Marcelino Garza
Sandiego
Summary
Manufacturing professional with extensive experience in overseeing production processes and enhancing operational efficiency. Known for fostering team collaboration and consistently achieving high standards, I am reliable in meeting changing demands and adept at quality assurance and process optimization. I have significant experience in transferring new products and leading the manufacturing side within the composites and sheet-metal industries. My background includes working with various manufacturing processes such as hydroforming, press braking, cold forming, and superplastic forming. I am also skilled in heat treatment of components, autoclave operations, CNC machining, paint booth operations, laser robotic perforations, multi-head drilling machines, and hardware installation. I possess extensive knowledge of best practices in lean manufacturing, including Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Takt and Cycle times, Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Ishikawa diagrams, 8D problem-solving techniques, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T). Additionally, I have experience in project management and coaching. I approach my work with responsibility and a positive attitude, maintaining an organized and objective perspective. I am proactive and always focused on achieving the desired results.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Production Manager
Collins Aerospace Systems
05.2023 - Current
- Resolved issues quickly to maintain productivity goals.
- Standardized production procedures, job roles, and quality assurance guidelines.
- Monitored team budgets to keep projects on task and avoid waste.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams for successful product launches, meeting deadlines, and staying within budget constraints.
Manufacturing Engineering Leader
Collins Aerospace Composites
01.2019 - 05.2023
- Working as a leader of multiple engineers and focusing on the analytic decisions according to the objectives of the organization, working side by side with the communication (TIERs) to have clear observations and communication between the leaders and the Eng
- Coordinated selection of manufacturing methods, fabrication, and operation of product designs.
- Developed technical documentation, including standard operating procedures, work instructions, and engineering drawings to support manufacturing operations.
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of teamwork and professional growth within the department.
- As a Leader, I work with them to have a union in our department and work as a solid team internally and later to unite the ideas with other departments with a single objective
- Challenging the Eng team to be more creative on the problem-solving turning a problem into an opportunity and use these findings as opportunities for the area.
- Working on achieving the goals of the organization and eliminating the paradigms in each of the processes, seeking continues improvements and challenging the teams to have a better process.
- Work with the transfer parts (20 Composites parts), working with the scope with both teams from Riverside to Mexicali.
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Honeywell Aerospace
11.2018 - 07.2019
- Working on the Aluminum area as a focal point using my technical expertise, estimating manufacturing cost on the new product introduction, determines time standards and makes recommendations for tooling and process requirements of new or existing product lines.
- Contributed to achieving safety targets by proactively addressing potential hazards and promoting a strong safety culture throughout the facility.
- With my sheet-metal experience, involving the team on the important tasks to reduce the defects on the area reducing the scrap percentage and having a better root-cause on the rework section.
- Managed capital projects from concept through completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget constraints.
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Doncasters
11.2017 - 10.2018
- Transition from Chula Vista CA to Tijuana B.C
- Reviewed products for compliance with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) requirements.
- On a new roll-on gas turbine, parts, working with exotic metals (Nimonic, Hyness, Hasteloy X) for high temperature function parts, having suppliers GE, PSM, & Chromalloy, creating the bill of materials, routings & providing the mechanicals the instructions for production the parts.
- Transfer Process Leader, having on my charge a production team with inspectors and quality engineers to have rousted transferring process and continue transferring parts using the CI methodology's to the products in the side of Tijuana.
- Working with the welding engineer to achieve NADCAP requirements to be certify & AS9100 quality requirements to be certify.
Manufacturing Engineer
UTC Aerospace Systems
04.2013 - 10.2017
- Working with the transition of tooling, accountability for lay-up tooling (Invar) for the cure of the acoustic panels, giving support seal and paint area working on the transition of the A320 airbus part for River Side to Mexicali.
- Responsible of documenting the process, giving production the sufficient tools for implementation of the process, installation of new equipment manufacturing process improvements, Kaizen, Cost of poor Quality, evaluate defects of production per unit, RCCA and lay-out improvements.
- In charge of a Heat Exchanger-Final Assembly Manufacturing transition from Connecticut to Mexicali facility.
- Responsible for planning, monitoring & completing schedules on time and cost effectively as required, for new product introduction and equipment installation
- Responsible for running FAI's units into the shop floor creating process design review and coordinate its shipments with Production Control and Customs dept's.
- Daily working and communication with customer and suppliers, working side by side with the project engineer on the passport process FAI-P3-P4
- Experience exposing directly to VP's, Director's and General Manager.
- Hands On experience on cold forming process for air fins for Heat Exchangers detail fabrications, punch press for tube plates
- Hydro Forming and press brake for aero structure brackets made of aluminum and stainless steel
- Coordinating tooling activities (shop aid, serialized tooling modification etc.), helping manufacturing activities, creating fixtures to eliminate discrepancy on the shopfloor.
Education
Master's Degree - Hight Direction Major
Universidad Del Valle De Mexico
12-2022
Bachelor of Engineering - Graduated With Honors
Mechatronic Engineering
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico01-2013
Project Management - Seminary
Cetys Universidad
Mexicali, BC03-2023
MS Project Training -
Cetys Universidad
Mexicali, BC04-2022
GD&T -
Cetys Universidad
Mexicali, BC03-2019
Certification - Aerospace Repair Analysis And Substantiation ER-1
Abaris Training
Reno Nevada 03-2020
Certification - Advanced Composite Structures: Fabrication & Damag
Abaris Training
Reno Nevada 06-2019
Skills
- Process Improvement
- 5S methodology
- Process Development
- Risk Assessment
- Production Monitoring
- Cost-reduction strategies
- Team Leadership
- Operations Management
software
- MICROSOFT OFFICE
- MS PROJECT
- SAP
- AUTO-CAD / CATIA
- TEAM CENTER
- PILGRIM
- VIA-SEARCH
- UGS NX 6.0 (CNC)
- MINITAB
- EPICOR
Personal Information
- Age: 33
- Date of Birth: 07/15/91
- Marital Status: Married
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 6 staff members.
- Trained and supervised 6 production staff time period.
Languages
Spanish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Production Manager
Collins Aerospace Systems
05.2023 - Current
Manufacturing Engineering Leader
Collins Aerospace Composites
01.2019 - 05.2023
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Honeywell Aerospace
11.2018 - 07.2019
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Doncasters
11.2017 - 10.2018
Manufacturing Engineer
UTC Aerospace Systems
04.2013 - 10.2017
Master's Degree - Hight Direction Major
Universidad Del Valle De Mexico
Bachelor of Engineering - Graduated With Honors
Mechatronic Engineering
Project Management - Seminary
Cetys Universidad
MS Project Training -
Cetys Universidad
GD&T -
Cetys Universidad
Certification - Aerospace Repair Analysis And Substantiation ER-1
Abaris Training
Certification - Advanced Composite Structures: Fabrication & Damag
Abaris Training
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