Maria Alcántar Sepúlveda

Executive Managing Director

Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico

About

Utilize my management and personal skills based on my professional and academic experiences to capitalize on areas of opportunity thus achieving short and medium term goals in a stable company that offers future growth. I am a natural leader, with a quick analytical mind, who enjoys troubleshooting and new challenges. I am a great planner and an effective communicator. Thanks to my skills, experience in the field, formal education, and dedicated hard work, I find ways to increase efficiency and profits. I have strong values: loyal, committed, versatile, responsible and reliable. I am a results-focus and teamwork person . Also I am very flexible with different styles of leadership. I develop my work with passion and a vision of continuous improvement. •Experience in Lean Manufacturing: 5S´s , Visual Control (SQDC), Standard Work, Problem Solving & PokaYoke; Skill Matrix, Safety & Ergonomics; TPM, SMED /Set - up Reduction , Process/Material Flow (Takt Time), •Extensive Expertise in processes: cutting and tube bending, welding, stamping, painting, enamel, foaming, thermoforming, phosphatized, plastic injection, metalizing, blow molding and Materials Inspection: Metallography, mechanical testing, chemical and dimensional tests.

Experience

  • Grneral Manager Morgan Advanced Materiaks at Morgan Advanced Materials
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

  • General Manager at American BOA México
    Jul 2022 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Executive Coaching Vaughn Manufacturing Mexico Celaya, Gto at Vaughn Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    May 2022 - Jul 2022 · 3 mos

    • ISO 9000 Recertification • Leadership Executive Coaching

  • Plant Manger at Novem Group
    Oct 2021 - Apr 2022 · 7 mos

    Products: Trim elements and decorative function elements Main Clients: BMW, MBUSI, Audi, Honda, Ford, GM + tier II Industry type: Automotive Manufacturing Processes: Stamping, Plastic Injection, Painting, Sanding, Polishing Assembly • Built foundation for manufacturing Operation of Excellence (Main KPI´s, GEMBA, 5 S´s , Safety always , Quality first ) • Kaizen events implementation -2 per month • Improve 30 % of Production performance in the most critical area.

  • Executive Managing Director at Elring Klinger Mexico SA de CV
    Sep 2017 - Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    General Managing Director in charge of 4 Business Units : • Turn around in Toluca Plant • GPTW Oct 2021 • Q1 recovery – Oct 2021 • Nissan Supplier Award – Oct 2021 • EKOS Worldwide award of Elring Klinger Group 2019, EKOS Worldwide for Scrap performance + Kaizen events+ SMED in K Line in 2020 • Recover the credibility of investors, clients and our highly demotivated internal staff . • Eliminate plant capacity problems by expediting backward investments of machines, • Build foundations for a Manufacturing Operation of Excellence for all 4 BUs through • Dramatically safety improvement from 968 accidents to more than 1 year without any accident. • Improve Customer satisfaction: o Capacity constraint – Restructuring lay out project 100 % on time without plant shutdown o Back Log improvement from 367,919 pieces to Zero BL in 2020 o 89 % Premium Freight reduction o 70% Customer Complaints reduction using Fast response. o 46% sorting cost reduction o 58 % Scrap reduction • Absenteeism reduction from 10% to 0.4 % • Fluctuation rate from 10% to 0.4 % • Continuous improvement: 2 kaizen week events per month • Implement Production basics + GEMBA Walks • Improve 5 S’s from 70 % to 93%. 4 levels of improvement.