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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

• Capacity supply chain analysis and monitoring through short capacity audit and survey (self-assessment and onsite audits) to secure current demand and volume increases.
• Investment and R@R follow up and reviews onsite to ensure the improvement and profit of the investment.
• Standardized Volvo supplier capacity database and supplier capacity process.
• Generate and follow up of action plans to mitigate suppliers’ capacity constraints.
• Focus on supplier development to secure quality, capacity, and reduce delivery impacts to the Volvo plants.
• Developing suppliers and enhancing communication to meet quality requirements and secure VTNA demand.

Querétaro, Mexico

• Developed, approved, and standardized new paint product process for single parts production.
• Facilitate the masking process by implementing virtual visual aids to ensure engineering requirements and quality.
• Led and followed up on internal and external quality audits.
• Tooling/fixtures improvement for making production more efficient in paint and surface treatment processes.
• Manpower training to guarantee quality and stability in painting process.
• Procedure creation and optimization for surface treatment processes to reduce cycle time.

Querétaro

• Ensure that there is close interaction with supplier stakeholders' specifically in Engineering and Operations, and develop and work with the team to ensure a common strategy is driven and communicated.
• Conduct weekly customer/supplier management meetings to show progress in deliveries, maintenance activities, problem-solving, troubleshoot, tooling status, manufacturing new investments, production numbers, KPI's, main.
• Follow up; incident reports, audits, PPMs, scrap, Engr changes, packing changes, raw material improvement changes, or critical tasks important for assembly line in the USA.
• Leader in kaizen events, process audits and containment activities and guidance with continuous improvement tools like:5s, SMED, 8D's, QRQC, PDCA, EWO, HERCA, RNC, etc.
• Perform short Capacity Assessment to suppliers generating risk status to classify them, follow up and apply solutions; metal-mechanical and electrical-electronic commodities.
• Ensure linkage exists between FMEA, PPAP, and Control Plan and updated.

Querétaro Area, Mexico

• Propose, define and implement production industrialization processes for products with minimum costs, within a minimum time frame and with guaranteed quality of final products (time analysis, capacity analysis.
• Develop and deploy APQP manufacturing processes along with the projects team to accomplish customer requirements like cycle time, capacity, manpower, quality, etc.
• Documentation validation of new projects for plastic injection, metalized, and assembly areas (work instructions, quality, packing, SAP information, FMEA, CP, Etc.).
• Purchase coordination of new tools, jigs, and improvements for the production line.
• Preparation of manufacturing documentation (layout, FMEA, CP, diagram flow, 5’s, work instructions,packing instructions) and operators' training.
• Follow up to internal and customer claims (BMW, VW group, Audi).

Querétaro Y Alrededores, México

• Coordinate certification of all transferred processes in paint, trim, drill, and post-cure areas to enable the initiation of production without non-conformance reports.
• Provide manufacturing engineer support to production and quality departments.
• Planning raw materials, personal protective equipment, tools, consumable items, and operator training that will be needed for the phase by phase production transference.
• Analysis and resolution of technical information to improve and optimize processes (eliminating non-value-adding operations).
• Defined and implement manufacturing methods and procedures for each area of the post-cure carbon fiber and aluminum departments.
• Plan and implement new products or changes to the manufacturing process.

Querétaro Y Alrededores, México

• Generate and implement process sheets for metal lathe equipment on production lines.
• Time and recorded data on the lathe machines making all crown and pinion gears by part number.
• Recorded technical information about all tools used on each machine (i.e.: cutting inserts, drill bits, devices and suction accessories).
• Created and implement visual aids of each machine.
• Train operators to properly use the process sheets to their advantage.
• Support for supervisor in study data of implementation of new products. Achievement:- Reduction of 50% time in the process of “thread” with a new cutting tool.

León Y Alrededores, México

• Documentation of a new production line in order to achieve ISO TS 16949.
• Support in execution of 5´s philosophy.
• Implementation of health and safety visual aids in work centres.
• Elaboration of preventive maintenance formats for machinery.
• Ensuring that all products shipped meet all customer dimensional, material and systems specifications.
• Define and implement manufacturing methods.

Ielts

Associate’S Degree

Industrial Engineer