Quality Manager (95486) Manufacturing / Certified ISO9001, IATF16949 Auditor/ VDA6.3 / Green Belt
Seasoned Quality Professional with over 17 years of experience providing qualification, validation, engineering, and operations in the manufacturing industry. He has 2 bachelor’s degrees in Manufacturing Technology and another in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Six Sigma Greenbelt and a Certified Lead IATF16949 Auditor. This “Game Changer” has a long list of recommendations from peers and bosses!
He is skilled in all aspects of quality assurance in production environments including Lean manufacturing, CAPA, qualification and validation protocols, continuous improvement initiatives, process management and development, and customer audit support. He has a reputation for working well with people at all levels of an organization. He continually exceeds expectations by working closely with operations to improve processes and raise the bar. This awesome Quality Leader is interested in exploring new opportunities and is ready to interview.
• Leading the cross-functional problem-solving team and effectively reducing the number of customer complaints by 40%.
• Driving corrective actions identified from audits or evolutions to ensure non-conformance resolutions are completed.
• Auditing and qualifying new suppliers that are potentially going to be added as well as current suppliers on annual basis.
• Setting annual objectives and KPIs and managing towards those goals with a yearly target of 20% improvement per year.
• Improved divisional KPI by the leading problem-solving team to reduce 70% of customer complaints over 3 years.
• Reduced quality-related spending by 10% YoY while leading the team to design/build in-process inspection stations.
• Supported engineering for PPAP, Gage R&R, MSA, and capability studies and assisted in transitioning IATF.
• Managed gauge calibration of 750 various gages as well as delivered quality and efficiency results for headers/rollers.
• Managed TS16949, VDA 6.3, QFMA (Quality First Maturity Path), and Caterpillar SQEP, ISO 14001.
• Reduced scrap from 3.65% of sales to 0.5 % by leading scrap reduction and process improvement projects.
• Process Management & Development
• Quality Assurance for Manufacturing
• Component & Assembly Preparation
• Change Controls. Deviations & Complaints
• Risk Mitigation & Gap Assessments
• Material & Equipment Specifications
• Validation Protocols & Test Plans
• Internal & Regulatory Audit Support
• Statistical Analysis& Reporting
• Welding, Stamping & Assembly
• Molding & Vacuum Forming
• Supplier & Customer Management
• KPI, 9001, 14001, IATF 16949 & Six Sigma
• Proactive & Responsive Customer Service
• Excellent Verbal & Written Communication
• Vendor Offsite Supplier Quality
• Supplier Validation / Qualification
• Using Quality Database Systems
• Process Control Quality Experience
• Creating SOP Training
• Quality Management Experience (13)
• Shop Floor Process Quality
• Quality Training Experience
• Component & Assembly Preparation
• Change Controls. Deviations & Complaints
• Risk Mitigation & Gap Assessments
• Material & Equipment Specifications
• Validation Protocols & Test Plans
• Internal & Regulatory Audit Support
• Statistical Analysis& Reporting
• Welding, Stamping & Assembly
• Molding & Vacuum Forming
• Supplier & Customer Management
• KPI, 9001, 14001, IATF 16949 & Six Sigma
• Proactive & Responsive Customer Service
• Excellent Verbal & Written Communication
• Vendor Offsite Supplier Quality
• Supplier Validation / Qualification
• Using Quality Database Systems
• Process Control Quality Experience
• Creating SOP Training
• Quality Management Experience
• Shop Floor Process Quality
• Quality Training Experience
Technical Skills
MS Project, Minitab, Visio, AutoCAD, Inventor, Laser QC 5.2, PCDIMS 4.2, MPACT & CAM2Q, SAP, Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint. Smart Sheet
Training, Licenses & Certifications
• Six Sigma Greenbelt from the University of Wisconsin. 2009.
• Certified ISO 9001 Internal Auditor
• Certified Lead Auditor IATF 16949 – Plexus International
• VDA 6.3, SQEP, KPS
Education
• Bachelor of Technology in Manufacturing /
• Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering Diploma