BALACHANDRAN RAMASAMY

• Develops, implements and maintains the Quality Management system according ISO standards.
• Ensures all Corrective and Preventive actions are closed timely.
• Organizes and leads annual internal, external and customer audits.
• ·Organizes parts replacement for all customer’s complaint and feedback by resolving them in a timely manner.
• Ensures all measuring equipment are calibrated.
• Formulates, establishes a quality plan for outgoing inspection check on valve assembly line.
• Reviews and to provide disposition for all items in the Quarantine area.
• Prepares Quality Performance metrics and reports to management.
• Drives supplier improvement plan/actions effectively.
• Conducts supplier process audits to drive process standardization, waste elimination, and drive improvements via statistic controls. Establishing and effectively implementing related provision of Quality Management System
• Interact with customers, assess their quality requirement and initiate necessary steps to ensure that customer’s requirements are met
• Required final inspection on finished product before release for dispatch & Organizing calibration of measuring and test equipment’s
• Analyzing quality feedback from marketing/customer
• Responsible for implementing corrective action and Ensure that any planned corrective / preventative actions are implemented within the desired timeframe and they are suitably robust to prevent recurrence of future similar and related quality escapes
• Assist the Operations, Engineering and all Support functions in the quality system and product investigation cycle as deemed necessary by Quality Management & Assisting the Quality Assurance department with the attainment and maintenance of all new product introduction and existing company approvals
• Compilation of contract specific Quality Assurance documentation and Quality Management Plans and Procedures ensuring such comply with Regulatory Authority, Customer and Third Party requirements
• Support company process/efficiency improvementevents
• Continues…
• Undertake planned assurance activities including the performance process, product and compliance audits on both new product introductions as well as existing capabilities
• Assisting the Quality Assurance department with the attainment and maintenance of all new product introduction and existing company approvals

• Quality control and assurance activities like RM Incoming in process inspection on shop floor for Extrusion & Injection
• Moulded products as per Quality plan
• Preparing the Quality test reports (LTC,MTC & Compliance statement) & Non conformance report for previous day production
• Improve the efficiency of Quality control operations and completion analysis of test requirements
• Ensure ISO Compliance and all Quality standards, KITEMARK (BSI), ASTM, FM, WRAS, DIN, EN and ISO standards and other customer requirements are being meet
• Manage the engineering change process and act as customer/Supplier liaison for product quality issues
• Documents any NC issues, determine root cause & implement countermeasures to prevent their reoccurrence
• Co ordinate with Marketing and sales persons and providing the required sample details and updating in sample register

• As a Quality Engineer, I was responsible for many Quality concerned activities and Worked in project such: Hyundai, Autoliv-Toyota, Renault, Suprajit (Mercedes-Benz), Nissan, Honda, L&T, SMR, SML, Knorr-Bremse, TE Connectivity etc
• Tasked with Strategic Planning
• Managed the quality systems, including retention of ISO/TS16949
• Directed process control, continuous improvement, supply chain performance, customer management, product launch, PPAP, APQP, lab facilities, gauge control system and MSA
• Integrated strategic quality plans into business plans, Maintained and improved business processes across Quality operations, APQP, & lessons learned/ read across strategy
• Implemented best in class supply chain management program
• Standardized zero tolerance for defects strategy, customer service strategy & field warranty management processes
• Quality initiatives and Results:
• Quality control and assurance activities like RM Incoming in process, PDI, CP, FMEA, PFD, SPC &Layout inspection
• Completion of lean, sot sigma projects to minimize variation in test and measurement systems
• Established best-in-class process for auditing project management process
• Improve the efficiency of Quality control operations and completion analysis of test requirements
• Ensure ISO Compliance and all Quality standards, codes and customer requirements are being met
• Manage the engineering change process and act as customer liaison for product quality issues
• Documents any NC issues, determine root cause & implement countermeasures to prevent their reoccurrence
• Reduces returns and cut number of complaints in half by accelerating customer support response times

• (Mfr Of Injection & Extrusion Molded Plastics Products)
• Handled in project such: Hyundai, Hanil Automotive, MT-Term, SMR, DAS, DLI, Yongsan, TVS, and SL-Lumax etc
• Developed and implemented Quality functions, Strong working knowledge of quality ISO 9001:2008 and lean principles understanding of Quality activities, Non-conforming product, Completion and analysis of test requirements, CAPA creation and resolution in accordance with regulatory requirements
• Quality initiatives and Results:
• Performed of plastics raw material testing, Injection molding, extrusion molded parts inspection
• Initiated corrective and preventive action in areas which need improvement in terms of product quality
• Improved the efficiency from supplier products, cost reduction
• Maintained Quality management system from existing procedures and inspected products as per customer needs
• Performed final inspection and testing to ensure items were fit for customer applications.

GPA: 7.54/10