Gagandeep Bangar
Kitchener,ON
Summary
ASQ Certified Six Sigma green Belt practitioner with 4 years of robust experience in quality control and assurance. Expert in conducting process audits, managing quality databases, and performing advanced testing to enhance product reliability. Passionate about leveraging cross-functional collaboration and innovative methodologies to elevate production quality and reduce material wastage.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Quality Technician
ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks
Woodstock, ON
08.2021 - Current
- Conduct regular inspections to ensure compliance with standards, improving overall quality
- Perform process audits and maintain standard work instruction records, meeting regulatory requirements
- Monitor robotic welding output, assessing quality for optimal production results
- Perform and document annual PPAP packages for 3+ products
- Support and lead 6 new launches and PPAP documentation, meeting APQP requirements for customer submissions
- Perform MSA on 3+ fixture check tables, measuring instruments, and AI analysis software
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with standards, fostering continuous improvement
- Lead improvement initiatives for validation tags, reducing the non-conformance rate by 15% monthly at the dock audit station
- Enhanced workflow, safety, and customer compliance by optimizing over 10 standard work instructions in alignment with control plans.
- Introduce advanced testing methodologies, improving quality assessments and reducing material wastage by 10%
- Active member of the SMED team, reducing changeover time by 75%
- Identified and resolved hazardous conditions resulting in the elimination of 25+ Spot the Hazards for year 2023 while ensuring adherence to PPE requirements plant-wide.
Quality Inspector
True-Deal Employment
Barrie, ON
01.2021 - 04.2021
- Conducted inspections on assembly line to identify deformities, recorded data in detailed reports, and provided shift updates.
- Utilize gauges for precise measurements, rework defects to maintain high standards.
- Conduct thorough inspections, identify and correct over 200 defects monthly, improving product quality.
- Adhere to all safety guidelines and protocols, ensuring a safe working environment.
- Verified incoming material was properly labeled, identified and stored according to specified requirements.
Quality Inspector
Job Cart Inc.
Kitchener, ON
05.2020 - 08.2020
- Conduct and report inspection status of welded engine cradle and keep Inspection records
- Initiate NCRs for Non-Conforming and Rework parts and actively take part in the follow up and resolution
- Documents inspection results by completing reports and logs; summarizing re-work and waste; inputting data into quality database
- Maintain inspection record per part, assembly
- Assist in creating work guidelines for rework (quality control) work orders with Shift supervisor.
Education
Quality Engineering Management -
Lambton College
Toronto, ON04.2021
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University
Jalandhar, India06.2016
Skills
- Quality Assurance
- Six Sigma
- PPAP
- MSA
- Lean Manufacturing
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- New Product Launches
- APQP
- Lab Testing
- Advanced Testing
- NCR
- Continuous Improvement
- Problem Solving
- Risk Management
- Kaizen Events
- Root Cause Analysis
- Quality Improvement
- Validation
- Process Optimization
- Safety Compliance
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- Quality Auditing
Certification
- Six Sigma Green Belt, ASQ, 02/2024
- Certified Training Course on Solid Works and GD&T, 02/2018 - 04/2018
- Certified Training of C.N.C. Programming, 01/2016 - 04/2016
- Certified Software Training in AUTO-CAD, 03/2016 - 05/2016
Volunteer Work
Red Cross, Jalandhar, India, 04/2015
Awards
Bagged Second position in Automobile-Project display competition at Inno-tech 2016 Pushpa Gujral Science City, Kapurthala, PB, India
Timeline
Quality Technician
ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks
08.2021 - Current
Quality Inspector
True-Deal Employment
01.2021 - 04.2021
Quality Inspector
Job Cart Inc.
05.2020 - 08.2020
Quality Engineering Management -
Lambton College
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University
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