Note: Solar Manufacturing Preferred

Primary Responsibilities :

Financial:

- Ensure adherence to QA & certification budgets

- Participate in forums on quality improvement /certifications initiatives resulting in a reduction of quality rejections and upgradation of output quality

Process :

- Develop and implement metrics to monitor and track global quality compliance requirements (including certification requirements such as TUV Rheiland, UL, UL CEC etc) and communicate these standards to all Technical operations team members

- Prepare guidelines, policies and procedures to standardize quality standards, from materials receipt to module dispatch, to ensure compliance with customer specifications & quality assurance requirements

- Develop, implement, communicate and maintain a quality plan to bring the company's quality systems and policies into compliance with quality system requirements.

- Manage and maintain the Company's internal quality audit program and assess improvement initiatives resulting from all Quality Audits-internal and external

- Play the role of Management Representative in initial certifications and design frameworks for subsequent quality certifications; identify Management Representatives for driving subsequent certifications

- Ensure the preparation (of new), improvement (of old), and development & implementation of Quality Manuals in the corporation

- Drive vendor/supplier development by continuously providing them feedback and sharing information on best practices related to quality

- Make proposals for automation of testing processes (data collection and recording) to improve efficiency and productivity

- Define standards for Module quality tests (e.g Sun simulator, Cell tests etc) and continuously upgrade these standards in line with best practices; Review quality inspection reports to participate in root cause analysis and solution implementation

- Benchmark the organization against industry best practices on a continuous basis in the context of quality assurance for manufacturing processes

- Develop internal and external feedback mechanisms to continuously improve service quality- ; work closely with customers to assess product and process consistency

- Ensure timely quality audits; record and analyze feedback and initiate follow-up audits where necessary

- Manage training of all company personnel in the requirement, documentation and maintenance of the corporate Quality System

- Manage and maintain all product certifications .i.e. TUV Rheiland, UL, UL CEC; Manage documentation related to Quality System guidelines

- Work closely with the Product and Process R&D team to bring about efficiency improvements by identifying production bottlenecks and ensuring the elimination of the same

People:

- Ensure timely goal setting, monitoring, review of performance parameters and feedback to the team members

- Ensure capability development of self and team members by actively participating and leveraging training & growth opportunities available including knowledge management initiatives

Any other additional responsibility could be assigned to the role holder from time to time as a standalone project or regular work. The same would be suitably represented in the Primary responsibilities and agreed between the incumbent and competent authority

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