Role description
The Manager – Quality Assurance is responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring the end‑to‑end Quality Assurance system for structural fabrication at ISB, ensuring compliance with approved drawings, project specifications, EN/ISO/IS codes, customer requirements, and statutory norms. The role ensures consistent quality from incoming material inspection through Cutting, Fit-up, Welding, Drilling , Surface protection, final inspection, and release, driving right‑first‑time delivery and continual improvement.
a) System Management:
- Preparation, review, and update of Quality Manual, Quality Plans, ITPs, SOPs, WPS, inspection formats, and quality records.
- Ensure document control, traceability, and effective record management across fabrication activities.
- Plan and conduct System & Process audits at periodic intervals
b) Material Control: Identification and tracking of all incoming raw materials and welding consumables.
c) Fabrication Quality Assurance - Monitor quality throughout the entire fabrication process, from Raw Material to final painting, ensuring adherence to technical codes, QAP and specifications.
d) Welding & NDT Control
- Review and approve WPS, PQR, and welder qualification records.
- Ensure in‑process and final welding inspection as per approved procedures and standards.
- Plan and control NDT activities (RT, UT, MT, PT, VT) as per applicable codes and ITP.
- Review NDT results, analyse defects and ensure corrective and preventive actions for defects.
e) Final Inspection, Release & Documentation - Ensure completion and accuracy of QA dossiers, inspection records, and traceability documents.
f) Improvement & Problem Solving: Manage non-conformance reports, analyse quality trends, and drive initiatives to continuously reduce defects and rework.
g) Team & Interface Management - Lead and guide the QA team, collaborate effectively with other departments (Production, Engineering, Planning, Stores, and HSE) to foster a strong, process-driven quality culture.
Skills
a) Drawing - Ability in reading & interpreting structural fabrication drawings, Knowledge of Welding Symbols, Drawing Projections,
b) Codes and Standards – Expertise on IS 7215, Well conversant with ASME Sec IX & V, Section VIII, AWS D1.1, Measurement techniques and Tolerances
c) Welding – Knowledge on WPS, PQR, WQT etc, Types of Welding Processes, Weld defects and its identification skill sets, In process parameters for Welding, Welding Inspection – Before, During and Post Welding
d) Raw Materials – Understanding on the grades and identification capability of RM defects
e) Process Flow - Knowledge of QAP/ITP, Quality Inspection of Structural Fabrication,
f) Documentation - Conversant with Quality Inspection Protocols and its documentation
g) Basic understanding of surface preparation & painting process and its inspection.
h) Others –
- Knowledge of QM / ISO 9001
- Understanding of Problem Solving and Root Cause Analysis
Other details
B.E. / B. Tech / in Mechanical / Structural Engineering
- Certified in ASNT NDT Level II
- Welding Inspector / CSWIP or any Welding Related Certification
About Tata Steel Ltd
Tata Steel is among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 34 million tonnes per annum. It is one of the world's most geographically diversified steel producers, with operations and commercial presence across the world. The group recorded a consolidated turnover of US $32,836 million in the financial year ending March 31, 2022. A Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM organisation, Tata Steel Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, associates, and joint ventures, is spread across five continents with an employee base of over 65,000
