SUSHIL SHARMA

Contact No.: 09899791676

H.No. 649, Sector-8, Faridabad (Haryana)
Email: sushil_er2002@rediffmail.com

“Targeting next level opportunities in the domains of Quality Management

(QA & QC) with renowned business organization.”
PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT
 Seasoned and versatile Mechanical Engineering professional of Q.A. in Automotive manufacturing
industries (On Road & Off-Road Vehicles; Construction/Earthmoving Equipment Manufacturing
Industries) with around 20 years of wide exposure in Incoming, Supplier, Process, Final & Customer
Quality, Quality Management. Successfully worked in ESCORTS CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT,
FARIDABAD for almost 16 years (now known as Escorts Kubota Ltd.).
 Proven track record of successfully managing dozens of suppliers of Sheet metal, Fabrication,
Casting, Machining, Proprieties commodities with extensive knowledge of Process of Sheet
Metal, Welding & Fabrication.
 Demonstrated competencies in deriving substantial improvements across diverse business processes
with implementation of latest Quality Management Tools; deft in preparing the Quality Assurance Plans
(QAP); sound understanding of the Industrial Standards, Quality Management Techniques–PPAP,3M,
APQP, MSA, KAIZEN, POKA–YOKE, 7 QC Tools, 5S, 8 D Methodology, internal audits etc.
 Vast and good exposure with suppliers in technical sign off and different part development stages during
new developments (APQP activities), developing alternate sourcing, supplier validation & up-gradation
specially for heavy fabricated parts.
A.R.T. Fabrication Inds. Pvt. Ltd (QA SR. Manager)-Mar’23 to Nov’23)
A.R.T. Fabrication Industries is an ISO 9001:2015 certified leading heavy structural fabrication parts
manufacturing company based in Faridabad. Company is engaged in making and supplying heavy fabrication
and sheet metal quality parts directly to construction equipment manufacturing OEM like Escorts (EKL), ACE,
etc.
QA & NPD Functions Activities (Escorts)
 Responsible for complete incoming QA, process QA, PDI stage QA, field and customer quality by driving
& ensuring stringent checks at every stage.
 Develop and initiate standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation to meet the required
specifications e.g. CTQ check sheet, QIS, WI, SOP etc.
 Ensuring dispatch of defect free products to customers.
 Attend customer complaints, returns, warranty claims and implement corrective & preventive actions.
 Enhancing customer satisfaction by reduction in defects and achieving desired PPM.
 Development plan execution along with DU team with complete documentation e.g. PPAP submission.
 Kaizen, continuous improvements.
 Daily, weekly & monthly MIS review with team & management
 Ensuring100% calibration and validation compliance of instruments, paint shop & all fixtures and
receiving gauges of plant.
 Encouraging quality culture in organization.
 Organize and conduct process and product audits to improve processes.
 Employee welfare & engagement: -Trainings, award & reward scheme, improve employee engagement &
reduction in attrition rate.
 Training to team members on various quality concepts as per customers.
 Always giving confidence to customers by ensuring accountability, transparency, competitive edge with
completion of targets like on time delivery, rejection control, cost effectiveness & operational efficiency.
 Executing all NPD activities starting from technical sign off with customer to final PPAP submission.

AutoScan India Pvt. Ltd. (QA Manager)-Aug’22 to Feb’23)

AutoScan India is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company of E-PPL group of UK. Company is engaged in
3rd party quality inspection, engineering support & training for Automotive and Construction Equipment
Industries. It has extreme customer base in India having tie up with renowned customers like JCB, Escorts
Kubota, Class India, Manitou, CNH, Perkins, Knorr Bremse, Ashok Leyland, Cummins, Wirtgen group, ACE
group, Gates, Rhinox, Imperial, Tata Hitachi, Volkswagen etc.
QA Functions Head (At JCB Supplier)
 Responsible for complete incoming QA, process QA, testing-PDI stages QA, field and customer quality by
driving & ensuring stringent checks at every stage.
 Plan and direct activities concerned with development, application, and maintenance of quality standards
for processes, materials, and products.
 Develop and initiate standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation to meet the required
specifications e.g. CTQ check sheet, QIS, WI, SOP etc.
 Ensuring dispatch of defect free products to customers.
 Drive Quality improvements by ensuring reduction in Reduction warranty cost & customer complaints.
 Attend customer complaints, returns, warranty claims and implement corrective & preventive actions.
 Enhancing customer satisfaction by reduction in defects and achieving desired PPM.
 Product Quality & Reliability by maintaining effective monitoring at incoming, paint shop, assembly stage
and PDI stage in term of quality.
 Development plan execution along with DU team with complete documentation e.g. PPAP submission.
 Kaizen, continuous improvements.
 Daily, weekly & monthly MIS review with team & management
 Ensuring complete end to end ISO documentation; ISO certification, training and internal audits.
 Ensuring 100% calibration and validation compliance of standard room instruments, paint shop lab
instruments & all fixtures and receiving gauges of plant.
 Encouraging quality culture in organization.
 Organize and conduct process and product audits to improve processes.
 Employee welfare & engagement: -Trainings, award & reward scheme, improve employee engagement &
reduction in attrition rate.
 Training to team members on various quality concepts as per customers’ requirement e.g. training as
per CTQ & check sheets, welding, machining, APQP, PPAP, 7QC tools, 8D, safety, documentation etc.

Indo Farm Equipment (QA SR. Manager, Crane)-Apr’21 to Sep’21

Indo Farm Equipment ltd. Baddi (H.P.); IFEL is a leading Tractor, Pick and Cary Cranes and
Engines manufacturing OEM company of India.
 Responsible for complete incoming QA, process QA, testing-PDI stages QA, field and customer quality by
driving & ensuring stringent checks at every stage with leading a team of 30 members.
 Conducting daily in-house fabrication lines audit & parts inspection to ensure smooth functioning.
 Ensuring the timely 100% testing and PDI of machines on daily basis as per standard.
 Taking actions for the defects observed at line, Testing and PDI stages to improve DPM at every stage.
 Product audit at PDI stages to identify the gaps and taking action accordingly.
 Daily work management- ORC issues meeting and action plan monitoring.
 Analysis of field failed parts and action implementation at various areas on assembly line.
 Process Audits of lines for measuring the quality output and ensuring smooth functioning of lines.
 Preparation & display of QIS CTQ, OPL, SOP & Work Instruction Sheets.
 Formulating ways to continuously improve incoming parts rejections & suppliers PPM.
 Daily, weekly & monthly preparation of MIS data and taking actions accordingly.
 Working on priority for resolving customer complaints and reducing warranty cost.
 Sub-ordinates upskilling and development through training.
 Ensuring 100% calibration compliance of measuring instruments, gauges & torquing tools.

Escorts Construction Equipment -(Apr’2005 to Jan’2021)

ECE at Faridabad continues to be the one the largest manufacturer of Pick n Carry Hydraulic Mobile Cranes.
The World Class range of Vibratory Compactors that ECE first introduced in the late 80’s is now reputed to
provide the most effective compaction solution to the industry. Also, ECE successfully pioneered the concept
of Backhoe Loader Machine in the late 2009.
(a) Aug-18 to Jan’2021- (Manager, Incoming Quality & NPD)

 Handling a team of 25 team members of incoming quality both at suppliers’ sites and in-house.
 Ensuring daily timely inspection of all NON-DOL parts at suppliers’ end of all commodity category.
 Non-Dol parts inspection as per sampling plan, PPC priority & ERP MRE pending list
 Responsible for parts segregation of problematic parts and timely rejection disposition.
 Responsible for parts MRE clearance in ERP on daily basis.
 Recording and monitoring data of every incoming activity on daily basis.
 Ensuring problem free parts fitment from line assembly to PDI stage.
 CAPA on the rejections by close coordination with SQA team for DOL parts.
 Immediate actions & CAPA for daily assembly line problems, production losses of respective commodity
through ORC analysis for NON-DOL parts.
 Analysis of vendor’s process lacking, field failures and deciding CAPA and coordinating implementation.
 Monitoring corrective & preventive action against routine quality issue, related to supplier.
 CFT member of customer problem solving teams.
 Preparing and circulating various daily & Monthly MIS of incoming quality of all lines with trend charts.
 Complete review and actions finalization of UPL of new model launch with VD team. - (NPD)
 Technical sign off with suppliers for new part development after design review with design team-(NPD)
 Validation of new developing parts (inspection, testing & trial) – (NPD)
 Tooling and process discussion, finalization and validation with suppliers- (NPD)
 Ensuring timely availability of tooling, gauges & fixtures for new parts at suppliers’ end. - (NPD)
 PPAP approval of parts; conversions of new parts into DOL within 45 days to 90 days- (NPD)
 Set quality standards of CTQ against new development- (NPD)
(b)Aug-15 to July 18- (Q.A. Manager-Fab Shop, Paint Shop & Calibration)
 Accountable for parts development in In-house fabrication shop of PnC, HPnC & BHL lines which include
design review, PPAP submission, quality plans, occurrence & release.
 Preparing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of fabricated items of in-house Fabrication shop.
 Performing Process/Product audits at in-house Fabrication to enhance efficiency of operations.
 Accountable for Corrective and Preventive action taken for fit and function issues at Assembly lines
 Preparation & monitoring of various daily & monthly MIS of fabrication shop & paint shop.
 Performing Weld Penetration test for Sample.
  Monitoring stress relieving operation of various fabricated structural parts.
 Preparation and monitoring of welding sequence to avoid distortion.
 Controlling, monitoring Non-destructive Testing (NDT)/welding quality of structural parts of PnC & HPnC.
 Root causes analysis of problems from assembly line with CAPA at in-house & suppliers’ end both.
 Validation of developing parts which includes inspection, metallurgical & functional testing.
 Handling issues during the development and to control, improve supplier process to achieve the product’s
special characteristics by the introduction of Poke-yoke, fixtures, gauges, tooling modification etc.
 Ensuring execution of product layout inspection plan of heavy structural parts on CMM as per plan.
 CFT Member for implementation & regularization of Engineering Change Approvals (ECA).
 Calibration-validation of instruments, maintaining and monitoring of master list of instruments / fixtures.
 Ensuring paint quality of parts as per quality parameters through inspection and audits.
 Accountable for new paint trials in terms of quality parameters.
(c)April’ 05 to July-15 (Assistant Manager in Supplier QA)
 Technical sign off with suppliers for new part development in heavy fabrication and other commodities.
 Tooling and process discussion, finalization and validation with suppliers.
 Validation of new developing parts (inspection, testing & trial).
 Ensuring timely availability of tooling, gauges & fixtures for new developed parts at supplier end.
 To coordinate with supplier and proto assembly throughout the course of development.
 PPAP review & approval of parts.
 Alternate sourcing and capacity enhancement.
 Supplier up gradation through implementation of lean concepts and other techniques at supplier site.
 Preparation of quality plans, procedures, WI & QIS including time to time required modification.
 Controlling and monitoring activities to ensure adherence to laid down manufacturing processes to
minimize line rejections, rework and process variation
 Supplier audit based on PPM; analysis of defects & appropriate action based on root cause analysis.
 Daily & monthly MIS circulation. Supplier PPM monitoring for vendor rating purpose.
 Supplier’s System Audit & Process audit to improve quality of the product.
 Handling issues during line assly/trials, line issues trouble shooting, working on reducing line rejection.
 Customer complaints solving and warranty cost reduction.
 Direct on line “DOL” implementation of various parts.
 Part Reliability-process audit, vendor issues solving, and welding quality improvements.
 Involved in primer and paint quality improvement projects at vendor end.
 CFT member of ECE for different projects.
Sanden Vikas (Ind) Ltd, Faridabad (Jul’02 to Apr’2005 as J.E.)
 To study the process behavior, its control & continuous improvement of the process through various
techniques and maintaining records for the same.
 Responsible for the in-process inspection of assembly of hose and pipes & cooling unit section.
 In process inspection for the process going on the shop floor on different machines such as CNC
Bending, Ultrasonic cleaning, pipe forming, leak checking, etc.
 Ensuring that all work is carried out on the shop floor as per standard procedures.
 Responsible for Pre-Dispatch Inspection of AC Kit parts e.g., cooling unit assy., hose & pipes. Analyzing
the probable reasons for rejections and eliminating the same reasons to reduce the rejection.

ACHIEVEMENTS
 Reduced testing defects by process & product improvement-ECEL & IFEL.
 Certified ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor-ECEL.
 Reduced line loss hour by taking corrective and preventive actions at suppliers-ECEL.
 Successfully completed the project of PARIVARTAN –supplier cluster for up gradation. -ECEL.
 Bought components Direct on Line (D.O.L.) having good Quality-ECEL.
 Improved the quality and productivity of machining and fabricated components-ECEL & IFEL.
 Won many Kaizens awards for implementing various improvements on time to time-ECEL.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2002: Done 3 yrs. Regular Diploma in Mechanical Engg. from Govt. Polytechnic Nilokheri with 62% marks.
2012: Done MBA in Prod. & Operation Mgmt. through distance learning from MDU Rohtak with 64% marks.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: 10-08-1979
Father Name: SH. Chand Ram Sharma
Permanent Address: H. No. 1676, Sec-9, Urban Estate, Karnal-132001 (Haryana)
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