{"id":485,"date":"2020-07-07T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:43:16","slug":"director-va-ve-operational-excellence-164283-bsme-certified-project-manager-manufacturing-will-relo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/exceptional-talent\/director-va-ve-operational-excellence-164283-bsme-certified-project-manager-manufacturing-will-relo\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Director VA-VE \/ DtV (164283) \/ Automotive Tier 1 \/ Certified Project Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you need to remove costs from your manufacturing?  Need a competitive advantage to your product?  Does your product have the features your customers will pay for?  If you said no to any of these, then let us introduce you to a two-legged solution!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We are excited to present a Global Director VA-VE and Operational Excellence who has literally written and executed the VA-VE playbook for 2 major Tier 1 Automotive companies<\/span><\/strong>. His methods include building strong teams, delivering training workshops, and developing key dashboards and metrics.  He is a BSME and a Certified Project Manager with a strong background in Operational Excellence, VA-VE, Continuous Improvement, Program Management, and Change Management.<\/strong> He is highly skilled at creating a culture of improvement, and accountability and is experienced in implementing new divisions and strategic directions. He has morphed VAVE disciplines into Design to Value<\/strong> as he expanded the program to expand into Involving Manufacturing, Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, Marketing and Suppliers\/ Vendors in all his VAVE Projects to obtain better results.<\/p>\n

His history in sales, project\/program management, VA\/VE deployment, and global leadership make him a profit machine as he looks like he is printing money through cost savings, process\/product improvements, and strong relationships. He is willing to relocate.  His background includes:<\/p>\n

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Take this giant leap forward for your manufacturing operations and jump ahead of competitors with a better product, a better process, and a better price position!<\/span>  Call now at 724 814 3791 or email at bsweedar@mriomega.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director VA-VE \/ Operational Excellence (164283) \/ BSME \/ Certified Project Manager \/ Manufacturing \/ Will relo<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2022 Written and executed the VAVE Process and Playbook for two Major Tier1 Automotive company<\/strong>
\n\u2022 A diverse experience including Strategic Planning; VA-VE, Technical Cost Reduction & Cost Optimization; Business Development; Team Development, Program Management; Skillful Negotiations
\n\u2022 Over 10 years of successfully creating and leading VAVE divisions within Tier1 automotive suppliers.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Lead and Develop Organizational Foundation for VAVE, Operational Excellence and CI- continuous improvement, create processes, guidelines,and establish a VA-VE department from the ground up.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Implemented over $12.75M annual saving of VAVE in 2.5 yrs.<\/strong>
\nDeveloped and implemented Value Management projects and Continuous Improvement for North America
\n\u2022 Created and implanted runner up Plastic Industry Innovative Idea of 2018 for F150 Bezel \/ annual saving $ 2.5M<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Championed global efforts to create, develop process, guidelines, and establish a comprehensive VA-VE department from ground up <\/strong>
\n\u2022 Conducted workshops, develop and lead of 14 Program Management VA-VE teams at the plants<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Created Continuous Improvement communication channel by interacting with all other departments in the value chain: engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, operations, finance and sales
\n\u2022 In 3 years accomplished over $11.5 Million while increasing profit margins <\/strong>
\no Achieved $4.5 M for Ford Chassis<\/strong>
\no Achieved $2.4M for Ford BIW<\/strong>
\no Achieved $1.6M for Chrysler <\/strong>
\no Achieved $3M for GM<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Led New Product Introduction (NPI) Team including risk management and Profit margins analysis
\n\u2022 Identify and mitigate in-scope changes,
\no Resulting in Recovery of over $1.3 million of labor inefficiency <\/strong>
\n\u2022 Increased Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) from 68% to 91%<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Utilizing VA-VE and Continues Improvement process, which yielded over $160K in Technical Cost Reduction opportunities<\/strong>
\nImproved on program timing and milestones by 25% through<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Leading Design to Value Projects<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Running VAVE Through Suppliers<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Evaluating Feature Values and Costs<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Managing NPD Projects Start to Finish<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Operational Excellence<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Selecting Components for Evaluation<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Validation Implementation Verification Process
\n\u2022 Driving Technology and Procurement Strategies
\n\u2022 Innovating New Solutions
\n\u2022 Idea Generation\/Brainstorming
\n\u2022 Equipment Teardown
\n\u2022 Benchmarking
\n\u2022 Focus Groups
\n\u2022 NPD (New Product Development) Stage-Gate process
\n\u2022 DFMEA\/PFMEA\/FEA
\n\u2022 Concept Phase
\n\u2022 Supplier Cost structure
\n\u2022 Value Analysis
\n\u2022 Cost Driver analysis
\n\u2022 Target Costing
\n\u2022 Lean Manufacturing
\n\u2022 Coordinating Projects With Multiple Departments
\n\u2022 Project Management
\n\u2022 Value Stream Mapping
\n\u2022 Leading Cross Functional Teams
\n\u2022 Earned Value Management
\n\u2022 Testing
\n\u2022 Supply Chain Management
\n\u2022 Developing Global Business Strategy
\n\u2022 Continuous Improvement
\n\u2022 Kaizen
\n\u2022 Six Sigma
\n\u2022 Working VAVE through Purchasing Team
\n\u2022 Root Cause Analysis
\n\u2022 APQP
\n\u2022 PPAP<\/p>\n

Education \/ Certifications<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Texas A&M University-Kingsville \u2013 BSME<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Certified Project Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you need to remove costs from your manufacturing?  Need a competitive advantage to your product?  Does your product have the features your customers will pay for?  If you said no to any of these, then let us introduce you to a two-legged solution! We are excited to present a Global Director VA-VE and Operational…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,314,7],"tags":[28,30,32,34,36,115,121,192,223,224,225,226],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-supply-chain-purchasing","category-exceptional-talent","tag-manufacturing","tag-apqp","tag-bsme","tag-automotive","tag-mriomega","tag-lean","tag-ppap","tag-cost-reduction","tag-va-ve","tag-design-to-value","tag-cost-out","tag-savings"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}