Juan Enrique Juarez Reyes
Mexicali, Baja
Summary
Product Engineering Team Leader Experienced Mechanical Designer serving Automotive, Metal mechanical, and Plastic Industries. Volcano of ideas and innovation with over 20 years of combined experience developing products by machining, forging, plastic molding, die casting, sheet metal and assembly processes. Experienced as tool & die maker and designer. Excellent reputation resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements. Consistently saving costs while increasing profits. Always ready to learn new things and share technical expertise to engineered better products.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Applications Engineering Technical Leader
Accuride International
05.2021 - Current
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, suppliers, manufacturing, testing, and validation teams on the complete life cycle of the project through product launch, and implementation of lessons learned on subsequent products
- Collaborated with Head Quarters R&D Team in the new products development
- Defined and analyzed metrics to measure product performance since the product conceptualization using tools such as DFA, DFM, FEA, DVP&R, GD&T and DFSS
- Coached engineers to improve their project execution leveraging their technical skills
- Achievements:
- Collaborated with global team to develop and launch three new products on time and within budget for Asian and North American markets
- Exceeded by 124% the overall expectations as a Technical Leader in the first year
- Approved 18 new molds fabrication for plastic and die casting parts based on analytical models.
Product Design Engineer
Accuride International
06.2016 - 04.2021
- Worked with cross-functional internal and external teams
- Generated and reviewed 2D, 3D, and analytical models
- Designed die-casting, sheet metal and plastic parts
- Designed mechanical equipment for product validation stage
- Created Bills of Materials (BOM), manufacturing routing processes and product cost estimation
- Performed stack-up tolerance analysis to ensure success in high-volume manufacturing
- Prototyped new concepts
- Validated new products per DVP&R testing definition
- Achievements:
- Managed and executed 2 new products for global customers gaining contracts for 7 years and earned 20% of annual profits
- Assure lifetime product warranty improving performance of existent components.
Machinery Design Engineer
VJ Plastik
09.2014 - 02.2016
- Supported to machinists and mold-makers to solve process issues
- DFA, DFM, FEA, DVP&R, GD&T and DFSS
- Improved two injection molding machine designs using stack-up tolerance analysis
- Designed modular mechanical systems for Injection Molding Machines
- Managed day-by-day workshop operations and made strategic decisions to coordinate cross-functional teams
- Trained operational teams about Engineering Drawings Interpretation
- Achievements:
- Saved 40% of annual raw material investment implementing improvement design initiatives and creating fresh new approaches to long-standing problems
- Sales increased 30% after customer complaints mitigated through improved products.
Founder/Senior Design Engineer
INSITEC
09.2010 - 09.2014
- Interacted with project leaders and stakeholders to define requirements to comply customer needs
- Led project scheduling and budgeting to successfully and quickly complete engineering projects
- Provided exceptional engineering service experience for forge tool design, die casting mold design, plastic mold design, high speed die design, fixture design and machinery design projects
- Trained Engineers using Pro/engineer CAD
- Supported customer engineering design through analysis and simulation of prototypes and computer models
- Generated and reviewed 2D, 3D, and analytical models
- DFA, DFM, FEA, GD&T and tolerance analysis
- Achievements:
- Increased sales by 25% for engineering services
- Engaged strongly with customers engineering teams remaining good relationship and an exceptional customer experience.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business And Manufacturing
Universidad Del Valle De Mexico
Mexicali07.2026
Associate of Science - Machine Tool Technology
Bernardo Quintana Arrioja
Estado De Mexico02.2002
Skills
- Integrity
- Responsibility
- Adaptive capacity
- Teamwork
- Compromising
- Analytical skills
- Flexibility
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Brainstorming
- Pro/Engineer
- Solidworks
- Creo Parametric
- Inventor
- AutoCAD
- Nastran
- MS Office
- MS Project
- Manufacturing Processes
- Technical Support
- Improve Processes
- Waste Reduction
- Compliance Issues
- Engineering Documentation
- Root Cause Failure Investigation
- Team Meetings
- Manufacturability Improvements
- Corrective Action Activities
- Product Design Review
- Innovation and Creativity
- Estimate Costs
- Machine Tool Technologies
Additional Information
- SEP License ID 4770406
Timeline
Applications Engineering Technical Leader
Accuride International
05.2021 - Current
Product Design Engineer
Accuride International
06.2016 - 04.2021
Machinery Design Engineer
VJ Plastik
09.2014 - 02.2016
Founder/Senior Design Engineer
INSITEC
09.2010 - 09.2014
Bachelor of Science - Business And Manufacturing
Universidad Del Valle De Mexico
Associate of Science - Machine Tool Technology
Bernardo Quintana Arrioja
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