Engineer - SQE (Forging)

• Manage supplier quality for forged components used in Gear Units, including shafts, gear blanks, pinions, and other forged parts.
• Ensure supplier and part qualification in accordance with procedures, including PPAP and applicable quality documentation.
• Conduct supplier process audits and capability assessments covering forging, heat treatment, machining, and inspection processes.
• Verify compliance with component drawings, material specifications, applicable standards, and customer-specific quality requirements.
• Review material test certificates, chemical composition, mechanical properties, grain flow, and metallurgical test results, as applicable.
• Ensure effective control of forging defects such as cracks, laps, seams, inclusions, shrinkage, and improper material flow.
• Monitor heat treatment processes and verify hardness, microstructure, case depth, and other specified requirements, where applicable.
• Ensure effective control of dimensional accuracy, machining allowances, and stock availability for subsequent machining operations.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions (8D, 5-Why, etc.) for supplier-related quality issues.
• Coordinate with Incoming Inspection, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Procurement to resolve forging quality issues.
• Ensure supplier process changes, raw material changes, and outsourced operations are controlled and approved before implementation.
• Monitor supplier quality performance through rejection rates, SFR, corrective action closure, and non-conformance cost (NCC).
• Drive supplier development and continuous improvement to improve process capability and prevent recurring forging defects.
• Coordinate supplier-related non-conformance cost assessment and recovery in accordance with Flender procedures.
• Drive reduction of supplier defects, machining rejections, assembly failures, and customer complaints through preventive quality measures.

Experience:

• 8-10 years in Forging and Steel Industry.

Qualification:

• BE Mechanical or Metallurgy

Your contact person(s) for this job posting is/are:

Thirumalai Kumar T

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