Magna Electro Castings - Senior Manager - Quality - Rejection Reduction

Job Title : Sr Manager - Quality (Rejection Reduction)

Educational Qualification : BE or Diploma in Mechanical or Metallurgy or Advanced Degree in Foundry Technology

Reporting To: Senior Manager - QA / Senior General Manager - Operations

Age : 40 years and above

Experience : 17 to 22 years of experience in Foundry Quality Functions and at least 12 years in quality assurance leadership role.

About the Position:

Magna Electro Castings Ltd, a Public Limited Company listed in Mumbai Stock Exchange is a Professional Organization, driven by transparent working culture, is looking for a Professional candidate in its Quality Functions. The Sr.Manager must have very good knowledge in all foundry processes and experience in Green and Furan moulding methods,

Key Responsibilities:

- Reducing rejection by 50% from the existing level

- Daily review of all new product and regular parts rejection and updating the trend.

- Systematically taking defect mapping, analyzing the root cause with 4M conditions through 7QC tools and techniques.

- Conducting daily, weekly and monthly rejection reviews meeting and circulating minutes to all concern.

- Responsible for implementing corrective actions for foundry related defects in daily production by proactive approach.

- Sand and other parameters trend monitoring and correlating with rejections trend. Operating the production with past lowest rejection conditions.

- Applying DMAIC approach to reduce rejections drastically in chronical problems, and for process optimization

- Effective participation in all trials, improvement taken place.

- Cascading all the corrective actions taken in each and every parts to shop floor personnel.

- Audit of process parameters during production against requirements and correlating with rejections

- Coordinating with relevant department for proper updation of documents related to rejection reduction

- Leading rejection reduction projects with relevant department

- Developing QCC teams for similar rejection reduction projects and problem solving

- Stopping the production if deviations from requirements noticed.

- Implementing best foundry practices and training the team to sustain it.

Personal Attributes:

- Highly organized and detail-oriented.

- Strong collaborative and team-working capabilities.

- Adaptable and open to change.

Competency & Skills:

- Well verse in data collection and analysis.

- Knowledge and application of Six sigma methodology in process optimisation, defect elimination .

- Proficiency in data analysis tools and software (e.g., Excel, Ppt, etc.,) minitab and statistical software.

- Analytical ability to analyse with data, trend capturing.

- Familiarity with gating methods and process parameters to correlate with rejections.

- Foundry Defects and Remedies knowledge and application.

- Very good communication and cross functional collaboration skills.

Direct Reportees: Managers, Sr Engineer, Engineers and Supervisors.