Assistant Manager - Quality Assurance & Control

JOB SUMMARY:

To plan, implement and monitor welding quality control activities, ensuring compliance with customer specifications, ASME codes, applicable standards, and company quality requirements throughout fabrication.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Quality Management

• Prepare Quality Assurance Plans (QAP), WPS, PQR and Weld Maps.
• Plan and witness hydrostatic and pneumatic pressure tests.
• Provide technical clarifications during project bidding.
• Manage welder qualification, WPQ records and continuity records.
• Review customer specifications, drawings, ITPs and quality plans

Inspection & Testing

• Conduct procedure qualification for plate, pipe and tube-to-tubesheet joints as per ASME Section IX.
• Review welding consumables, MTCs and approve release.
• Optimize welding processes and review joint preparation/bevel angles.
• Issue approved WPSs and Weld Maps after client approval.
• Monitor shop floor welding activities for code compliance.
• Train welders and ensure calibration of welding equipment.
• Coordinate with clients, third-party inspectors and authorized inspectors.
• Witness mechanical testing for procedure/performance qualification.
• Perform inspection before, during and after welding.
• Prepare final as-built documentation and maintain ISO 9001 records.

Customer Quality

• All Document On time Submit
• Improve customer satisfaction through quality initiatives.

Team Management

• Lead, supervise, and mentor the Quality Control team, including QC Engineers, Inspectors, and Technicians.
• Plan and allocate daily inspection activities in line with production schedules and project priorities.
• Monitor team performance and ensure timely completion of inspections without compromising quality.
• Provide technical guidance on fabrication, welding, NDT, dimensional inspection, and code compliance.
• Coordinate with Production, Engineering, Planning, Procurement, and Stores to resolve quality-related issues.
• Ensure all inspection personnel follow approved Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs), Quality Plans, WPS, and applicable ASME

Process Improvement

• Analyse rejection, rework and customer complaints.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• On time Welder Qualification
• On time WPS -PQR Qualification &
• On time QAP Submission

Documentation & Compliance

• Maintain Quality Manuals, SOPs and Work Instructions.
• Ensure proper document control.

Cross Functional Coordination

• New Welding Process development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• ASME Codes
• PED Standards
• Pressure Vessel Inspection
• Heat Exchanger Inspection
• Welding Inspection
• NDT Knowledge
• Root Cause Analysis (5 Why, Fishbone)
• CAPA
• MS Office
• ERP System

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Office and Shop Floor
• Regular factory inspections
• Vendor visits

EDUCATION:

• B.E. / B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 10-11 years of experience in Welding Engineer & Quality Control in Process Equipment / Pressure Vessel / Heavy Engineering / Manufacturing Industry.