Quality Engineer Team Lead (Cable & Wire Harness)

Role & responsibilities :

• Designed and developed cable and wire harness assemblies based on electrical, mechanical, and customer requirements.
• Created and maintained harness drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, pin-out details, BOMs, and manufacturing documentation.
• Selected suitable wires, terminals, connectors, seals, sleeves, conduits, clips, and other harness components.
• Performed wire routing and harness packaging while considering bend radius, clearance, accessibility, serviceability, and mechanical constraints.
• Prepared wire lists, cut lists, splice details, and harness assembly instructions.
• Verified connector pinning, wire gauge, terminal selection, circuit continuity, and electrical interfaces.
• Supported crimping, splicing, soldering, termination, and harness assembly activities.
• Conducted prototype builds, testing, validation, and production support for cable and harness assemblies.
• Troubleshot wiring issues including open circuits, short circuits, incorrect pinning, poor crimping, and connector-related failures.
• Applied DFM/DFA principles to improve manufacturability, reliability, assembly efficiency, and cost.
• Coordinated with electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, supplier, and customer teams to resolve technical issues.
• Managed engineering changes and updated drawings, BOMs, specifications, and related technical documentation.
• Supported root-cause analysis and corrective actions for harness quality and production issues.
• Ensured harness designs and manufacturing processes complied with applicable customer and industry standards.

Preferred candidate profile :

• Experience: 5-10 years in cable & wire harness manufacturing, assembly, or automotive/electrical systems.

• Technical skills:
• Lead a team responsible for cable and wire harness design, development, validation, and documentation.
• Handle customer communication for technical clarifications, design changes, requirements, and issue resolution.
• Review customer drawings, specifications, wiring diagrams, BOMs, and engineering change requirements.
• Coordinate with Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, and Project Management teams.
• Manage engineering changes and ensure timely implementation of customer requirements.
• Conduct technical discussions with customers and prepare action plans, reports, and presentations.
• Support prototype builds, testing, validation, and production ramp-up.
• Resolve issues related to routing, connectors, terminals, crimping, wire selection, shielding, EMC, and harness assembly.
• Mentor team members and monitor workload, quality, and project deliverables.

• Team leadership:
• Lead and allocate work to operators/technicians.
• Monitor daily production, manpower, productivity, and line targets.
• Train new operators and enforce standardized work.
• Coordinate with Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, and Production Planning.