Jorge Alfredo Sotelo de Landa
Jorge_a_sotelo@hotmail.com
MANUFACTURING MANAGER / REGIONAL LEAN COORDINATOR
Value added, continuous improvement, customer and quality focused business professional who provides the strategic vision and leadership that drive growing, financial, operational process, productivity, efficiency and bottom-line improvements at multi-site manufacturing organizations. Bilingual Operations executive with 22 + years of manufacturing experience included 10 + management experience demonstrating year-over-year a consistent success in achieving revenue, cost, productivity and delivery goals with a strong qualification in day-to-day manufacturing operations including significant field experience in Budgeting, planning and executing strategies to increase value in actual process, develop new process or transfer technology. Background includes exceptional change management and recognized for high-profile turnaround achievements affecting revenue, stability, profitability and grows in operations across multiple domestic locations. Robust engineer with solid knowledge and experienced implementation of Lean manufacturing or Toyota production system, Six Sigma, Kaizen events, cost reduction projects and other formal productivity/performance improvement initiatives in order to have, robust process, minimun waste operations, continuous flow, low lead times.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Value added oriented Value stream mapping strategies Cost saving projects implementation Quality management system Quality ISO/TS 16949 Six-sigma Projects Statistics Control process Oriented Financial analysis Budget, planning and administrative Cost control strategies Operational management Management by objectives Production control Lay-out improvement Multi-tasking Regulatory Compliance Management Turnaround and Management strategy Inventory cost management Supply chain Management Organizational Key metric developer
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1997 to Actual / Maquilas Teta-kawi S.A. de C.V. - Guaymas Sonora, México -
Regional Lean coordinator.
Div. Cooper Standard Automotive (Fluid system division).
TIER1 Assembly that manufactures and assembles fluid systems for automotive industry.
Performed financial analysis and lean budget, cost saving and six-sigma Projects across 6 Mexican facilities. Develop and perform key metrics for all locations identified by the corporation’s business model, Lean culture enterprise deployment, lean and six-sigma Green Belt trainer. Incentive program developer Electronic Pull system implementation champion across Mexican, USA and Canadian locations and leader of Statistical analysis projects.
UNIT BUSINESS Manager.
Div. Cooper Standard Automotive (Fluid system division).
TIER1 Assembly that manufactures and assembles fluid systems for automotive industry.
Manage one business unit, as a TIER 1 of some Ford Assembly plants, with union employees, indirect employee and salaries. Direct all Unit activities to ensure timely execution of scheduling and manufacturing to meet customers’ product demand and delivery commitments (brake Lines, Fuel lines, bundle Assemblies, Packaging, and shipping). Optimize operations' intra-processes to meet financial and delivery goals identifying, prioritizing and complete top projects that could impact company business budget, Corporate and company goals and objectives in a timely manner with full Quality and P&L responsibility for in-house customers. Transform business unit by using Lean and continuous improvement principles that slashed hourly costs, boosted on-time delivery, increased productivity metrics and reduced scrap and Reduction of inventory DOH.
Manufacturing Manager.
Div. Thermacore and St. Clair.
Thermacore a Modin division is a manufacturer contractor that develops, manufactures and assembles heat sinks and heat system evaporators for electronics, telecommunications and computer Industry.
St. Clair is a manufacturer contractor that manufactures and assembles electrical harnesses for Automotive Industry.
Manage Production and Engineering department, with 150+ union employees. Direct all production and engineering activities to ensure timely execution of manufacturing to meet customers’ product demand, quality and delivery commitments, Packaging, and shipping). Optimize process to meet financial and delivery goals identifying, prioritizing and complete top projects as a new or transferred projects that could impact company goals and objectives in a timely manner with full Quality, Production and Engineering
responsibility. Improve performance by using continuous improvement projects and Kaizen events.
1995 to 1997 / LEVICAL S.A. de C.V. (LEVITON Co.) . -- Tecate Baja California Norte, México --
Manufacturing Engineer / Engineering changes Coordinator
Manufacturer contractor that develops manufactures and assembles PC-boars and circuits for Electronics and Electrics Industry. EDUCATION & TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS Universidad del Valle de México / MBA (on going) Instituto Politécnico Nacional / Bachelor Science degree Electronics & communication Engineering. Cooper Standard (USA) / Six-Sigma Black Belt. Cooper Standard (Mex) / Six-Sigma Green Belt. Cooper Standard (USA) / Lean Manufacturing. Asprov (Mex)/ ISO/TS19649 Internal auditor.
ADDITIONAL COURSES
QSB (GM Certification),
GD&T,
Kan-Ban mix model implementation,
Pull systems,
Lean-six Sigma courses, (Black Belt and Green belt certification),
Failure Mode Analysis (FMEAS),
Manufacturing Core tools (MSA, APQP, PPAP),
Process Control (SPC),
TS16949/ ISO-9000 ver. 2000 Internal Auditor Certification,
Production process and manufacturing Cost analysis,
PC-Board Repairs and Soldering Techniques,
Word Class Manufacturing,
Lean Manufacturing,
CAD/CAM Design,
Remote Terminals connected to PC’s,
Programmable Controllers,
Value Added Management Manufacturing.
