Company Description
Sandfits Foundries Private Limited is a pre-eminent iron casting manufacturing company that produces Grey Iron, Ductile Iron, CG Iron, and AD Iron. Sandfits has 3 foundries with a capacity of 60000 tons PA. Sandfits has a dedicated machine shop to deliver precision iron components to customers worldwide. Sandfits Foundries are located in and around Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India and has a certified IATF 16949 and ISO 14001.
The Role
The Quality Manager will lead the establishment and deployment of a world-class quality management system for the state-of-the-art Vertical Foundry, ensuring delivery of zero-defect castings to global OEM customers. The role will ensure end-to-end quality assurance across the foundry value chainfrom raw materials and sand preparation to melting, casting, machining and dispatchwhile ensuring full compliance with IATF 16949, VDA and customer-specific requirements. The position will drive process discipline, internal soundness, rejection reduction, and continuous improvement, enabling the unit to achieve best-in-class performance in product quality and Cost of Quality (COQ).
Key Responsibilities
Foundry Process Quality
- Lead quality assurance across all foundry processes including sand preparation, core making, moulding, melting, pouring, fettling and machining.
- Monitor critical process parameters and ensure process discipline and SPC-based control.
- Authority to stop production in case of quality deviation.
Internal Soundness & NDT
- Ensure internal integrity of castings through robust testing systems.
- Establish and manage Non-Destructive Testing (UT, RT, MPI, DPT) where applicable.
- Define and monitor acceptance criteria for internal defects such as shrinkage, porosity and inclusions.
Metallurgical & Testing Laboratory
- Manage chemical, metallurgical and mechanical testing laboratories including spectrometer, hardness, microstructure and defect analysis.
- Ensure metallurgical control supports process capability and defect prevention.
Customer Quality
- Ensure 100% compliance with customer specifications and quality standards.
- Lead customer complaint resolution using 8D and root cause analysis.
- Interface with global OEM customers and support customer audits and reviews.
Quality Systems (QMS)
- Establish and sustain IATF 16949 compliant Quality Management System.
- Lead internal audits, layered process audits and certification audits.
- Ensure deployment of customer-specific requirements and VDA standards.
Advanced Quality Planning
- Lead deployment of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC and MSA for new product development.
- Ensure robust process validation and defect prevention during product launch.
Rejection Reduction & COPQ
- Drive reduction of internal rejection, rework and remelting.
- Improve first pass yield and reduce Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) through structured problem solving.
Team Leadership
- Build and develop a high-performing quality and metallurgy team and train the team
- Promote a culture of process discipline, zero-defect mindset and continuous improvement.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Metallurgy / Mechanical Engineering (Metallurgy preferred).
- 1215 years of experience in foundry quality management.
- Experience in ductile iron / grey iron castings.
- Exposure to IATF 16949, VDA standards and automotive OEM requirements.
- Experience in NDT methods such as UT and RT.
