Sub Section Head - Quality Control - Pipe Plant - Jhagadia - Steel
Welspun World · Not specified · onsite · Posted 64d ago
Undisclosed15–20 yrsfulltimeSourced from
About a minute. You'll make an account on the way through.
About this role
(Candidates with Graduate Engineer - Metallurgy/Mechanical Can apply)
Principal Accountabilities*
- Quality Control & Assurance
- Lead overall Quality Control activities for stainless steel pipe manufacturing, ensuring compliance with customer specifications, applicable standards, and internal quality requirements.
- Establish and maintain quality control systems, procedures, inspection plans, and quality checkpoints across the manufacturing process.
- Monitor product quality trends and drive corrective and preventive actions to reduce defects, rejections, and customer complaints.
- Ensure effective implementation of Quality Management System requirements and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Inspection & Testing
- Supervise incoming material, in-process, final inspection, and testing activities for stainless steel pipes.
- Ensure proper inspection of dimensional, surface, mechanical, chemical, metallurgical, and other product characteristics as applicable.
- Monitor NDT and inspection processes such as UT, Eddy Current, Hydro Testing, PMI, Visual Inspection, and other applicable methods.
- Ensure calibration, validation, and reliability of inspection and testing equipment.
- Review inspection reports, test certificates, and final quality documentation before product release.
- New Product Development
- Lead Quality Control activities for New Product Development of stainless steel pipes based on customer requirements and market needs.
- Develop quality and inspection criteria for new grades, sizes, specifications, and applications.
- Coordinate with R&D, Production, Process Engineering, and Marketing teams for trials, validation, qualification, and commercialization of new products.
- Analyze trial results and implement necessary process and quality improvements before mass production.
- Support customer approval, product qualification, and technical documentation for new products.
- Process & Product Improvement
- Identify critical quality parameters and establish process controls to improve product consistency.
- Conduct root cause analysis for quality failures using appropriate problem-solving methodologies.
- Drive initiatives for reduction of rejection, rework, process variation, and customer complaints.
- Implement statistical and data-driven quality improvement practices.
- Customer & Technical Support
- Handle customer quality complaints, conduct root cause analysis, and ensure timely corrective actions.
- Support customer audits, product inspections, technical discussions, and qualification activities.
- Review customer specifications and translate requirements into appropriate inspection and testing standards.
- Team Leadership
- Lead and develop the Quality Control and Inspection team, ensuring competency and effective deployment of manpower.
- Define performance objectives and provide technical guidance and training to quality personnel.
- Promote a strong quality culture across manufacturing and support functions.
- Compliance & Documentation
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards such as ASTM, ASME, API, EN, ISO, and customer-specific requirements, as applicable.
- Maintain quality records, inspection reports, test certificates, and product traceability documentation.
- Participate in internal, external, customer, and certification audits and ensure closure of audit findings.
- Continuous Improvement
- Establish quality KPIs and monitor performance against defined targets.
- Drive continuous improvement projects focused on quality, productivity, cost reduction, and customer satisfaction.
- Benchmark inspection and quality practices and implement best-in-class methodologies within the stainless steel pipe manufacturing process.
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Skills
CalibrationQuality DocumentationincomingNDTUTInprocessFINAL INSPECTIONInspectionProduct qualityPlantISOFinal QualityRoot Cause AnalysisCustomer QualityCustomer AuditsProcess ControlQuality ControlManufacturingproductionquality management