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San Antonio, Texas, Us

Attendorn, North Rhine Westphalia, De

Business Unit: Coil Springs & Coil Spring WireLead and manage a Quality operations team of 10 team members, ensuring operational excellence and high-quality results.Ensure all systems and procedures satisfy internal and external requirements/regulations - leading internal and external compliance audits (i.e. IATF 16949 and VDA audits).Responsible for Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for the Quality Assurance department - reporting monthly to all levels throughout the organization.Collaborate with cross-functional team to perform annual risk assessment for internal processes - implementing preventive actions to lower occurrence and raise detection to improve overall Quality performance.Collaborate with key internal/external stakeholders to identify the impacts of market and Engineering/Design changes - recommending solutions without compromising product quality or, overall, service.

Attendorn, North Rhine Westphalia, De

Business Unit: Coil SpringsNote: Temp Assignment to Support COVID-19 Recovery/Restructuring EffortsResponsible for preparing Master Production Schedule (MPS) to provide a 4-week production forecast - based customer 830/862 requirements for +800 active products and +1200 service products.Responsible to monitor daily production cycles using the MPS to ensure on-time customer delivery - consistently achieving 97%, or greater, and meeting aggressive Multistage Inventory Planning and Optimization (MIPO) targets.Analyzed and communicated forecasted demand and Management Information Systems (MIS) reporting throughout all levels of the organization.Collaborated with the Plant Operations team to define required staffing levels for, both, direct and indirect team members - allowing for our groups to flex labor to mitigate supply chain shortages.Managed raw material allocations, including customer furnished material - reporting/escalating shortages that affect 830/862 customer requirements.

Attendorn, North Rhine Westphalia, De

Business Unit: Coil Springs, Coil Spring Wire, & Stabilizer BarsLed and managed a Quality operations team of 9 team members, ensuring operational excellence and high-quality results.Motivated, coached, and developed Quality Operations team to meet individual goals to deliver added value to the operation through Continuous Improvement.Ensured all systems and procedures satisfy internal and external requirements/regulations - leading internal and external compliance audits (i.e. IATF 16949 and VDA audits).Responsible for Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for the Quality Assurance department - reporting monthly to all levels throughout the organization.Responsible for preparing annual Quality Operations budgets, and capital expenditure proposals.North American representative on an internal Global Quality Council and contributed to the creation/implementation of Global Best Practices.

Attendorn, North Rhine Westphalia, De

Business Unit: Coil SpringsPlanned and coordinated Quality Improvement activities in relation to industrial processes, materials, and product by continually assessing all processes and recommending improvements.Applied Statistical Process Control (SPC) to evaluate current production process outputs - evaluating the impact of approved updates/changes to the production process.Developed and initiated standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation.Communicated significant issues, or developments, identified during product/process launches - mitigating all issues in compliance with company policy.Maintained a working knowledge of government and industry quality codes/standards/regulations; both, in North America (IATF 16949) and Europe (VDA).Implemented strategies and procedures to ensure compliance with all government and industry qualitystandards and regulations.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration And Management, General

Associate Of Applied Science - Aas, Mechancial & Manufacturing Engineering Technology