David Melchor Email & Phone Number

United States

Shelton, Connecticut, Us

Addison, Texas, Us

Glendale, Wisconsin, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Plant Manager

Novi, Michigan, Us

• Implementation of Fast Response to address timing and feedback to customers in a timely fashion and full analysis of root cause and corrective action plans for Customer Complaints and Warranty Returns• ISO TS 16949 representative for the Lexington Quality System including to update the system and elimination of non-value added procedures/formats to enhance its effectiveness• Improve Quality System to lead us into a prevention mode rather than a reaction one• Communization and standardization of our Quality system by placing all Quality areas under a single umbrella which consisted of the Incoming/Receiving inspection, Metrology, Quality Systems, Quality Engineers, APQP Engineers, Calibration and ISO 14001 environmental rep• Metrics and indicators management for Quality Deliverables such as Customer complaints, PPM’s internal/external, Customer Scorecards• PPAP Management for all product lines which included the standardization of a common process to effectively manage all involved multifunctional areas• Control cost expenses in quality department by managing yearly budget• Incoming and Supplier Quality management to ensure suppliers adhere to Stoneridge Supplier Quality requirements, CAR Management, Metrology

Novi, Michigan, Us

Gillingham, United Kingdom, Gb

Delphi Quality Engineering Manager for with P&L responsibility for 600,000sqft catalytic converter manufacturing facility with 337 union employees, 59 salaried employees, and $450M annual revenue. Challenged with turning over 95% of union workforce within eight months, while maintaining quality, health & safety, and improving profitability of manufacturing operations.• Reloaded 95% of union employees within 7 months, while maintaining a 3.7 ppm quality level to multiple Tier1 and OEM customers in 2006.• Supporting a total of 25 OEM and 17 Service Manufacturing Cells with on cell support for Quality control and Quality Assurance tools• Improved plant operating income forecast versus budget by $14.0M for 2006 with execution of reload plan and continuous improvement initiatives, such as indirect employee work balancing.• Improvement of Internal fall out FTQ ppm from 105,000 to 42,000 implementing priority to Top Focus processes and Continuous Improvement activities• Maintaining ISO-TS 16949 Certificate with no Major nonconformance during the various external registrar assessments• Managing a $2.3M quality engineering department budget• Temp QA Manager for Katcon (Delphi joint venture) for transition, ramp-up and stabilizing the Quality Systems as part of the Delphi Milwaukee-Katcon reorganization for the two Facilities located in Monterrey Mexico Successfully transferred/launched 42 manufacturing cells in Katcon (Starting May 2006-July 2008).

Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mx

Master'S Degree, Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Industrial Engineering