Manuel Saenz Email & Phone Number

Mexico

Mexico

St Paul, Mn, Us

* Permanent member of the 3M North America lean six sigma cohort team of lean strategy & Tier Management System.* Lead, promote & coordinate the creation of the continuous improvement & six sigma monthly calendar ( DMAIC projects & Kaizen boot camps across the site).* Developer& Permanent member of the Lean six-sigma committee.* Tier Management system creation & its deployment to standardize & facilitate the operations management across different 3m sites..* Extended Value stream Creation & develop future state plan.* Coordinate & lead the annual lean six sigma training program for the new waves of green belts & lean six sigma practitioners.*Annual hopper coordinator to create the hopper to identify len six sigma high saving projects & it's prioritization through C&E matrix.* Share best practices at all levels of the organization ( 3M Execution Model ,Analytical skills, cross functional team leadership, Shingo, Model, 5S, Kata & Gemma).*provide support , coach & training to use the LSS tool kit to Non-manufacturing departments such as Human Resources, Customs, training, EHS etc..*Track,collect & report LSS savings to the corporative & top management leadership teams ( 3 million us dllr annual goal ).* closely work with disruptive technology disruptive technology & maintenance team to validate under lean six sigma standpoint the introduction of the new technology to manufacturing process improvement.

St Paul, Mn, Us

Proficient in Six Sigma & Lean tools and it's application• lead & coordinate the monthly kaizen's calendar preparation aligned with the company goals.• Lead, mentor, coordinate & train kaizen leaders during their continuous improvements activities ( pre-work- kaizen-execution - follow up).• prepare & provide lean six sigma training for the future waves off green belts and lean practitioners.• Closely work with the top management team to get direction & needs of the company and provide update & results of the continuous improvement activity across the plant.• Establish & daily monitor the KPI's indicators to identify new CI opportunities with the leadership team.• Develop, execute & follow up the lean maturity assessment & it's improvement plan in the site.• Provide Coaching & Support to the leaders of kaizen events during planning & execution.• Corporative lean assessment deployment to diagnostic the lean level of the areas on Culture, LMS, Quality, flow and Stability.• Value stream map creation and follow up.• Hopper creation ( Kaizen & DMAIC events).• preparation of the material for workshops events accordingly with the approach decided by lean committee.

St Paul, Mn, Us

As a Subject matter expert ( Manufacturing to Deliver ) • Work closely with the global , Regional , local top management & leaders of all division to prepare the site for the Transition to SAP.• Master Data cleansing (Daily meetings with the global team ).• Creation of the scenarios to reflect and run current process with the new system.• Line designs, production supply areas and hierarchy creation.

St Paul, Mn, Us

As manufacturing Engineer:• Create, establish and improve process to cut , assembly and pack medical drapes.• Equipment validation ( RR,DOE , CPK ) accordingly with the validation procedures.• Equipment introduction ( PV,IQ,OQ,PQ ).• Participate in multiple kaizen and DMAIC projects as a Leader & team member.• Drives lean tools with high energy and passion to establish them in IPD areas to create a lean culture.• Mentors Junior engineers.• Be the engineering in charge to establish a sewing process to launch the patient warming gowns project.• Support production areas during mass production.• leading kaizen events and DMAIC projects in a team environment• Improve cutting areas by the suggestion and introduction of Eastman machine (from the use cutting dies to High tech / Cad cam equipment ) to facilitate engineering changes ( from 3 months to 3 hours ), increase capacity , eliminate Non-ergonomic conditions. "winner of the 2016 Global applied innovation award as best new ergonomics engineering design ".

St Paul, Mn, Us

As a supply chain Engineer :• Create and improve material process flow for all divisions at EDUMEX-3M site ( 5 Buildings ).• Design and deployment of Milk Runs schedule and routes to pull raw material from the main warehouse located at el Paso Texas to all divisions at EDUMEX.• Establish supermarkets and minimarkets for all high runners ( Raw materials ) among all divisions of the site to improve down time metrics caused by lack of these materials and achieve daily production plans. • The use of visual factory concepts to create a common language among all departments involved to get the material flow accordingly with the production rhythm and the replenishment for the supermarkets . those signals were flags , kanban cards , include production supply areas in the shop floor. • Establish and provide supermarket and kanban training in the site. this training included the develop of water spiders in all divisions.• Establish security routes for transportation ( transportation security project ) based on the high violence situation in Juarez during 2007 to 2010.• Drives projects with high energy.• Runs projects in a team environment.• Develops high-potential talent and builds the organization’s capability with GBs• Looks for applicability of tools and methods to areas outside of current focus.

• Implements DMAIC methodology and Lean manufacturing tool kit.• Drives high impact programs to bottom line• Shares best practices• New projects introduction.• time study and line balancing • Facilitates, communicates and teach production personnel in the concepts of lean manufacturing to grow the culture of continuous improvement ( Easy,better , fast & cheap ).• coordinate and lead customer visits to show them in details how the product is produce.• Works closely with other departments to define the efforts and resources to positive impact the company metrics ( safety,Quality, service , cost and engagement ).• Shares best practices• Drives projects with high energy• Facilitates, communicates and teaches.

Taipei City, Taipei City, Tw

• Lead daily conference call with the customer to review in detail status and proper follow up of the New models.• Coordinate with all departments in the site every phase of the new products introduction to establish the conditions for mass production.• Daily staff meeting participant as a representative of the Customer integration solutions team.

As a Production Supervisor mi main activities were:personal management ( 45 workers), canalize and optimize the company resources to achieve daily production plans in a very demanding environment due the quality specs of the customer (Mercedez Benz ) always preserving the safety of our personnel and achieving the company metrics such as quality , Service , productivity and unit cost. As a Manufacturing Engineer my main activities were : Establish sewing process to manufacture seats covers , arm rests and head rest for Mercedes Benz ( leather , vinyl and cloth ) . Time studies , layout creation , BOM's creation and maintenance , engineering changes, new projects introduction,Pilot runs and the creation of Flow charts , SOP’s , Visual Aids, control plan ,PPAP, APQP AND FMEA .

Industrial Engineer, Manufacturing

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