Job Description

Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

• Drive supplier quality improvement initiatives for sheet metal parts including stampings, weldments, assemblies, and bracketry components.
• Ensure compliance with defined quality standards, inspection criteria, and customer requirements.
• Support supplier capability enhancement in sheet metal manufacturing processes, welding, surface treatment, and related special processes.
• Participate in supplier assessments and development programs to improve quality, delivery, and process capability.
• Monitor supplier quality KPIs such as Supplier PPM, rejection trends, warranty issues, defect phenomena, and production loss incidents.
• Lead supplier concern resolution through structured problem-solving methodologies (8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, etc.).
• Ensure timely implementation and verification of corrective and preventive actions.
• Support periodic supplier performance reviews and follow-up on improvement actions.
• Escalate recurring quality concerns and drive sustainable countermeasures with suppliers.
• Drive APQP activities for new component development in coordination with sourcing, supplier, design, and manufacturing teams.
• Review and approve PPAP documentation to ensure readiness for production.
• Monitor supplier readiness against project timelines and milestone requirements.
• Evaluate and control supplier process, tooling, and material changes through established change management processes.
• Maintain supplier quality reports, action trackers, and performance dashboards.
• Support digitalization initiatives related to supplier quality monitoring and concern tracking.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on defect reduction, process capability improvement, and supplier performance enhancement.

Preferred Industries

Automobile

Education Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering; Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical; Bachelor of Engineering in Automobile

General Experience

8-12 Years of experience in Supplier Quality, Supplier Development, or Manufacturing Quality, with significant exposure to Sheet Metal commodities.

Critical Experience

System Generated Core Skills

7 QC Tools

Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

Analytics

Auditing

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Metallurgy

Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

System Generated Secondary Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork