Verbal and written communication English & Hindi

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools. The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture. Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Our values

Our values frame our culture - a shared understanding of how we think and act relative to our key stakeholders. We center our behaviors, actions and decisions around the following values:

• Integrity
• Responsibility
• Diversity, Engagement & Inclusion
• Customer Success
• Innovation with Purpose
• Continuous Improvement
• Performance
• Passion to Win ….with a Sense of Urgency