Rolando Cardiel

Mechatronics Engineer and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with 8+ years leading production, manufacturing, process engineering and continuous improvement initiatives.

Production Coordinator at Hutchinson (2025-03 – Present)

Responsible of process, continuous improvement and production departments. Responsible of 100 people.

• Increase 20% OEE from 65% to 85%
• Increase productivity 17% from 2 to 2.35
• Reduce scrap 2% from 7% to 5%
• Reduce turn over 5% from 7% to 2%
• Reduce absenteeism 2% from 3% to 1%
• Reduce Over Time 9% from 19% to 10%
• Reduce WIP 15 hours from 25 hours to 10 hours
• SMED with a reduction of 70% from 17 minutes to 5 minutes

Head of Continuous Improvement & Productivity at Daltile (2023-11 – 2024-08)

• Increase 20% 5´s audits from 40% to 60%
• Reduction of chipped product in format 1515 25%
• Saving in cost reductions as strapping, cardboard, batteries

Production Coordinator at Volkswagen (2021-11 – 2023-09)

• Release of new model in production line
• 12% Reduction of scrap monthly
• Reduce measure time 25% from 1 hour to 45 minutes

Production Supervisor at Danone (2019-03 – 2021-02)

• Standardize the TPM
• Reduce percentage of affectation from 2% to 0.6%

Production Superintendent at CFE (2017-11 – 2018-08)

Production Supervisor at Tsubakimoto Automotive (2016-03 – 2017-08)

• Start up 4 projects from zero (Nissan, Ford, Mazda, BMW)
• Eliminate the inventory differences

– División de Ingeniería campus Irapuato-Salamanca (FIMEE) (2010 – 2015)