Business Unit Manager Leader - TI AUTOMOTIVE - Reynosa
(2022-03)
Operation of 5 Business Units, 4 Shifts, 6 days a week. Responsible for 2 Business Units, I Lead 2 BUM and 8 Supervisors with total headcount of +880 Direct employees.
- Develop Business Unit Managers in order to assure they are able to meet daily weekly and monthly metrics (KPIs). Safety, Quality, Productivity, Sales, Scrap, CI continuous improvement.
- Assure correct FCTS plan 3 months ahead in order to oversees any sales fluctuation and have full HC on time. Same time we need to assure STD is being use to have proper HC for Daily demand for IDL and DL). Meeting Budget Plan.
- Assure BUM and CFT members work together on a daily basis to keep their metrics under target or to have a plan to execute and improve their trend. In 2019, 2020 & 2021 we just received GM, Subaru, Toyota awards for Quality, Delivery 2024.
- Assure every preproduction is being executed on time and with appropriate resources following procedures by BUM and CFT members, at all Customer visits, we need to be ready to fulfill expectations on R&R to be ready for Mass production.
- Set a plan with related members, guide and lead as required with management during company crisis due to excess of demand by customer, purchasing issues and restrictions.
- Assure managers, Supervisors, GL and Reliefs receive proper training to improve their interpersonal relationship skills, with a Weekly meeting-Open discussion.
- Act as a facilitator assuring all process owners interact with their expertise to our process controls and procedures (BIQS, Q1, IATF-16946, ISO14001, and ISO9000). Currently all Certs are 100% in compliance.
- Perform gemba walk with the teams for improving manufacturing, reduce waste and improve 5s. Currently plant scores 4.2 out of 5.
- Reduced Scrap 20% with mapping the process flow, layout improvements and establishing auditable procedures.
- Manage kaizen event show on a weekly basis, activities with all CFT involvement having total cost on soft and hard savings.
- Reduced down time by working with top three issues each week from 11% to 8% by breaking down root causes.
- Improved OEE system to be able to calculate daily working time report and DT with accurate data and correct daily targets. Currently OEE is above 78% which is acceptable with new lines on ramp up.
- Manage weekly, monthly KPI report to Canton USA HQ.
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly KPI review: Safety, People, Quality, Volume, Cost, CI (continues improvement).
Business Unit Manager - ABC dlhBowles - Reynosa
(2019-01 - 2022-03)
Promoted position. Operation of 5 Business Units, 4 Shifts, 6 days a week. Responsible for 2 Business Units, I Lead 2 BUM and 8 Supervisors with total headcount of +880 Direct employees.
Production Manager - Hutchinson FTS
(2014-05 - 2018-12)
Hutchinson FTS is a Worldwide Company Tier 1. Hutchinson has presence in a global market 95 sites spanning 4 continents has the adaptability to guide its customers through production and organization constraints and offer them personal support with their various processes. Responsible of the cutting aluminum tubes area, Preform and Enform area, graziol, brazer, and flow drill assembly machines, Responsible to feed and maintain flow and Kanban for the 40 final cells for all customers, production runs 24/7.
I have 6 supervisors and a headcount of 640 operators.
- KPI overview: Safety, Attainment, customer Delivery, Scrap, PPM, Customer claims, Absenteeism, Turn over, Downtime, OEE metrics.
- Develop PDCA to manage opportunities to improve the processes.
- Responsible of the GM and Nissan Final cells and Nissan final cells.
- Implement and reinforced the 5's read across the plant.
- Introduced new product in the lines.
- Participate In the certification of the ISO/TS 16949.
- Certification of the plant in the VDA 6.1.
- Coordinate focus factory meeting, QRQC Boards.
- Inforce Gemba Walk thru the plant.
- Develop a daily schedule to meet customer demand, internal, external.
- Production and maintenance schedule TPM weekly and monthly program.
- Support Annual volume 3,000,000 pcs.
Operations Manager - Laird Technologies - Reynosa Tamps
(2007-09 - 2008-11)
Operation of 6 business units two shifts, with an average efficiency of 90%.
- Recovery of Past Due months with improved mapping, inventory.
- Scrap Reduction from 13% to 2% within 3 months by kaizen programs and utilizing KANBAN system.
- Restructuring of the plant, three months to adjust manpower to demand work load, reducing salary budget from 1 million pesos to 450.000 pesos, I had to redefine roles and Develop unit member, responsibilities and accountabilities for the units to continue achieving customer service demands.
- Implementation of the 5's and system of continuous improvement (Kaizen).
- Managing material handlers in the units, knowledge of the use of SAP, MRP, QAD and Maximo steam systems.
- Coordinate Focus Factory Meetings on a daily basis for a better communication and motivation of all employees.
Production Manager - Maquiladora Aurea - Camargo y Valadeces
(2000-02 - 2007-09)
Managing 2 shifts 8 Supervisors with 600 DL employees. Managing Plating cells for automotive parts and electronic components.
- 96% average of efficiency on time delivery to customers.
- Monitor & support processes to meet customer specs.
- Coordinate Focus meetings on daily basis.
- Delivery on time to the customers and coordinate surveys to collect their needs.
- Coordinate capacity planning team.
- Headcount vs Demand Weekly for budget analysis.
- Scrap monitoring on a daily basis reaching 1.9% average on a whole year.
Operations Manager - KBR (Kellog Brown and Root) - Dubai, Irak
(2008-01 - 2011-01)
Plating Operations, water purification plant. Air Force Base Anaconda. Manage 2 shifts, 4 Supervisors and 120 DL employees. 24hrs 7 days a week.
- QCD water delivery for plating and life support to the Air force.
Production Supervisor - Rex Mex Plant 36 - Reynosa
(1998-01 - 2000-01)
Best Line in 1999 in Production, quality, Rotation and absenteeism. 3 lines with 45 employees, 1.5% scrap.
- Increase % of eff. From 75% to 100%.
- Best line in customer satisfaction with no returns.
Production Supervisor - Fruit the Loom - Miguel Aleman
(1997-01 - 1998-01)
