John Rea Email & Phone Number

Derby, United Kingdom

In my current role as Project Engineer within the Quality Assurance division I play a key role in the development and launch of a new vehicle working with multi disciplined group of stakeholders within the Toyota organisation (Design Engineers, Process Engineers, Purchasing, Project Management) and work with suppliers in developing their part and process quality. My responsible area is Interior cabin.-Design study stage As a QA Project Engineer I support the validation of the vehicle design. I worked with a multi disciplined global Engineering team in studying the vehicle and part structure using CATIA, technical drawings, tolerance stack up confirmation. By liaising with Design and Process Engineers as well as Suppliers, I support design for maufacturability, solving problems before tooling kick off (avoiding costly tooling changes later) and assure the best cost, quality, reliability, safety, time-to-market, and customer satisfaction.-Tooling kick off & prototype confirmationI approve all supplier QC documents (parts inspection standards, checking fixture design, process quality charts). Visits are made to each supplier to view part and process development and audit supplier quality controls (poke-yoke, operator instructions, checking fixtures).The 1st prototype vehicles are built in Japan, I spent 1 month in Japan confirming the fitting and finish of all parts under my responsibility to find supplier Quality and Design concerns and taking action to find a countermeasure for each concern.-Trials and launch in manufacturing plantAfter the vehicle as come to plant I confirm that all countermeasures from prototype stage are implemented and confirm any final Quality concerns raised from the final off process condition. I approve all the regulatory quality documents for manufacturing (both in-house and at supplier) within my responsible area are correct and I audit (e.g airbag labels, safety critical tightening torques).

County Cork, Ireland

While studying at University of Limerick, I spent 7 Months as an intern with Boston Scientific. I was part of the Business Process Improvement (BPI) team, which carried out Industrial Engineering activities. My role involved applying lean manufacturing techniques to improve productivity of production lines.such as time and motion studies, line balancing, space optimisation.I was given the responsibility of keeping the factory plans up to date. I did this bymeasuring the dimensions of every object added, removed or rearranged on thefactory floor and updating the drawing on AutoCAD. These plans were required forspace planning.Was involved in timings for engineering standards. The standard times are a measureof the total time it takes for a single unit to travel the full length of the production line.These times are used for planning ahead on how many units can be manufactured forfuture build plans and for pricing the products.

Listowel, Co.Kerry, Ireland

(During summer while studying for my degree )I was a machine operator working on a three cycle shiftFrom this job I learned a lot about production lines, quality controls and working in anindustrial environment.

Listowel, Co.Kerry, Ireland

(also from June 2005 too September 2005)I was a labourer involved in the construction of a housing estateFrom this job I learned much about the construction industry. My main tasks wereputting up scaffolding, laying floors, insulating houses and pipe laying.