Experience

CRH (C. Rob. Hammerstein)

• Germany
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Assurance Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Present



Dana Incorporated

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Specialist

  • Jun 2014 - Apr 2021

  RESPONSIBILITIES Establish and manage professional customer rapport to drive solutions to attain business needs. Ensure accreditation and compliance with the International Standards, statutory,regulatory, customer specific requirements.. Comply all activities with corporate policies as well as departmental procedures to reduce risk and losses. Provide support for the design, execution and maintenance of quality system processes at respective departments. HIGHLIGHTS - Orchestrated strategic alignment through business plan integration - Established a best in European region LPA program - Initiated and coordinated the plant location based documentation system. Integrated this with the global Cpro document control system. - Administered the ISO/TS16949 re-certifcation process after certification retraction. - Transformed the audit management program and established a auditor development and monitoring system. Reduced the audit score from 40 (11 Majors) to 7 (No majors). - Redesigned the core tool review process into a 4 step, data based risk management tool (document alignment, Data review, Reverse FMEA and RPN reduction) - Improved the product verification process (gauging, first-off and in process verification). - Developed a 4 tier supplier development process and integrated it into the receiving inspection process - Formulated an poka yoke assessment framework based on the design, operation and maintenance of Poka Yoke devices - Coordinated the IATF Transition project, as well as IQB (Isuzu) and Ford Q1 certification projects - Restructured the Change Management process and integrated it with the organisational global process. - Designed the Integrated Business Risk Management Program - Contributed to the overall reduction of PPM from 252 in 2013 to 14 in 2019 (94% Reduction) Show less



Autocast

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Manager

  • Aug 2012 - Jun 2014

  RESPONSIBILITIES Responsible for maintaining all aspects of the site Quality Management System. Supervising all regulatory compliance activities and helping to enforce quality assurance policies and best practice principals covering the product full life cycle from design, production and aftermarket. HIGHLIGHTS - Enhanced the Audit Program (system and VDA based process audits) and introduced LPA audits with focus on in process parameter verification. - Initiated the critical process parameter live data management system (SPC Control chart format) and integrated this to the core tool process. - Promoted a continuous improvement (stop and fix) culture and contributed to a 19% improvement in scrap in 2 years - Effected Cost Saving improvements on the VW24 line of R250k pa in the oiling process. Show less