Management Skills:
? Managing Quality Control Department by supervising team of 6 Chemists & 3 Lab assistants, making weekly Shift plans & other Lab activities for team on duties.
? Working with higher management to match the Company's technical, Quality and operational capabilities to internal & external customer needs through developing a clear understanding of customer's needs, technical challenges and key drivers.
? To conduct weekly tool kit meetings to discuss internal issues & points of improvement for environment & Energy conservation with team as a part of Team building activities & its management
Quality Assurance, Auditing & Customer complaints handling:
? Assists in developing maintaining and revision in policies and procedures for the general operation of the Compliance Program and its related activities to prevent illegal, unethical, or improper conduct.
? Identifies potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk; develops/implements corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues, and provides general guidance on how to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future.
? Conduct periodic internal reviews or audits to ensure that compliance procedures are followed.
? Identify compliance issues that require follow-up or investigation.
? Maintain documentation of compliance activities, such as complaints received or investigation outcomes.
? To lead the Internal QMS, EMS & Energy MS audits in the Company highlighting the areas of Improvements & to take care of Department in absence of Quality Manager.
? Responsible for Development & revision of quality procedures and work instructions including review of all the documents pertaining to Quality Control
Equipment Calibration & Troubleshooting:
? Responsible for governing the regular calibration & maintenance of different equipment as specified in calibration schedule.
? Responsible for Equipment failure analysis & Root cause analysis along with corrective & Preventive actions.
? Manages day-to-day operation of the Program.
Operational & Product Cost Optimization:
? To develop formulation guidance for reprocessing of slow moving & dead stock ensuring close coordination with all manufacturing units in order to contribute in exhausting slow or dead stock under cost saving projects.
? Also to give guidance in revision or amendment in Product technical control specifications accordingly.
? . Identify quality related issues and to give recommendations for continuous improvement.
? To work on CAPA-Corrective Actions & Preventive Actions pertaining to Plant operations & Quality control of process & Testing with collaboration of Production Team.
? Responsible for 5S implementation & Kaizen leads along with SWOT Analysis where if needed.
? To carry out formulations, optimizations and pilot blend developments as per Production requirements with liaison of Technical Department to optimize cost of product & system.
Quality Lab Operational Management:
? To ensure safe handling & testing of all chemicals, raw material (additives, Base oil), in-process and finished Products-Lubes & Greases (engine oils, gear oils, hydraulic oils, cutting oils, Transmission Fluids & industrial oils along with General Purpose, Lithium based & Molybdenum Greases) and to ensure that samples are tested as per frequency and as per defined ASTM test methods at all stages.
? To ensure Up-keep of all testing and QC records, formulation documents, RFC's and data.
? To stick with the quality procedures & working efficiently in order to achieve lab KPI's to meet in target with the group Level with my team collaboration.
? To administrate stock counting of consumables in lab by delegating the work to team also.
? To make monthly departmental reports by extracting & compiling the data from LIMS software of Laboratory.
? To ensure timely and correct entries of BOM and SAP as per the codes by Technical department •To ensure on time testing by team on ROUND ROBIN samples received from Group level worldwide to monitor Lab efficiency & reporting results to Corporate Head Office France.
Innovation Project Handling:
? Using WAT platform for sharing and giving reviews regarding ongoing projects, innovations & project related problem to get & give solutions & suggestions through worldwide stakeholders.
? Responsible for giving new innovative ideas supporting QMS, EMS & EnMS