{"id":934,"date":"2021-02-08T16:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:43:11","slug":"quality-manager-137578-bsee-green-belt-red-x-journeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/engineering\/quality-manager-137578-bsee-green-belt-red-x-journeyman\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Manager (188933) BSEE, Green Belt, Red X Journeyman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you ready to RAISE THE QUALITY BAR in your manufacturing organization? <\/strong> If so, then let us introduce you to a highly-motivated Quality Leader with 20 years of vendor management experience in the automotive, aerospace, and defense industry. This Quality Leader is a Money Maker and Problem Solver.<\/strong> He is an Electrical Engineer; is a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt; is a Certified Red X Journeyman, is a Certified ISO Lead Auditor and has a Statistical Journeyman Certification. <\/strong> He has led global quality teams across multiple plants and has performed as a Global Launch Manager for GM truck programs for 7 plants. He also has international experience with an assignment in China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is skilled in leading C-suite executives within Fortune 500 companies to achieve world-class performance metrics through strategic and tactical methods and the results prove it. <\/strong> He has a long track record of success, no matter what industry you put him in and his experience covers most types of manufacturing operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You now have the opportunity to raise the bar on your manufacturing organization<\/strong> and put this extreme Quality Talent to work for you as he s actively searching for a new leadership role and is willing to relocate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact bsweedar@mriomega.com or call Butch at 724 814 3791 to set up a conversation!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Led a team of quality engineering, quality control supervisors and inspectors providing on-going technical \/ operational guidance for leading designer and manufacturer of specialty valves, filters, and advanced fluid control products for critical missions for defense market.
\u2022 Led 4 quality engineers, 2 quality control supervisors, and 24 inspectors across 4 business units while driving cost of poor-quality reduction initiatives<\/strong>.
\u2022 We had a high number of customer escapes for Fuel Contactor Detection parts we provided to Boeing, our largest customer. <\/strong>
o A significant portion of the returns were undocumented and deemed as \u201cno-fault found\u201d after being returned and tested at our facility.
o I developed a cross-functional team that included engineering, operations, and quality engineers from both companies.
o The corrective actions spanned from manufacturing improvements to design fixes based on learnings of how our product performed in its application.
o We began to create Pareto charts, and standard work attacking the top 3 confirmed failures through 5 why, fishbone analyses and 8D methodologies to ultimately significantly reduce customer escapes by 50%.<\/strong>
\u2022 Responsible for multi-million dollar annual spend while leading a team of 7 buyers driving cost reduction initiatives with 300 suppliers.
\u2022 Certified ISO 9000 Lead Auditor<\/strong> ensuring vendor compliance to regulations and standards.
\u2022 Reduced and sustained key supplier defects by more than 75% in 9 months.<\/strong>
\u2022 Managed Product Line Managers for braking systems and module commodities for 50 manufacturing plants<\/strong> in North and South America.
\u2022 Reduced supplier defects by 20% in less than 6 months.<\/strong>
\u2022 Developed and executed cost reduction initiative in supply base of over 2500 suppliers.<\/strong>
\u2022 Responsible for launch readiness for all 7 full-size truck plants<\/strong> U.S. wide producing over 1.7 million vehicles per year.<\/strong>
\u2022 Supervised supplier quality engineers responsible for electrical components across all truck and car programs through the Advanced Product Quality Procedure (APQP).<\/strong>
\u2022 Launched the 1st ever Hybrid SUV Tahoe <\/strong>
\u2022 Managed supplier scorecards and new part approvals.
\u2022 Achieved over $250,000.00 in annual cost savings exceeding metrics by 150%<\/strong>
\u2022 Led dozens of global companies through deadline-based timelines from ground-breaking sites to up-and-running operational facilities with staff and equipment to scale for high volume automotive parts.<\/strong>
\u2022 Achieved $10M annual savings <\/strong>for implementation of GPS antenna solution for OnStar system.
\u2022 Supervised local Chinese supplier quality engineers supporting global vehicle launches<\/strong> and managing new Asia Pacific supply base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Quality Team Leadership (35)
\u2022 13 years in Automotive
\u2022 11 years in Aerospace and Defense
\u2022 OEM Manufacturing
\u2022 Tier 1 & 2 Supplier
\u2022 Stamping Operations
\u2022 Casting Operations
\u2022 Assembly Operations
\u2022 Welding Operations
\u2022 Heat Treat Operations
\u2022 Packaging Assembly
\u2022 Coating \/ Painting Operations
\u2022 Injection Molding Operations
\u2022 Blow Molding Operations
\u2022 Electronics Manufacturing
\u2022 Automotive Lighting
\u2022 Printed Circuit Boards \/ PCB<\/strong>
\u2022 Vendor Offsite Supplier Quality
\u2022 Supplier Validation \/ Qualification
\u2022 Using Quality Database Systems
\u2022 Quality Management Experience
\u2022 Shop Floor Process Quality
\u2022 Quality Training Experience
\u2022 Total Quality Management (TQM)
\u2022 Setting Up Quality Systems from Scratch
\u2022 Reducing Manufacturing Cycle Time
\u2022 Reducing Scrap
\u2022 Optimizing Manufacturing Processes
\u2022 De-bottlenecking Processes
\u2022 Implementing Continuous improvement
\u2022 New production line startup
\u2022 Reducing WIP Inventory
\u2022 Using CMM Equipment
\u2022 Leading Kaizen Events
\u2022 Working with Lean Teams
\u2022 Leading Six Sigma Teams
\u2022 Troubleshooting Root Cause
\u2022 Statistical Investigations
\u2022 Conducting Trial Fit \/ Function
\u2022 VAVE Projects
\u2022 PPAP \/ APQP
\u2022 AS9100
\u2022 ISO9001
\u2022 TS16949
\u2022 MIL-SPEC
\u2022 GM QSB+
\u2022 ISO Auditing
\u2022 NADCAP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND<\/strong>
\u2022 Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering \u2013 University of Prairie View A&M, Prairie View, TX
\u2022 Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
\u2022 Certified Red X Journeyman
\u2022 Statistical Journeyman Certification<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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