Head - Quality - Real Estate

About the client:

- Company Name: Confidential

- Industries: IT Services & Consulting

- Company Type: Other

- Funding Stage: Other

- Headquarter Location: Chennai

- Nature of Offering: Product & Services

- Founding Year: 2004

- No of Employees: 501-1000

Quality Head:

- As the 'Business Unit Quality Head' the candidate is responsible to leverage his technical expertise towards prioritizing and ensuring Quality Management across all projects.

- He/She will be leading a team of specialists to help define and drive excellence in quality assurance and control processes.

- Responsibility to set up and ensure the adherence to Quality Standards including SOPs, checklists, audit & inspection, training and implementing best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Custodian of Quality Standards and Control Processes to be adhered to for all projects:

- Design, develop and implement quality assurance plan for all projects.

- Formation and evaluation of various QA/QC tools like check list for materials, work quality

- Head the team QA/QC engineers and guide them to develop SOPs/Work procedures, Work Instructions, Project Quality Plan, Checklists, Formats, Inspection Test Plans for various activities and materials

- Develop internal testing mechanism for materials and verification and follow up on noncompliance

Ensure adherence to company standards, customer requirements and SOPs:

- Periodic inspection of sites. Take corrective and preventive actions for quality non-conformance

- Identify process deviations, initiate improvements and proactive reporting to management on critical/ highimpact elements

- Interface with Execution team and Architects, Suppliers and contractors.

- Ensure surveillance and reviews of the quality systems, including those of subcontractors and suppliers

Deploy quality management system requirements across projects:

- Work with the site QA/QC team leads and be able to resolve site quality control issues.

- Work with projects team leads for operational excellence to improve the desired quality keeping cost and delivery time lines in mind

Drive a culture of continuous improvement:

- Proactive approach to improve quality of work at site, minimize rework & demonstrate continuous improvement.

- Enabling teams to do thorough prequalification, performance evaluation of contractors, suppliers w.r.t quality

- Introduction and implementation of new process engineering (PE) and quality management methods

- Quality training programs for Construction Management team (on Process quality, Product quality etc.).

- Develop digitization strategy for Construction Management control and assurance tools

Skills:

- Strong technical skills with a sharp focus on attention to details and quality consciousness.

- Self-motivated and someone who is passionate about quality without compromising on the same. Operational Excellence & Business sensitivity, Critical thinking, and Problem solving, Assertiveness, Commercial awareness.

Qualification:

- Post Graduate in Engineering/ Construction Management/ Architecture from reputed institutes. Quality Assurance & Quality Control experience in Real estate sector is an added advantage.

- Practice and Other Requirements: 20+ years' experience in Real Estate/ Construction/ Hospitality Industry in the Quality Management Function