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Responsible for new project development activities since project concept till sign off and safe launch, assuring project milestones and on time deliverables; project planning, budget, pay back rate & RBC, engineering changes, quality, DVP&R, PPAP, APQP, capacity analysis, R@R, stage gate, risk analysis, tooling implementation, audits, prototype runs, project logistic topics readiness, multidisciplinary teams leadership and coordination, reporting to high level management and customer. Decisión taking.

Cuautla Morelos, México

-Management and monitoring customer complaints/parts reject to report and close in time.-8D Report elaboration, monitoring and assurance of preventive, containment and corrective actions implementation as a result of 8D process, assuring no recurrence.-APQP (30 points) & PPAP (18 Points) management and elaboration, assuring deliverable dates on time for customer approval. -Customer specific requirements managemen, assuring rollout achievement.-Changes notification to customer, tracking and samples management (SREA)-Customer score (Q1) monitoring and reporting to management. -Communication & attention to Customer STA/SQE, looking for customer satisfaction, keeping health and good collaboration (thruogh phone calls, e mails, customer portals).-Attention to customer visits to the manufacturing plant.-Team coordination for customer visits to manufacturing site (for R@R, assesments, audits, changes, evaluations).- Collaboration with program managers and Business units for projects

Morelos, Méx.

• Time measurement and capacity analysis of manufacturing processes in Frontend and Backend lines like SMD, to advise focus factories about installed capacity risks (Installed capacity against customer´s volumes). Participation in line expansion for capacity increase.• Collection, analysis and maintenance of capacity data in SAP system.• SAP data analysis and product costing calculation. Detection of deviations and recommend actions for improvement.• Plant Capacity Planner certified by customer. Data maintenance in customer´s capacity portals.• Deal with engineering STA & SQE.• Elaboration of capacity analysis reports to respond “What if” analysis and volume variances from customers and conferences for monitoring.• Capacity reports for plant management team.• Time and movement studies, workloads, line balancing, ergonomics, standard work. • Definition of production capacities based on OEE and share loading plan analysis.• Creation and maintenance of master data in SAP Production Planning module.• Collection of updated production data (machine & labor) for Budget and implementation in SAP.• Participation in continuous improvement projects (productivity increase, line layout and others).• Interaction with different cultures and areas: Operations, controlling, planning, quality, logistics.• Project leader for “New raw material label plant readiness”, achieving that programs, software and hardware from warehouse to production floor get ready to process the new label, as well as implementing new programs and procedures for label inspection.

Morelos, Mex.

• Leader of 6 Sigma Project: “Reduction of spare parts (MRO) spending level”. Achieving important savings that impacted on plant indicators (costs), exceeding the original target from 5% to 50%.• Participation in lean projects to increase productivity in lines and reduction of semi finished product inventory level in production floor.• Presentation of projects results to senior management levels (internal and corporate).• Implementation of “kaizen” improvements in cost saving and reporting time optimization.