Geras Lopcar

I am a passionate person working with the challenges that appears during day to day due that I consider myself as an enthusiastic, honest, and dedicated person on what I am doing. I useto learn through lesson learns that I have gotten with experiences and I am thinking on the improves very often. The commitment is one of my strengths due that I take the responsibility for mi work and decisions and all the time I prioritize my activities regarding the urgencies

Continental Automotive Equipment Project Manager April 2023 - Present

Responsibilities

• Responsible of creation of Technical Specifications for New Equipment /

Production Line purchase and introduction according to project / customer requirements, following the company standards.

• Responsible in the development and evaluation of technology providers as well as supplier managing manufacturing equipment launching to the different Focus

Factory in the company locations with BuyOff attendance @supplier location to validate SPEC vs Equipment.

• Managing Work Team Engineers in order to develop and launch satisfactorily new production lines until Line release & PVB.
• Overall Milestone plan preparation to achieve New Production Equipment / Line introduction and release, providing support and monitors the key indicators of the projects in charge, Supplier Tracking and Equipment Status Monitoring out and in.
• Strategies for the Yearly Investment Budgetary, forecast, PO, AP process & Asset

Capitalization.

• Re-use equipment management to avoid some invest and equipment disposal. We look for intercompany arrangements to transfer equipment we will use or a complete line from one plant to another.

Donaldson Company Inc. Project Engineer(Equipment) March 2017 – April 2023

Responsibilities

• Following up main timeline of projects based on customer milestones.
• Purchasing management for Industrialization.
• Layout of the plan considering Main equipment, Miscellaneous, Facilities,

cleanness room, ergonomic, space optimization, handling material.

• Participate on the PFCH, PFMEA, CP and Floor record documents.
• Equipment Buy Off managing with Run Offs @vendor building and our plant.
• BOM Definition, Routing, Material Consume and PPH.
• Production source management.
• Supplier management.

Minth Mexico Coatings Project Engineer October 2016 – March 2017

Responsibilities

• Following customer timeline and make/modify internal timeline defining each phase for a new business or some engineering change.
• Coordinate each activity of the timeline through CFT meetings.
• Attending to Customers (Daimler, VolksWagen and GM) for revisions of the project status.
• Monitoring the APQP phases for its completion.
• Component/Tooling/Equipment drawings review and approval.
• Customer drawing revision and characteristic specials detection as well.
• Following up with the PFCH, PFMEA, CP and Floor record documents.
• Following up on PV-Test.
• Equipment/Tooling/gauges buy off following up, and budgets control.
• Hiring and training coordination.

SANOH Mexico New Project Engineering August 2014 – October 2016

Responsibilities

• Supervision and following up for planning process in all phases of a new project /

engineering changes.

• Elaboration of PPAP documentation based on the customer requirements

(Honda/Nissan/Mazda).

• Attention to customer on project audits.
• Release of new prelaunch / engineering changes of part numbers ensuring the quality and stability for mass production (CPKs and R&R trials, Match Control plan-Work instruction- Quality and machine checks-Master parts, OEE capacity sheets).
• APQP monitoring meetings.
• Drawings review to verify special characteristics and process review.
• PPHs and process flow review to make FMEA and Control plan.
• Following up of Product Validation test (Dimensional, destructive testing,

Component properties, Corrosion resistance tests, appearance).

• Coordination of the manufacture and delivery of event parts.
• Coordination of training plans.
• Evaluation of Packaging standards for the customer.
• Process Routing verification by Plex.
• Equipment validation.

Knowledge

Minitab: Statistical control and knowledge about six sigma.

AutoCAD: advanced knowledge

Solid Works: Medium knowledge

Excel intermediate, Vision, PowerPoint, Project, One Note, Outlook, Teams, Power

BI, One Drive, Loop and Corel Draw.

PLEX, Oracle, Access Formtek, Webex, SAP

Technical skills

I have been working with different processes. brazing ovens, bending, projection welders, laser welders, leak testers, polishing, pleating & ionized coats, Urethane dispensing machines, powder and liquid painting, seammer, offset printing, assembly process, adhesive dispensing, SMD Technologies (Laser marking, paste printer, pick

& place, Reflow Oven, AOI/AXI).

Design: Geometric dimensions & tolerances, drawing interpretation, PV-Testing/

DVP&R.

Lean Manufacturing: Value Stream Map, KAIZEN, 5’s, 8 D’s, Poka-yoke, Kanban,

Just In Time, Method Pull, TPM, SMED and Standardization.

Lean six sigma: DMAIC, Core tools (APQP, SPC, MSA, AMEF, PPAP, Control

Plan), the 7 quality tools, DOE.

Planning material: MRP, MPS, Forecast Review, inventory management.

Logistic: Icoterms, Packaging standards, Impor-Expor procedures.

Communication & Negotiation, Emotional intelligence, Finance of business, Time management.

Industrial engineer at Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes (2009-2014).

Courses.

• MSA by UPA University.
• APQP by Tecnologico de Monterrey
• Processes and risks of the IATF 16949 IATF
• Core tools (APQP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, PPAP)