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JOSE Eduardo RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ

Crossville

Summary

Be part of company successes by leading changes based on experience in the automotive field.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Manager

Durable Products LLC
07.2024 - Current
  • OEM truck customer complaint reduction 51%
  • OEM PPM reduction 95%
  • Non-trucks customer complaints reduction 29%
  • Re orient Quality culture to a deeper performance of automotive industry requirements
  • Provide guidance to a multidisciplinary staff manager team to develop better IATF internal processes.
  • Plan to re structure Quality system.

Supplier Quality Development

NAVISTAR
10.2018 - 07.2024
  • - Interior & Exterior Plastic commodity supplier responsible South US and Mexico under deck.
  • - Member of Category Management team (sourcing decisions).
  • - 3 of 8 Navistar 2023 excellence awarded suppliers under my deck, (Developed by Mentoring process)
  • - Support Navistar engineering on 6 MPAPs (Eng spec modification).
  • - Current and new suppliers’ evaluation (2nd Party Audits)
  • - APQP driving suppliers for successful new launches
  • - Challenging supplier organizations to improve systems.
  • - None suppliers had warranty issues, recalls, or major impact

Launch Manager - IAC

Automotive industry for GM, Nissan, Ford, FCA
09.2017 - 10.2018
  • - 2020 New program launching
  • - Cx430 6.5 M savings, by insourcing paint portion.
  • - Above 100 molding tools launching & sub-assy in charge.
  • - Engineering changes management, no obsolescence cost.
  • - Capacity & tools insources / transferences successfully
  • -Project approval requests, (Capital)

Paint Manager

IAC
01.2017 - 08.2017
  • - OEE improve from 72% 2016Y to 80% 2017YTD.
  • - Scrap reduction, quality improvements, (defects elimination)
  • - Production scheduling optimization.
  • -Leading 500K savings projects- Kaizen- insourcing.
  • - Coaching engineering department / strategies.
  • - Leading plant work pattern 2018 reorganization.

Plant Capacity planning and Industrial Engineering
10.2012 - 01.2017
  • Company Overview: www.iacna.com www.iacgroup.com
  • .- Potential new vehicles platforms plant feasibility evaluation, impacts and manufacturing plant’s needs, infrastructure needed to confirm feasibility for quote submission to OEMs.
  • .- Over $3M tooling cost replacement-refurbish approved by OEMs.
  • .- Leading and implemented 1$Million savings Insource project
  • .- OEM tooling replacement-refurbish justification .
  • .- Capacity analysis / tickets/C2 survey for GM / Nissan/ FCA / FORD -Ford capacity analyst certified.
  • .-Plant Capacity (Manning-calculation & management of database).
  • .- Assembly line defects/reduction.
  • .- Plant lay out optimization by Systemic Layout Planning
  • .- Supporting Internal plants of corporation to improve and achieve production rates.
  • .- New product launching support. Leading and/or supporting activities to achieve R@R events.
  • .- Couching partners to develop insourcing projects.

Project Administrator

RCA Engineering Services
09.2010 - 05.2012
  • Company Overview: Temporary Contract by Project.
  • Manufacturing Facilities Detail Engineering Designs.
  • Multidisciplinary team management and coordination.
  • Deliverables accomplishment and design drawings on executions by the costumer.
  • Project tracking performance responsibility.
  • Document control & update information releases.
  • Manage communications between RCA team members and Nemak-team members.

Directing a Productive facility

06.2004 - 09.2010
  • Micro company structured by 13 workers large. / Purchase and commissioning of equipment / Quality criteria / Production control / Maintenance equipment and building / HR / Sales-customer service / Administration / Business Re-Orientation.

Industrial Engineer & projects

Kimberly Clark Corporation
05.2002 - 05.2004
  • Company Overview: Mexico Border. A Manufacturing Facility focused on the Health Care sector
  • Successful transfer of production lines US-US, US-MX
  • Implementation methodology PMI (scope, time, execution)
  • Time & Project integration management Responsibility
  • Industrial engineer plant activities Material handle and flow analysis/ Equipment/ BOM’S revision and update/ Engineering change orders/ Internal audits/ Times and motions/ Standards rates/ Hand aids/75% of the mill production lines re-configuration/ Multidisciplinary support.

Education

No Degree - English Language

University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba
12.1997

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering

University of Nuevo Leon
Monterrey, N.L.
01.1996

Skills

  • - New programs APQP /launches/ feasibility/
  • - Change Management/quotes
  • - Project Management based PMI methodology
  • - OEMs Capacity Surveys (Nissan, Ford, GM, FCA)
  • - Truck OEM Experience (International-Volvo)
  • - Equipment /Tools Transferences
  • - OEM tooling – replacement-refurbish justification as tier1
  • - Capital investments request submission
  • - Design Thinking/ insights for innovation Cert: 9487-2531170
  • - Tier 1 Plant cost cards approval
  • - Improve Quality systems
  • - Core tools / IATF / ISO9011/ISO 14001/ VDA
  • -VDA Auditor cert#63-23-2303-100684/ IATF/ ISO

Accomplishments

Driving suppliers company to success by winning customer prize recognition.

Driving Supplier to no warranty issues


Successful launches, no customer issues

Successful engineering changes, without obsolescence

Savings up to $6.5 M. avoiding outsource on launch phase.

Savings up to $1M current production by supporting Kaizen events







Certification

VDA 6.3 Certification recorded in Germany.

Design Thinking/ insights for innovation Cert: 9487-2531170

Languages

English
Full Professional
Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Quality Manager

Durable Products LLC
07.2024 - Current

Supplier Quality Development

NAVISTAR
10.2018 - 07.2024

Launch Manager - IAC

Automotive industry for GM, Nissan, Ford, FCA
09.2017 - 10.2018

Paint Manager

IAC
01.2017 - 08.2017

Plant Capacity planning and Industrial Engineering
10.2012 - 01.2017

Project Administrator

RCA Engineering Services
09.2010 - 05.2012

Directing a Productive facility

06.2004 - 09.2010

Industrial Engineer & projects

Kimberly Clark Corporation
05.2002 - 05.2004

No Degree - English Language

University of Winnipeg

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering

University of Nuevo Leon

Training

  • Professional Project Management Course -International Institute for Learning in Mexico
  • .
  • Institute Member of (PMI)
  • Manager’s building up, Course. ITESM
  • Systematic Lay out planning course- by Richard Murther, Troy, Michigan.

Awards

Diploma for second best student at last 2 semesters of Industrial engineers’ career.
JOSE Eduardo RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ