Ricardo Martinez

Industrial Engineer with experience in quality engineering and process quality control within the automotive manufacturing industry. Focused on prevention, process control, root cause analysis, customer validation, new project launches and continuous improvement. Experienced working with machining and assembly processes, quality systems and customer requirements, with strong teamwork and adaptability.

Project Quality Engineer at Brovedani Mexico (2024-07 – 2026-09)

Company that manufactures precision mechanical components and special machines for industrial process automation.

• Manage quality requirements throughout the new product development, launch, and project phases, ensuring compliance with customer specifications and internal standards.
• Customer product validation (PPAP).
• Serve as a key quality contact for customers, managing quality issues, complaints, technical requirements, and corrective action activities.
• Prepare, review, and maintain core quality documentation, including PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, and Process Capability Studies.
• Monitoring of process and product quality indicators (scrap) and definition of improvement actions.
• Participate in internal, process, product, and customer audits, including follow-up and closure of findings and corrective actions.
• Evaluation and validation of special process suppliers, primarily heat treatment suppliers.
• Supplier visits and evaluations to verify compliance with quality and process requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and control quality and process documentation, including work instructions, inspection standards, form and quality records.

Quality Engineer at Hitachi Astemo / Brakes Business Unit (Tier 1) (2019-02 – 2024-07)

Multinational company dedicated to the manufacture of automotive parts (disc brakes).

• Start of new projects and line transfers, including internal/external machine validations, new process development and customer validations (PPAP).
• Customer product validation (PPAP).
• Development of quality documents to ensure systematic process control: Control Plans, Log Sheets, Work Instructions and Visual Aids.
• Process control for machining and assembly operations, monitoring FTQ, SCRAP, RPNs and PPMs internally and with customers.
• Root cause analysis for production line problems, customer claims and warranty issues.
• Support to Change Management with engineering changes involving internal, customer and supplier requirements.
• Participation in Capacity Requirements (eCAR) submissions.
• Ensure product quality and validate assembly-line stations during Start of Production and Serial Production for plant transfers.
• Monitor scrap versus sales and implement scrap-reduction projects.

Quality Technician at IMI Precision Engineering (Norgren Manufacturing) (2017-08 – 2019-02)

• Root cause analysis for production line problems.
• Development of quality documents to ensure systematic process control: Log Sheets, Work Instructions and Visual Aids.
• Establishment of quality metrics to control production lines.
• Implementation of processes for nonconforming product management.
• Quarantine management.
• Coordination of process inspection teams to validate process capability, machine capability and compliance with product specifications.
• Support for new projects, including documentation development, machine validations and MSA.

Industrial Engineer (2012-08 – 2017-01)