Quality Manager at Asientos Vehiculares Astron (2022-05 – 2025-08)
Quality and Environment Assurance manager for the business, focusing seats for bus market USA and Canada (90% of production) and Mexico (10% of production).
- Re-Certification, Maintenance and Improvement of Quality and Environment (ISO 9001 and ISO 14001)
- Attention to customer complaints and solutions of reported failures
- Coordination and leadership of High-Performance teams process improvement and prevent failures in raw material, manufacturing process and as finished seat
- Responsible for the Quality system for new projects
- Development of suppliers for attention and solution of issues reported in Incoming Inspection and/or raw material in process
- Laboratory manager for parts measurement, as well as the control and calibration of measurement equipment used in laboratory and process
- Responsible for the development of PPAPs for delivery to customers
- Internal budget management: $3.2MDP
- Team management: 18 people (Engineering and Quality Inspectors) / Indirect 310 people manufacturing
Quality external advisor and Continuos Improvement at Murat Wiring System Mexico (2021-09 – 2022-05)
External consultant of the ISO 9001 quality system, updating the quality system for re-Certification audit presentation.
- External consultant of the ISO 9001 quality system, updating the quality system for re-Certification audit presentation
- Recertification audit, as well as follow-up audits
- Customer service with improvement plans in meeting needs
- Attention and monitoring of suppliers, claims and replacements under warranty
- Quality control in process, inspection in workstations and dispatch of finished product
- Increased productivity in assembly line, of 25 harnesses/day to 75 harnesses/day
Quality Manager at Irizar Mexico (2010-08 – 2021-08)
Quality assurance regional manager for the business, focus on buses.
- Quality assurance regional manager for the business, focus on buses
- Leadership of worksheet plans to avoid and prevent failures in raw material, manufacturing process and as a finished product
- Quality system responsible for the new products launch
- After-sales service for customer satisfaction on incidents
- Suppliers development on quality system and process audit as: Air Conditioning, Pneumatics, Adhesives and Painting
- Quality assurance of raw material suppliers for engineering compliance
- Internal budget management: $2.8MDP
- Team management: 24 direct people (Engineering and Quality Inspectors) / Indirect 650 people manufacturing
Senior Quality Coordinator for Fiat, Chrysler and Ford at Johnson Controls Automotive (2006-06 – 2010-08)
Senior Quality Coordinator for Fiat, Chrysler and Ford, managing control plans and quality systems.
- Generation and maintenance of Control Plans for the Seat Assembly process for Chrysler & Ford customers
- Use of tools such as the SPC, 7-Step methodology (Chrysler) and Poka Yoke Audits
- Responsible for multifunctional teams and project management for the launch OF JC49, in the preparation of PFMEA and Control plan for each process
- Analysis of problems through the use of Green Belt tools
- Coordinate the updating of the BOS Quality System in the process
- Internal budget management: $1.7 MDP
- Team management: 14 direct people (Engineering, laboratory and metrologists) / Indirect 450 people manufacturing
Senior quality engineer for Volkswagen at Johnson Controls Automotive (2001-02 – 2006-06)
Senior quality engineer for Volkswagen, managing control plans and quality systems for welding and painting processes.
- Generation and maintenance of Control plan for Welding and Painting processes
- Tools implementations such as the SPC, problem solving method (PSD)
- Customer service through periodic visits to manufacturing and suppliers locations
- Poka Yokes audit in welding equipment
- Implementation and maintenance of the BOS Quality System (JCI)
- Leader for the delivery of RMIs to the Volkswagen customer, both parts and documentation
Head of Quality and Improvements processes at Johnson Controls Automotive (2000-02 – 2001-02)
Head of Quality and Improvements processes
Process Engineer at Johnson Controls Automotive (1999-09 – 2000-02)
Process Engineer
Production Supervisor at Johnson Controls Automotive (1999-03 – 1999-09)
Production Supervisor
