Omar Castro Email & Phone Number

Tijuana, Baja California, México

Tijuana Y Alrededores, México

Tijuana Y Alrededores, México

Ensenada Area, Mexico

Tijuana Area, Mexico

* AFG Responsible to implement PLM worldwide

Tijuana Area, Mexico

* Responsible to coordinate activities with support teams to meet company goals and objectives for Change Management.* Leading a project to integrate Production lines and production stations in to change management.* Liaison between autoliv corporate design authorities and Tijuana Manufacturing plant.* Work with Project teams to integrate change management activities into overall project plan.* Conduct readiness assessments to evaluate results and present findings in a logical and easy to understand manner.* Apply a structured Change management approach and methodology for engineering changes.* Working very closely with Materials Team to set SOP avoiding obsolescence.* Responsible to maintain BOM´s database accurate to provide accurate visibility to material buyers.* Responsible to get all proper documentation to keep PPAP records accurate.* Coordinate activities to get Change Control Board involved for Engineering Changes presented by corporate PTL in order to identify potential cost and risks for the operation.* Liaison between VEVA coordinator and manufacturing team to comply corporate goals.ACCOMPLISHMENTS* Introduced successfully on time, an Autoliv Corporate Initiative to standardize change management all around company in Tijuana Plant complying with management goals.* Developed a change management strategy based on a situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups being impacted by the change* Improvement of Engineering change tracker to eliminate duplicate activities already been followed by Production Team in a daily basis.* Reduced RAW material obsolescence from 25 days to one day.* Improvement in 90% PPAP late submission due to late documentation delivered on time.* Improvement BOM accuracy in 95% , eliminating material discrepancies due to BOM accuracy.

Tijuana

* Managing projects from conception, pre -production through to completion.* Responsible to coordinate engineering changes for all customers ( GM, HONDA, KIA, FORD ) from pre-launch until 3 months after launch.* Being the liaison with Design Engineering, Business units, machine Build, manufacturing and customers.* Preparing project Initiation documentation.* Responsible for the completion of all documentation related with the project. PFMEA, Control Plans, SWI,DFMEA, DRW, R@R for PPAP Purposes.* Leading a team of one Quality engineer, one Production supervisor, and a QA auditor.* Responsible to coordinate activities with production, engineering, QA, scheduling, and materials to meet R@R.* Liaising with customers on a regular basis to ensure the successful design and manufacture of products.* Providing Technical support to the global and local project team.* Evaluating equipment supplier tenders and providing recommendations.* Responsible to coordinate line trials with samples from different suppliers.* Evaluating performance of engineering samples from different suppliers.* Supplier process evaluation and tracking activities to solve disagreements related to the design.* Overseeing the maintenance of projects after completion.* Managed a project budget of $1.5 million dlls.ACCOMPLISHMENTS* Successfully launched on time 9 major GM programs, GMT166, GMT168, GMX384, GMX386, GM E-FEX ( GM VOLT, GM AMPERA ), GM DELTA ( CRUZE and VERANO ), GM GAMMA ( SONIC ).* Keep budget for new programs in control.* Delivered 100% BOM accurate to mass production.

Tijuana Area, Mexico

* Member of a Global team to develop and test PLM Prior to be launched all around Autoliv Facilities in the world, one week trained in Hamburg Germany.* Responsible to mantain MRP system.* Responsible to track implementation cost for each engineering change in order to reduce the major contributor of obsolescence.ACCOMPLISHMENTS*Seamless PDM system migration from MATRIX to PLM.* Developed the first Engineering tracker used in Autoliv Tijuana Plant.* Successfully trained all Autoliv Tijuana Plant in the usage of PLM.

Tijuana Area, Mexico

* Supporting Change management process from release through validation and implementation.* Manage the release of design through Autoliv Design Process* Responsible to perform Line trials and Prototype sample orders.* Support QA team in customer complaints.* Responsible to create and deliver PSO´s to manufacturing team.ACOMPLISHMENTS* Improvment in 95% PSO database, delivering accurate information to manufacturing team.* Susceccfully developed and implementated Prototype sample schedule procedure, eliminating material descrepancies due to sample Builds managed out of MRP system.

Tijuana Area, Mexico

* Responsible to design equipments that meets R@R.* Leading a team of one Quality Engineer, one Production supervisor and a QA auditor with 5 production associates.* Responsible to follow and implement APDS in Tijuana facility.* Responsible to meet all design, quality, production, financial and milestone timing needs for new Programs.ACCOMPLISHMENTS* Successfully launched 2001 MY Toyota NUMMI / TACOMA* Successfully launched on time 8 major GM programs, GMX367, GMX365, GMT245, GMT265, GMT191 , GMT192, GMX380, GMX381.*

Tijuana Area, Mexico

* Responsible to train personnel and performed weekly evaluations and certifications.* Develop training year schedule for all personnel.Identify new opportunity areas in all departments for training.* Responsible to develop development plans for each position in the company.ACCOMPLISHMENTS* Reduction in 50% the delays in operator certification.* Improvement the certification system with new tasks.

Tijuana Area, Mexico

* Responsible of introduction of new programs* Work instructions Development.* Responsible to coordinate Engineering Samples.* Responsible to design new production lines.* Responsible to improve solder wave process.ACCOMPLISHMENTS* 50% improvement in wave solder process.* New projects delivered on time.

Aguascalientes Area, Mexico

* Responsible for developing new suppliers* Responsible to audit suppliers production process.* Acquisition of RAW material.* Responsible to keep spare parts available for production equipments.* Responsible to negotiate cost reduction with suppliersACCOMPLISHMENTS* Reduced in 4% piece price in one of the high volume component.* Increase in 10% supplier delivery on time

Aguascalientes Area, Mexico

* Responsible to keep accidents data updated.* Responsible to create trainings to material handlers to avoid injuries.* Responsible to manage hazardous and inflammable material.ACCOMPLISHMENTS* 0 injuries goal achieved in 6 months