David Hight Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Plano, Texas

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Staff report to Director of Supplier Quality Assurance responsible for leading organization wide projects designed to improve supplier quality processes, further develop departmental employees, and meet or exceed.
• Restructured the root cause and corrective action process for supplier quality to better align it with customer expectations and industry standards.
• Responsible for auditing supplier surveillance and control system to ensure procedural compliance.
• Reviewed all corrective actions related to supplier disclosures, ensured all requirements were met, and had final approval on closure of corrective actions.
• Participated in the development and testing of SAP Quality Management Tools and Enovia Collaboration tools to support the transition of source inspection, auditing, RCCA/CAPA, and other department processes to those.
• Led a comprehensive rewrite of Bell Helicopters Supplier Quality Requirements Manual (SQRM-001) during 2016 culminating in a successful release on 10-Oct-2016.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Managed diverse group of supplier quality professionals responsible for source inspection, supplier audits, inspection planning, supplier risk analysis, and root cause and corrective action. Areas of specialty managed.
• Coordinated with Bell Helicopter Materials and Processes Laboratory to ensure approval of special processors to support Bell product programs, including the creation and publication of audit checklists for special.
• Collaborated with department management on internal quality and government customer reviews to support preparation of data and presentation materials.
• Audited department against internal procedures on a periodic basis to ensure compliance.
• Led development effort of the company’s first Supplier Disclosure reporting tool including training of departmental employees, supplier support, and tool improvements.
• Collaborated on the development of Bell’s Supplier Material Assurance Release Tool (SMART) supporting Bell, third party, and supplier delegated source inspection, auditing, supplier surveillance, shipping documentation.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsible for duties as supplier product assurance representative for Bell Helicopter. Activities included supplier audits, product conformance inspections, First Article Inspection (FAI) review, internal audits.
• Mentored 5 Six Sigma Green Belts through project completion.
• Provided responses to and closed all corrective actions issued by the government customer (CAR, PQDR), regulatory agencies, and our registrar.
• Conducted periodic procedure and records audits in preparation for upcoming customer, regulatory agency, and registrar visits.
• Successfully conducted supplier audits and inspection activities as required to ensure the department was tracking to the yearly supplier surveillance schedule.
• Managed supplier root cause and corrective action for assigned supplier or as assigned by management in special cases.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Collaborated with multidisciplined team, including board assembly, final assembly, and test specialists to minimize product assembly and testing failures. Created test failure rate estimations for products in first.
• Completed Nokia Six Sigma Black Belt Program
• Managed continuous improvement activities after products passed launch phase for assigned products.
• Completed report on surface mount line capacity management for Americas region. Outlined areas of inefficiency in each facility as well as global inefficiencies.
• Accomplished tester maintenance effectiveness study to determine effect of test box maintenance practices on radio frequency measurement performance.
• Completed test step reduction study on products in company’s enterprise solutions portfolio. Produced nine six sigma projects to reduce test time by 12 seconds and manufacturing failure rates by 2.90%.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Provided process engineering service, set-up and troubleshooting for multiple surface mount manufacturing lines. Set up solder paste printing and reflow profile parameters prior to releasing new products for general.
• Worked closely with operations and sourcing teams to develop surface mount compatible packaging for shield components to reduce assembly cycle time and errors resulting from hand placement.
• Oversaw 35 direct reports and their training, performance and written evaluations.
• Authored solder paste stencil specifications and provided process training for American, Mexican and Brazilian manufacturing facilities.
• Traveled to manufacturing facilities in Mexico and Brazil to provide equipment installation, process training, and equipment training.
• Completed evaluation of automated optical inspection equipment used in manufacturing facilities. Provided selection criteria, performance evaluation criteria and return on investment calculation.

Graham, NC

Created instructions, developed electronic assembly processes, and conducted process improvement activities.