Supplier Quality Assurance - Senior Engineer / Assistant Manager

TAFE -EPD or Engineering Plastics and Tool Room Division is a subsidiary of TAFE, providing interior components to major automobile players like Skoda-Volkswagen, Jeep, TATA, Hyundai etc. It operates 5 manufacturing plants, 2 RnD Centers and 1 Tool Room across India.

As a ASQ Senior Engineer / Assistant Manager within the Organization, your primary responsibility will be to manage the APQP of purchased parts during Program Development. Key responsibilities include:

1) APQP Management during Development phases:

• Deploy APQP related to the Development phase of Purchased Parts.
• Define the Risk and suppliers to be followed.
• Ensure that suppliers sourced respect Mandatory rules and Audit criteria.
• Get Feasibility Commitment sign off for sourcing and for change implementation.
• Define Supplier APQP plan with objectives, risk assessment, critical suppliers, critical parts, key milestones, deliverables, R@R and PPAP planning, resources & supports needs.
• Update every month the supplier APQP Plan.
• Participate at Design Review Meeting and ECR Meeting.
• Facilitate exchanges between functions and suppliers for design freeze convergence.
• Escalate Alerts to Program and Management. Support suppliers for 8D completion.
• Train the suppliers and make sure that the defined standards are properly applied (APQP elements),
• Follow the APQP progress with status report.
• Use of Lessons learned from prior programs, as input to SNC.

2) Run @ Rate and Process Audit

• Manage the Process Qualification at Supplier (Control Plan & Quality Basics implementation).
• Conduct FPT & MPT Run@Rate and Process Audit for High and Medium risk components.
• Get control records from Suppliers for all their parts.

3) PPAP Construction

• Responsible for PPAP construction and New parts Approval during Development phase.
• Coordinate with SQA Production Trial Runs on New parts during Development phase.
• Ensure that 100% of S/R parts will be validated at GR3.

4) Transition to series:

• Ensure that All documentations are updated.
• 100% of S/R characteristics secured.
• Ensure that incoming inspection instructions integrate control means according to Suppliers Control Plan.

The candidate must have:

• 4-6 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum qualification of Diploma in Tooling in case of Senior Engineer or Bachelors in case of Assistant Manager.,
• Experience in Injection Processing and Plastics.
• Fluent in English and if necessary, in the Customer language (Marathi and Hindi).
• Good communication and presentation skills, and capacity of empathy.
• Accountable and results oriented Get the things done.
• Team player and ability to work in CFT organization.