Quality Manager – Automotive Manufacturing (Sheet Metal)

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About the Company:

Jupiter Industrial Works Thane, with over 60 years of manufacturing excellence, is a trusted leader in clamps, hose clips, and pipe couplings. Serving automotive OEMs, industrial, marine, and irrigation sectors, Jupiter operates advanced manufacturing facilities in Navi Mumbai and Pune, fully compliant with IATF 16949 standards. The company is known for innovation, reliability, and delivering high-quality solutions to domestic and global customers.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced Quality Manager from a mass production automotive OE environment, preferably with a sheet metal background, to lead quality assurance, customer satisfaction, and continual improvement initiatives at our Rabale manufacturing unit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure customer satisfaction and continuously improve customer support.
• Achieve and sustain Zero PPM, Zero Rework, and Zero customer / in-process / incoming / field complaints.
• Lead quality issue analysis and control using RCA, POKA-YOKE, Kaizen, and Six Sigma.
• Handle customer quality concerns confidently and persuasively; implement required changes with minimal impact on process, tooling, cost, and complexity.
• Drive Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) to zero.
• Lead continual improvement initiatives.
• Maintain online IATF documentation and ensure audit readiness.
• Ensure prompt, clear, and to-the-point reporting.

Requirements:

• BE in Production / Industrial / Mechanical Engineering.
• Mandatory experience catering to Automotive OE customers.
• Proven exposure to:

1000+ hot running items.

10+ OEM customers.

100+ workforce.

Thousands of tools, multiple machines, and sub-assemblies

• Strong working knowledge of IATF 16949.
• Strong customer-handling, communication, and persuasion skills.
• Strong knowledge of special processes.
• Strong understanding of impacts due to process deviation.
• Knowledge of how to transfer CSR into routine requirement.
• DWM -Including Team members.
• Knowledge of Process validation & product validation.
• Customer oriented, customer Focused approach.
• Knowledge of APQP.
• Knowledge of Core Tools & 7 Q.C. Tools.
• Knowledge of 7 F.M.
• Knowledge of Risk assessment of Process & product.
• Knowledge of SPC/MSA/PPAP/Change Management.
• Expertise in execution of Audits-- Internal/External/certification system Audits/ Process/product Audit.
• Supplier Audits-Supplier management.
• Team Building approach.