Quality Control Engineer at Ascentech Services Limited

Job Summary

• The Quality Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality of products manufactured in the plant, overseeing processes, and managing parts quality.
• The role involves developing and implementing quality procedures and systems, tracking defects, analyzing trends, and ensuring that only fully compliant products are shipped to customers.
• The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in quality assurance within the automobile or ancillary industries.

Responsibilities

• Quality Procedures and Systems: Develop and implement quality procedures and systems across the entire production value chain.
• Standards Development: Establish standards to meet quality requirements at each step of the assembly process.
• Quality Communication and Tracking: Create and maintain a system for effective quality communication and tracking.
• Torque and Audit Systems: Develop standard torque lists, conduct torque audits, and monitor CP and CPK.
• Line Quality Standards: Define and enforce quality standards for production lines.
• PDI Quality Standards: Set quality standards for the Pre-Delivery Inspection (PDI) area.
• Training: Provide training for quality inspectors and operators at quality-critical stations.
• Incoming Quality Inspection: Develop processes for inspecting incoming materials.
• In-Process Inspection: Define standards for in-process inspections.
• Critical to Quality Stations (CTQ): Identify and manage critical to quality stations.
• RFT Monitoring: Control and monitor Right First Time (RFT) metrics.
• Defect Trend Monitoring: Track and analyze daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly defect trends.
• Root Cause Analysis: Conduct root cause analyses, implement corrective actions, and verify their effectiveness.
• PDCA Implementation: Check the effectiveness of corrective actions through the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle.
• IRU Claims: Maintain records of Internal Reject Units (IRU) claims and develop corrective actions to control them.
• Quality Kaizen & TPM: Implement quality improvements (kaizen) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodologies.
• Poka Yoke Development: Develop error-proofing (poka yoke) solutions for critical quality stations.

Qualifications
Education:

• Diploma or BE in Production, Manufacturing, or Mechanical Engineering.

Experience:

• Diploma: 5 - 7+ years of experience in quality assurance.
• BE 3 - 4+ years of experience in quality assurance.

Industry Experience:

• Preferred experience in the automobile industry or ancillary and vendor units.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of quality assurance principles and practices.
• Proficient in root cause analysis and corrective action implementation.
• Excellent communication and training skills.
• Ability to develop and implement quality procedures and systems.
• Strong analytical skills for tracking defects and trends.
• Familiarity with kaizen, TPM methodologies, and poka yoke development.