Romania
Extensive experience in the automotive industry with proven expertise in quality, project execution, and launch management. Successfully managed programs for OEMs including BMW, Daimler, Toyota, Stellantis, and Renault, ensuring on-time launches, compliance with quality standards, and engineering change management. Currently a Launch Manager, driving cross-functional collaboration to deliver efficient, high-quality product introductions. Strong interest in advancing within quality, project management, and implementation roles.
Lead cross-functional project teams to ensure successful and timely product launches from prototype through SOP (Start of Production). Ensure alignment of resources and priorities across departments to achieve launch objectives on time and within budget. Define and coordinate project timelines, milestones, and deliverables to align with customer and internal expectations. Serve as the primary interface between internal departments (engineering, production, quality, logistics) and the customer during launch phases. Manage risk assessments, identify potential issues early, and implement mitigation plans to safeguard project deliverables. Ensure product and process readiness through structured launch reviews, readiness audits, and status reports. Drive problem-solving activities (8D, root cause analysis, etc.) related to launch-phase issues, coordinating actions with all involved parties. Support process validation, run-at-rate, and PPAP activities to secure customer approval and production readiness. Report regularly on launch status to management and escalate risks when necessary, maintaining transparency throughout the organization. Track and verify the correct implementation of project-related changes, ensuring alignment with change management procedures and documentation requirements.
- Responsible for the Change Management tasks within the projects - Provided pivotal support in product launch management, contributing to successful SOPs - Part of new project lunch team - Maintain the complaint, nonconformity, and corrective action procedure using records and tracking systems, including root-cause analysis - Managed diverse deadlines for critical activities including implementing corrective actions and changes at both internal and external suppliers, ensuring timely and efficient operations - Define quality assurance activities with internal reporting and audits - First sample reports - Performing detailed analysis of returned customer parts and use the findings in order to drive and implement Corrective and Preventative Action improvements - Led cross-functional teams through the rigorous 8D process, effectively identifying root causes of failures and implementing sustainable solutions - Provided concise weekly/monthly reports on scrap, PPM, costs, etc., offering key insights for strategic decision-making - Applying quality tools such as Pareto analysis, 5 why, Ishikawa, PFMEA etc. - Utilized the 8D form proficiently to address and resolve customer claims, ensuring swift and satisfactory resolutions - Orchestrated preparations for and successfully navigated customer audits by leading teams for BMW, TOYOTA, and STELLANTIS, ensuring compliance and positive outcomes - Managing weekly customer meetings: project evolution reporting
- Managing the Quality team; - Quality planning for all product fazes: samples/o series/ series; - Quality assurance for the assembly lines; - Keeping the PPM in the established target; - Verification and approving of the work instruction; - Processing the clients complaints by filling 8D reports using quality tools: Ishikawa, 5WHY?, PDCA; - Making complaints to the suppliers for the raw materials; - first sample/ 0 series approval; - Establishing tasks for the quality inspectors in order to offer a quality control for the entire production; - Involved in providing the necessary documentation for the PPAP; - Preparing and sustaining clients audits; - Product audits;
- Quality assurance for the production lines; - PPM target responsible; - Creating/editing work instructions and control plans; - Personnal training based on the new or modified documentation; - Creating visual aids in order to increase the awearness of the operators regarding the impact of failures, for the client; - Initiation and following the status for both corective and preventive actions and their effectivness ; - Weekly management feedback; - Monthly Internal layer audits; - Preparing and sustaining the client audits: - SAP transactions;
- Taken quality assurance initiatives across production lines, ensuring adherence to quality standards. - Held accountability as the PPM target lead, driving efforts to achieve and surpass quality benchmarks. - Developed, refined, and updated work instructions and control plans, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in operations. - Conducted comprehensive personnel training based on updated or new documentation. - Created visual aids to enhance operator awareness of failure impacts on client deliverables, maintaining a culture of quality consciousness. - Initiated, monitored, and assessed the effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions, ensuring swift resolution and sustained quality improvements. - Provided regular management feedback on quality-related metrics and improvements, contributing to continuous enhancement of processes. - Conducted monthly Internal Layer Audits, ensuring compliance with quality protocols. - Prepared meticulously for and navigated client audits. - Proficiently managed SAP quality-related transactions.