Armando Levario Ortiz

Experience

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  Continental

  Aug 2005 - Jul 2007

  Ingeniero de Calidad

  To keep quality and production of five “Idle Air Control Valve” lines as required from the clients by teamwork and leadership; Supervise and analyze quality according to customer specifications using APQP basis, to develop and update Control Plan and PPAP according to customer requirements, to develop quality planning, to develop action plan for corrective and preventive actions, to apply problem solving techniques; Leadership and teamwork of quality issues in production lines; coordinate visual aids elaboration of quality criteria; develop and coordinate activities related to customer complains; supervise and lead assigned personnel; supervise every product and process liberation; supervise SPC; realize process audits; control of production process; leadership in production team meetings (PPQI); Design of experiments; contact with customers and quality related departments; SQM support and teamwork with suppliers issues; leadership and coordination of preventive and corrective actions with customers; participation in quality inspectors training and certification. Customers: Honda, Daihatsu, Nissan, Izuzu, Zuzuki, Ford, GM, Renault, Mercedes Benz, and BMW. Show less

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  BRP

  Jul 2007 - Dec 2012

  Quality Senior Engineer

  Manage of Metalurgic laboratory, Metrology Laboratory, Incoming Inspection, and Calibration Lab. Also definition of engine line quality system.

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  Industrias BM de Mexico

  Mar 2012 - Dec 2013

  Senior Quality Engineer

  Organize the department to focus on each of the three functions of the department, coordinating the five teams.• Coordinating with SQE’s the problems follow up by developing a system of regular meetings.• Prioritize the material issues to focus on the more critic by safety, frequency, and detectability.• Cross dock incoming inspection.• Optimization of inspection plans and frequency of inspection, reducing a 70% to focus on critical defects• Implementation of Problem solving in the Quality Department.• Control of PPAP samples system reducing the parts in line without acceptation or deviation from 10 parts to 0 in pilot runs.• Keep the Coordinates Measuring Machines upgraded• Daily programming achievements from 60% to 100%• TPM TA in labs implementation• Reduce of cost of calibrations from $340,000.00 to 215,000• Reduction of lost lots from 10 weekly to 0 by tracking the time since the material arrived to receiving Show less

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  Maximatecc

  Dec 2013 - Jun 2017

  Power Packer/GITS manufacturing Quality Manager

  Lead all the Quality activities in Power Packer and GITS manufacturing Juarez Plant.Maintain Quality Manual updated. Lead internal audits. Lead ISO TS 9000:16949 Audits. Follow up on Customer complains.

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  Actuant Corporation

  Dec 2013 - Jun 2017

  Quality Manager

  Quality ManagerManagement of Quality department (for business units Power Packer and GITS). ISO TS certification. Responsible of Quality System Update. Support in solving problems on extruding process. Lead the Quality department. Follow up on Customer issues under TS 16949 normativity like Mercedes, Webasto (Corvette), Magna, Camaro, Caterpillar, Honeywell, John Deere, Mack, Paccar, valves for NASA, and other oilers and air valves. Follow up on Warranties. Lead Control of Quarantine warehouse. Leadership on Incoming department. Leadership on Suppliers quality issues. Process layered audits, Leader of Internal audits under TS 16949 rules. Coordinates Gemba walks with the core team for each Customer complaint.Responsibilities:• Incoming department coordinator, system to focus in the important dimensions and critical part numbers reducing the Incoming receipts form 100% to 5% with a trend to eliminate Incoming and reducing suppliers PPM’s from 750 to 20 PPM’s.• Coordinate the Reduction to 0 internal PPM’s by creating system First Piece/Last Piece inspection.• Reduction of external PPM’s from 1340 to 252 by applying efficient corrective actions and marketing with colleagues in other plants.• Created close relation with customers by visiting them and organizing frequent phone meetings.• Created and coordinator of weekly meetings with engineering staff and other sites about Quality issues in order to reduce potential issues in all sites.Quality EngineerCustomer Quality responsible, maintaining customer’s portals updated. PPAP’s preparation, Supplier’s issues follow up.Main Accomplishments:• Achieved close communication with IOWA Gits engineering department.• Improved communication with customers by using customers’ portals.• Reduced Quarantine warehouse from 26,000 to 500 USD• Coordinated with engineering to update of over 100 P/N’s components drawings.• Transfer of CAT, Honeywell lines quality systems. Show less

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  Foster Electric

  Feb 2018 - now

  • Foster Electric (USA), Inc.

    Feb 2018 - now

  • Environmental Systems Coordinator

    Feb 2018 - now