Ignacio Manuel Juarez Herrera

Ignacio Manuel Juarez Herrera is a growth-oriented and highly talented leader with a strong background in industrial manufacturing specializing in anodizing and powder coating aluminum, continuous process improvements, root cause analysis and quality management. With 28 years of experience in the industrial manufacturing domain as well as excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to motivate a work force to accomplish the organizations key performance goals.

• An Experienced team leader with the ability to initiate/manage cross functional teams and multidisciplinary projects to deliver cost reduction using lean manufacturing concepts
• Analyze Data to evaluate issues and determine recommendations for business improvement
• Analytical thinking, decision making and problem-solving skills
• Strategic planning, execution, organizing and extensive business management skills
• Excellent personnel communication skills
• Project Management skills: Influencing, leading, negotiating and delegating abilities
• Conflict resolution, adaptability and tolerant to stress situations

• Managing recipes for an automated anodizing line which constitute in standardizing different types of coatings, setting current densities and recipes for different electrolytic (two-step) color finishes
• Racking techniques/designs for different aluminum profiles
• Managing recipes for an automated shot-blast machine to have a flow line free matte finish
• Anodizing line trouble shooting
• Set up quality standards according to AAMA
• Strong Managerial skills ability to adapt to any situation

• Always improve production output
• Improve quality to keep customers happy
• Improve rejections/scrap to reduce company costs
• Continuous training improvement of staff to develop honest and professional staff within the organization

• Merit Aluminum (over a decade)
• ABC Aluminum 3 years

Fluent English & Spanish