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Alejandro Rico Quintero

Alejandro Rico Quintero

Torreón, Coahuila

Summary

Experienced engineering manager and operations with expertise in lean manufacturing and six sigma decision-making, with over 18 years of experience in Textile and Automobile Industries, enforcing manufacturing process control and skills on team driving execution, team building and motivating coming from production management positions. Committed to rapidly and efficiently completing projects by leveraging team-based frameworks to best leverage available engineering talent.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Kontoor Brands
Torreon
01.2021 - Current
  • Improved engineering processes over 5 production facilities denim process Wrangler & Lee, (2.5K operators, volume of 360K/weekly garments) assuring lowest operation cost driving 9 plant process engineers on cost reduction projects through DMAIC & PFMEA, volume forecasting, footprint optimization, equipment installation, process efficiency improvement through time study, rating and method review, responsible of new product cost and process installation achieving designer expectation
  • Responsible for assuring incentive payment system to operators and process KPIs Quality & production.
  • Enhanced overall team productivity with continuous training and mentoring of junior engineers.

Sr Manager Operational Excellence

Kontoor Brands
Torreon, MX
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Established continues improvement structure and problem-solving process standardization through DMAIC, Kaizen & A3 methodology on 12 facilities (Mexico & Nicaragua), driving green belt project strategy to get engineering and management members certifications.

Plant Manager Sewing & Cutting Process

Kontoor Brands
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Managed operations for 550 operators achieving production volume and shipping on time, driving production, quality, maintenance and HR departments.

Plant Process Engineer Sewing & cutting process

Kontoor Brands
01.2011 - 01.2015
  • Improved process optimization getting lowest waste of material utilization level on history of Kontoor internal manufacturing using DMAIC and PFMEA methodology, streamlined workflow processes for increased productivity-.

New Product Launch Engineer Safety Airbags

TAKATA Corporation
01.2006 - 01.2011
  • Successfully developed and launched over 20 new programs of airbags (cutting, sewing & module assembly process) through PFMEA & PPAP, achieving customer timing satisfaction and product quality assurance
  • Multiple programs developed on Asia and installed on Mexico, led strategy at Japan to Mexico Toyota & Nissan customers, product costing and process design achieving customer timeline.

Process Engineer

TAKATA Corporation
  • Responsible for engineering support to 6 sewing & module assembly lines, Toyota & Subaru airbag products, takt time process definition based on demand and quality assurance line process trough poka-yoke and DMAIC guidelines.

Production supervisor

TAKATA Corporation
  • Responsible for running 5 airbags sewing production lines 100 operators assuring production and quality KPIS

Education

Bachelor of Industrial Engineering -

ITESO
05.2005

Languages

Spanish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)

Skills

  • Lean Manufacturing and Quality Systems
  • Operations Management
  • Team Leadership

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Kontoor Brands
01.2021 - Current

Sr Manager Operational Excellence

Kontoor Brands
01.2019 - 01.2021

Plant Manager Sewing & Cutting Process

Kontoor Brands
01.2016 - 01.2018

Plant Process Engineer Sewing & cutting process

Kontoor Brands
01.2011 - 01.2015

New Product Launch Engineer Safety Airbags

TAKATA Corporation
01.2006 - 01.2011

Process Engineer

TAKATA Corporation

Production supervisor

TAKATA Corporation

Bachelor of Industrial Engineering -

ITESO

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