Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States
Experienced Plant Vehicle Engineering Lead with more than 10 Years of Automotive Industry experience in manufacturing facility. Managed a salary staff of 18 composed of Product Quality Engineers. Demonstrated strong technical problem-solving skills, data analysis, experience in production launch, and quality systems/warranty reduction. Accredited with a World Class Manufacturing Systems, Shainin Greenbelt Certified, Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering. My ability to thrive in a high paced environment have been driven by my commitment and passion for excellence.
● Responsible for supervising and developing multiple Product Quality Engineers to support assembly plant, continuous improvement, addressing non-conformities and achieving internal/external KPIs ● Direct supervision of PVEs and Incoming Quality Engineers (IQREs) including interviewing, hiring decisions, onboarding, training, Payroll, Performance and Leadership Management (PLM). ● Responsible for coordination of Product changes, new model launches and quality improvement for all components and systems of Electrical, Chassis, and Powertrain (PT) ● Resolving systemic/chronic and major quality issues including warranty, Customer Quality Insight (CQI), JD Power, Recalls, Rapid Response Transmittals (RRT), maintaining issue stratification, driving corrective actions and escalations. ● Supporting Internal KPIs including First Time Quality, First Time Capability, Customer Product Audit, Vehicle Layout, representing Voice of the Customer within Assembly Plant ● Performing critical Yard Hold/Product Related Issue (PRI) activities to ensure vehicle quality, mitigation of risks and timely release of units ● Collaborating and leading teams with Process Quality, Plant Process Reliability Manager to ensure that control plans are implemented and maintained (i.e. Driven by Standards, Process Flow, PFMEA, Control Plans requirements, AM/PM Schedules, measurement/visibility). ● Collaborating and coordinating internal and external resources to achieve project timeline. ● Deployment of PVE development and training via Tech Club, sharing best practices and lessons learned from Reactive, Proactive and Preventive actions and projects ● Supporting World Class Manufacturing Quality and Customer Safety Pillar as well as co-lead for People Development Pillar. ● Responsible for addressing behavior and performance issues through standardized FCA processes / procedure
● Responsible for technical problem solving chronic issues regarding containment, root cause analysis, and establish corrective actions serving as the subject matter expert within the manufacturing facility. ● Coordinated production evaluation runs (PERs) and change notice (CN) implementation for product/process improvements ● Supported product design intent and function while supporting with resolution of daily production issues and solutions of manufacturing constraints. ● Responsible for expert technical leadership in coordinating and directing cross functional teams in the application of quality initiatives along with launch of a new vehicle ● Provided advanced problem-solving expertise to correct unfavorable variances and communicate alternative solutions to mitigate engineering, timing and/or financial issues. ● Identified risks associated with product designs, processes, applying best practices, lessons learned, and assisted in the generation of FMEA's and associated Control Plans. ● Developed, Supervised and performed direct rework/repair methods and processes in compliance with engineering standards.
● Ensured an exceptional level of product quality for the customer at launch and throughout the product life cycle – exceeding customer expectations as measured in 3 months in service warranty. ● Performed quality improvements for minivan as driven by third party sources and warranty claims submitted by the dealer network ● Responsible for JD Power Survey annual data analysis and focused on improving results year over year by forecasting based on corrective actions and systematic initiatives ● Managed cross-functionally and possessed a broad knowledge of the entire automotive engineering, manufacturing, and quality landscape.
● Developed data analytics including mining, generation, and visualization, and committed to transforming data into readable, goal-driven reports ● Responsible for enhancement of data collection, analysis, working with multiple systems to acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems ● Analyzed large, complex data sets to identify trends and recommend action aligned to business objectives; experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets and forecasting data trends