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Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, Us

Personal Safety Systems

Woking, Surrey, Gb

- Management of Chassis Suppliers Quality Area – 65 suppliers within chassis, body structures and carbon commodities, leading a team of 6 Engineers supporting production of 4800 cars/year.- Development of suppliers and parts maturation readiness for the launching of McLaren 570 Spider, 720, 720 Spider, McLaren Senna, Speedtail and 650R.- Management of supplier Quality and service and Supply Chain risk assessment- Leading team of 6 SQA engineers managing over 65 suppliers.- Critical Supplier Development Program - Agree development programs with supplier executives to achieve McLaren quality and build rate. Define improvement plan and follow-up execution with weekly reports.- Supply Chain Model for sourcing strategy and nomination.- Supplier Audit activities.- APQP and Readiness management for new developments.- Supplier Capacity and Run@Rate analysis.- PPAP approval.- 8D Quality Issues resolution.- Technical review and Design for Manufacturing Analysis.Main Products: carbon, forging and casting wheels; hinges, uprights, suspension parts, dampers, aluminium and carbon chassis structures, carbon panels and wings, brake discs (carbon and carbon ceramic), calipers, actuators, steering systems

St Paul, Mn, Us

- Manufacturing Leadership of automotive division with 130 hourly and 18 monthly employees.- Management of P&L and Process KPI's (Cost and Finance, Service, Quality, Inventory, Factory OEE and Safety) with report to local and international division executives.- Strategic manufacturing plan aligned with the guidelines of the international division to support the business demands.- Manage the introduction and implementation of Lean Manufacturing Concepts.- Definition of 5 years plan for cost and Capital Investment.- Revision of manufacturing operations Value Stream Map generating LEAN-SIX SIGMA improvement projects, achieving reduction of costs of more 4.7% sales/year:- Management of Quality and Service indicators of 18 Automotive Key Accounts - Improvement from 75% to 92% in green status applying advanced quality techniques for Problem resolution. - Reduction of automotive PPM by 20% between 2014 and 2016.- Project Implementation Management according to the APQP methodology- Deployment of specific requirements of clients – GMP, MMOG, QSB, VDA and ISO/TS-16949.see less- Creation and structuring of the Outsourcing Manufacturing area according to the "Make or Buy" principles and the SOX law – Sales of R$170M/year, Gross Profit of 52% for Contract Manufacturing model and R$80M/Year, Gross Margin of 45% in the Private Label model. - Development and implementation of quality management strategy for the outsourced products supply chain from China/Asia, achieving Customer Total Quality and elimination of non-quality and reimbursement at operation cost of less than US$0.01 per unit.- Creation and organization of the Supplier Development area. (Project Quality at the Source - 3M International Quality Award in 2011). 35% increase in efficiency of the department by changing the receive inspection model to Quality at the Source and improvement of the PPM indicator of suppliers by 70% in 3 years.

Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, De

- Start-up of a new plant designed to provide metallic seat structures for the Volkswagen FOX export program, with more than 170 employees and net sales above R$100M/year with investments of R$8M: Automatic welding line (13 FANUC robots), assembly (torque) and KTL painting.- Responsible of target and result administration of all plant sectors, including Production, Process, Quality, Logistics, PCP, Maintenance, Purchasing, Account and Human Resources.- Coordination of personal hiring plan, salary policy and union agreements.- Management of Lean Manufacturing Program.- Contract requirements negotiation with suppliers.- Business Plan Management.- Production control and planning.- Plant certification on ISO TS 16949 requirements.- Introduction of the quality system requirements to comply with the VDA 6.3 standard, audited by the customer, reaching the 86B result (minimum required 82B) after one month of production in progress.- Inventory stock policy definition.- Introduction of the quality system requirements to attend the VDA 6.3 norm, audited by the customer, achieving result 86B (minimum required 82B) after one month of production running.- - Metal scrap reduction from 1.5 to 0.4% after two months of production in progress, representing annual savings of around R$660K- Robot cells downtime reduction of 80% using a TPM program for robots and welding fixtures.- 3D Measurement and metallography laboratory management.

São Bernardo Do Campo, São Paulo, Br

- Management of supplier parts qualification (VDA) for the launch of VW Fox, Polo, Golf, and Audi. Reduction of 3 months in the VW Fox launch period with this process and control of parts engineering version for the pre-series cars.- Top Management Red Quality and Timeline Risk Review preparation.- Supplier Development – Quality and Supply Chain (JIT/JIS).- Management of parts quality approval status and member of functional meetings to discuss product changes, project timing and reported quality problems.- Supplier top cost and top severity complaints ranking preparation.- Organizations of workshop to present to all suppliers the samples and parts delivery procedures to attend pre-series vehicles. - Follow of process and tooling development made by European suppliers in order to provide parts for the new Volkswagen Polo, Golf A4 and Gol new power engine generation.Key knowledge: Seats, Internal and External Trimming, Dashboard, Door Panels, External Mirrors, Lightning, Painted Parts, Electrical and Metallic Parts.- Global sourcing decisions and low performance sources rejection.- Control of suppliers tooling development timing plan.- Responsible for plastic and metal parts tooling tryouts.- Simultaneous engineering team leader, responsible for localization and cost reduction on trimming, electrical and safety parts.- Supplier audit and process assessment.- Participation in the process of global sourcing to define suppliers by commercial condition, technical capability and quality criteria.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

- Startup of the fuel injectors manufacturing line - Investment of US$10M with building, utilities, clean room, automatic assembly line, calibration and leak test.- Laser welding and etch specialist- Technical support on fuel injectors valves for GM calibration engine department.- Responsible for the fuel injectors valves calibration machines and the perfect accuracy and correlation of the flow meters.- Installation of data collection system and implementation of automotive batteries unit productive and preventative maintenance.- Preparation of Operational Procedures and Production Part Approval Process - PPAP.