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Azusa, California, Us

Responsible for plant operational leadership, tactical execution and financial performance for Irvine site manufacturing, engineering and operations planning.Responsible for planning, organize and lead manufacturing activities to assure the improvement of operations performance.Lead the operation to meet key plant indicators as safety, schedule attainment, efficiency, cost and quality; trough the continuous improvement.Integration of new plant acquisitionsAccomplishmentsLead the effort to build an organizational structure to support the Irvine manufacturing teamImprove output by 30% to support continue grow and expand Neurovascular business.Improve lead time for commercial builds for new products launch.Nonconformance reports reduction by 30%, deploying the use of root cause analysis, problem solving tools and A3’s process.Improve first pass yield from 92% to 98%Improve Plant Labor efficiency by 18%Start up 2 nd shift operations for 4 main lines: headcount increase by 50%, reduce Over time and improve output.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for planning, organize and lead manufacturing activities to assure the improvement of focus factories performance.Lead the operation to meet key plant indicators as safety, schedule attainment, efficiency, cost and quality; trough the continuous improvement.Equipment maintenance including molding auxiliary equipment and utilities.Responsible for production, manufacturing engineering, planning and maintenanceResponsible for Tooling, Mold maintenance and repair and tool roomResponsible for Operational Excellence area focus on Lean manufacturing deployment and costreduction program AccomplishmentsReduce Plant OT by 50%.Improve Plant Labor efficiency by 15% achieving over 100%.Improve indirect ratio by 20%Complete Backorder recovery plan to reduce from $340K to $150K.Improve Schedule Attainment from 80% to 95%Lean manufacturing deployment by True North initiative (Lean manufacturing deployment)Process transfer start up plan on track (Lead 4 major line transfer from US to Tijuana in 3 years)

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for all maintenance equipment including molding auxiliary equipment and utilities.Responsible for industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, strategic manufacturing, risk management, project management and documentation (EDS) areas.Responsible for injection Molding, Extrusion, thermoforming and final assembly technology.Responsible for Tooling, Mold maintenance and repair and tool roomResponsible for Capital Management and Transfer Projects

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Support the development and implementation of education and certification programs in support of process improvement initiatives across the corporation, and to seek and adopted industry-wide best practices to drive Enterprise Process Excellence• Support and Mentoring OpEx leaders on OpEx program structure and deployment.• Application of Lean Level Assessment criteria as initial process for Quality Improvement Program focus on quality culture, quality, operations and management systems.• Internal and external benchmarking to identify best practices and next level of process excellence objectives. • Manage skills development program to support process improvement strategy, including curricula for Lean Enterprise, Six Sigma, Project Management, and Facilitation Skills.• Lead and participate in training sessions to drive process improvements as Six Sigma and Lean• Support to Meet KPIs: % Completion of training plan, % of employees trained/certified, ROI on training, Performance to Budget.• Develop and follow up Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing program.• Continuous Process improvement Leader, focused on increase quality, productivity and cost reduction program to archive annual savings by 5% of cost of production year over year.• PPK improvement plan by SPC Implementation on critical process.• Define and coach projects to reduce customer complaints and internal main rejects• Implemented OEE Improvement by TPM and autonomous maintenance.