OBJECTIVE
A CHALLENGING MANAGEMENT POSITION WHERE I CAN UTILIZE MY EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE TO ASSIST IN THE PROFITABLE GROWTH OF MY COMPANY
QUALIFICATIONS
• Product and Quality Assurance Manager
• Production Manager
• Quoting Manager
• Project Manager
• More than 10 years experience in management positions responsible for:
- Development and Certification of Quality Systems
- Design and Development of Quality process
- Process Design Review and New Product Introduction
- Product Reliability Testing
- Automotive Core Tools Applications
- Statistical Process Controls
- Lean Manufacturing
- Supplier Selection and Evaluation
- Staff Training and Development
• Strong Organizational and Leadership with extensive experience working with Customers’ complaints, managing solutions across Engineering, Logistics and Quality areas
• Demonstrated ability managing multi – disciplinary team to achieve production schedule programs, continuous improvement initiatives, quoting new product and cost reduction programs.
• Proven leadership in securing and maintaining certification programs for TS16949 and ISO9001
CAREER HISTORY
PKC Group North America (Wire Harness Manufacturer) December, 2006 – Present
• Product and Quality Assurance Manager
• Provide technical direction and leadership to Quality Engineering team to successfully implement a Quality validation process to assure robust processes that drive the right quality at the right time and rate
• Coordinate with multi-functional teams initiatives to reduce process variation and minimize waste
• Quality Management system representative for existing Quality Management System based on TS16949:2009 and IS0:9001:2008
• Main contact for potential new customer audits and responsible to follow up with them on findings
• External Quality System audit coordinator and responsible to follow up with third party registrar on findings
• Main contact for incoming customer complaints; assigned resources to assure corrective actions are implemented in a timely manner and are effective
• Responsible for overall Quality System processes such as incoming inspection, PPAP submissions, calibration, document control, process validation, control of non-conformance material, scrap reporting, internal and external corrective actions, material review board area, material return evaluation, cost of quality and management review coordination
• Responsible to evaluate quality of the product during different stages of the assembly process and put in place actions to improve Quality of the product utilizing techniques such as poka yokes devices and quality Assurance instead of quality control
• Managed the follow up process on quality problems related with material supplied by our vendors
• Primary responsibility to implement, certify and maintain ISO14001:2004
Goals Achieved
• External PPM’s were reduced from 900 to 60 PPM’s
• Internal PPM’s were reduced from 27,000 to 1,200
• Process PPM’s were reduced from over 100,000 to less than 5,000
• Final inspection area personnel were reduced by 50% with an annual saving of around $300,000.
• Successfully sustained our Quality Management System certifications.
• Quality System and process audited by Volvo rated us as “Preferable Supplier” and resulted in new business awards for PKC Group
• Environmental Management System implementation and maintenance
Production Manager (accepted interim assignment from May, 2008 to April, 2009)
• Managed production team in order to meet customer demand and optimize resources.
• Development and execution of production plan in order to meet customer demand for both automotive and non automotive customers
• High volume high mix environment for seasonal product running two shifts and over 1200 employee’s as direct labor plus 8 supervisors.
• Prepared PPAP’s and assisted engineering with prototypes
Goals Achieved
• Changed production “culture” and incorporated quality into the process and product
• Implemented a daily checking system across departments which eventually eliminated all air freight requirements and customer back orders
Quoting Department Manager (accepted added responsibility from June 2009 to June 2010)
• Managed Quoting department of 5 engineers, providing technical support to team by clarifying drawings, bills of labor, customer specific requirements and special contractual agreements.
Project Manager for Volvo 3P Battery and Power cables (accepted added responsibility from April 2010 to present
• Responsible to put together along with customer an strategic plan to launch new business using as reference the APQP (Advance Product Quality Planning) and covering phases from new business development and ending with SOP (Start of production)
• Responsible to clarify with customer any constraint that potentially could affect the APQP plan including commercial and logistic issues.
Goals Achieved
• Created / Installed operational features resulting in a reduction of quote turnaround time by 30%
• Re-designed departmental process flows to ensure individual expertise on each quote package
Andrew Wireless Products (Coaxial cable and Earth station antennas) March, 2002 - December, 2006
• Quality Assurance Manager for the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico facility
• Served as main liaison to Corporate Headquarters for Quality System management
• Management System representative for six business units; coordinated management review meetings for the Quality Management System and provided technical support to various Headquarters departments for Quality System issues
• Internal and external audit coordinator for the existing quality and environmental systems (ISO 9000:2000, 14000:2001 & QS9000:1998) as well as customer audits, including YAZAKI, Motorola, Lucent and Visteon
• Visited customers’ locations to solve quality problems and meet expectations
• Managed PPAP package submission to all automotive customers
• Prepared, analyzed and made recommendations on Quality System metric data (PPM’s, scrap, customer returns, customer and vendor complaints, training effectiveness), initiated PDCA process (plan-do-check-adjust) where necessary
• Reviewed process control plans with periodic audits, reporting results to business units
• Developed and...
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