Balaji B
Sr.Engineer – Quality Assurance
Dharmapuri
Summary
Quality Assurance Lead coordinating PPM reduction across 3–5 lines, inspection controls, and corrective action closure across production and customer issues. Leads document control, audit closure, calibration follow-up for 26–50 instruments per month, and review of rejection trends to keep processes aligned with ISO 9001:2015 requirements. Drives inspector readiness through training, standard work, and daily quality follow-up.
Overview
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9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Enginner
Pricol
02.2025 - Current
- Led cross-functional teams to enhance product design and engineering processes.
- Implemented advanced testing protocols, ensuring compliance with industry standards and specifications.
- Developed and optimized engineering workflows for increased efficiency and reduced project timelines.
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering skill development and promoting best practices in engineering methods.
- Reduce Customer PPM through enhancing the inhouse rejections and analyse
- Initiated process improvement initiatives that resulted in significant reductions in operational costs.
- Analyse system performance data to identify areas for improvement and drive strategic enhancements.
Sr Engineer
TVS Sundaram Auto components
07.2023 - 02.2025
- Responsible for analyzing the customer return parts Submit Action plan / 8D on time to customer
- Regular follow-up with customer to close the claim status in their portal.
- Maintain database for customer complaints (Claim tracking sheet, S8D, Action plan, Analysis results, Customer communication / customer specific reports related to claim)
- Regular line visit to cross verify the customer related actions, ensure operators are aware about recent customer complaints
- Identify potential risks and cross check for production approval activity like, First-off, Set up checklist, startup check list, Part identification, Final inspection, Poka-Yoke and its validation practice etc..
- Cross verify the production records daily. Example:
- Line wise production Vs. rejection, supervisor approval status and availability of EOL Data.
- Tracking rejection as per EOL data and control station data.
- Attend daily line rejection review meeting, Communicate to CFT and line operators about customer complaints and provide Q-Alert timely and co –ordinate for immediate containment action to customer within 24 Hrs.
- Conduct brainstorming session at line along with CFT to find out root cause for customer complaint.
- Conduct follow-up meeting with CFT about closer of customer complaint related actions.
- Face customer audits - Submit action plan for the open points
- Assembly related issue solved with internal team
- 3W1H methodologies used for in-house PDI and Final complaints
- Weld strength Checking & report prepared and monitoring frequency on daily basis
- Revalidation Summary and report preparation as per customer requirement
- Well known to prepare Standard operation procedure (SOP), Inspection Standard (IS), Control Plan (CP), PFD (Process Flow Diagram), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
- July 2023 ~ Present : Sr Engineer – TVS Sundaram Auto components, Oragadam, Chennai.
Engineer
GV Industries
08.2018 - 07.2023
- Ensuring the quality of online products.
- Analyze of all Customer end issues happening & Preparing countermeasure report to get approval from Top management before submitting it to the customer.
- Find the defect on Plastics components, Raw material and Process defect.
- Check the lagging process.
- To reduce In house PPM against the target 2000 PPM.
- Ensuring the availability of online documents with latest revision.
- Ensuring the process running as per SMP.
- Submitting PPAP (ISIR) for all new products development to customer and get approval
- Ensuring the availability of master & limit sample for all running parts.
- Daily reviewing of ISO status & Daily rejection reporting & Maintaining control charts as per CP.
- Controlling of Measuring equipment’s and calibration follow up for all instruments.
- Closing internal / external audit Non conformities.
- Ensuring the availability & display of ‘Q’ Alert for all Internal & Customer end Issues.
- Prepared Monthly In-house Inspection rejection reports for management review meeting.
- Handling the ISO 9001:2015 documents for checking process.
- Daily Customer end issues monitoring & documentation of all customer end quality issues.
- Prepare Standard operation procedure (SOP), Inspection Standard (IS), Control Plan (CP), PFD (Process Flow Diagram), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
- Identifying training needs and organizing on-the-job trainings for inspectors to increase their skills & productivity.
- Aug 2018 ~ July 2023 : Engineer – GV Industries ,Keelkattalai Chennai.
Apprenticeship
JSW Steel Limited
07.2017 - 06.2018
- July 2017 ~ June 2018 : Apprenticeship – JSW Steel Limited Bellary , Karnataka.
Education
B.E. - Mechanical Engineering
JAYAM college of Engineering and Technology
Dharmapuri01-2017
HSC - undefined
Amala Higher Secondary School
Dharmapuri01-2013
SSLC - undefined
Amala Higher Secondary School
Dharmapuri01-2010
Skills
- Quality assurance
- PPAP preparation
- Final inspection
- Problem analysis
- Countermeasure report
- Supplier quality control
- 8D reporting
- Control plan
- FMEA
- SPC charts
Accomplishments
- Internship of Jsw steel plant in Karnataka
- Exhaust system by Robert bosch of government college of technology in Coimbatore.
- Paper presentation of Psv college of engineering and technology in Krishnagiri.
- IIIC 2016 in Dhanalakshmi College of engineering in Chennai.
Timeline
Sr Enginner
Pricol
02.2025 - Current
Sr Engineer
TVS Sundaram Auto components
07.2023 - 02.2025
Engineer
GV Industries
08.2018 - 07.2023
Apprenticeship
JSW Steel Limited
07.2017 - 06.2018
SSLC - undefined
Amala Higher Secondary School
HSC - undefined
Amala Higher Secondary School
B.E. - Mechanical Engineering
JAYAM college of Engineering and Technology
Location Preference
Chennai / Bangalore/ Hosur
TRAININGS ATTENDED
- COPQ / COQ
- SPC / MSA
- Quality Control Circle (QCC)
- TPM & TQM / FMEA
- PPM Reduction
- IATF Internal Audit program.
- ISO 9001:2015 awareness and auditing programs