Amanda Estrada

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Quality Staff Manager - Customer Liaison at GE

  • Education

    • Texas a&m university-kingsville

      2008 - 2011
      Bachelor of science (b.s.) architectural engineering

      Activities and Societies: Delta Phi Epsilon Chi Epsilon Society of Women Engineers, President Engineering Student Council Chi Epsilon Honor Society Member TAMUK Javelina Sapphire Dance Team

    • The university of texas at el paso

      2020 - 2021
      Master of science - ms construction management
    • Del mar college

      2006 - 2008
      Associate of arts (a.a.) liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities

      Activities and Societies: SEMMO: Science, Engineering, & Math Majors Organization

  • Experience

    • Kiewit

      Apr 2012 - May 2022

      - Develop and implement a successful project quality program based upon contract requirements and company quality standards.- Directly supervise and manage inspection and testing personnel.- Develop positive and trustworthy relationships with the client.- Provide technical expertise, troubleshooting and solutions for quality issues.- Ensure proper documentation and recordkeeping is performed, validated and easily retrievable through audits.- Promote and enforce quality processes with the goal of performing work right the first time.- Communicate quality control information to all relevant organizational departments, outside vendors, or contractors.- Ensure that all non-conformance work is properly reported, tracked and documented.- Research, read and interpret construction plans, standards and specifications.- Assist with the development of root cause analysis.- Personally meet deadlines and contribute in a positive, safe, professional and high-quality project. Show less - Provide technical expertise, troubleshooting and solutions for traceability issues. - Ensure proper documentation and recordkeeping is performed, validated and easily retrievable for client-directed audit across 5+ projects simultaneously. - Develop and implement successful project NDE & material trace matrices based upon contract requirements and company quality standards. - Manage and lead a team of 20+ direct-report employees. - Maintain as-builts and develop MRB/ turnover packages for project close out. Show less - Plan, organize and implement construction project engineering functions, including: project controls system, engineering interface, subcontracts and materials management, purchasing and warehousing. - Manage functions and assist the lead engineer or site manager; and assist project management in expediting material deliveries, estimating development and analyzing budget for large industrial construction projects. - Process change orders. - Review shop drawings. - Examine/inspect field conditions and identify problems, inaccuracies, and cost saving measures that arise. - Develop and maintain the project master schedule using Critical Path Method (CPM) (P6), - Perform quality control and quality assurance process/execution in field operations. -Perform safety audit processes utilizing Advanced Safety Audit processes (ASA). Show less - Perform engineering work in connection with large-scale construction projects.- Perform engineering tasks requiring standard techniques and handling minor problems of a technical nature arising during construction.- Maintain records as required regarding job progress, costs, material usage, etc.- Assist in planning and scheduling of job and/or job segments.- Investigate problems and/or reported incidents; identify and recommend solutions/alternatives as appropriate.- Review plans and specifications to determine material requirements (quantities and qualities), pricing of materials, etc.- Work with suppliers as required facilitating the handling and expediting delivery of materials. Show less

      • Project Quality Manager

        Aug 2019 - May 2022
      • Quality Manager- Traceability

        Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
      • Engineer II

        Sept 2013 - Jan 2017
      • Engineer I

        Apr 2012 - Sept 2013
    • Ge

      May 2022 - now
      Senior quality staff manager - customer liaison

      •Establish and ensure the implementation of the Project Quality Plan•Organize Project gate reviews•Drive the implementation of the Quality Strategy to optimize the use of resources consistent with the overall targets and established objectives•Define and ensure the implementation of the Project Inspection & Test Plans •Coordinate the delivery of the Quality Contractual Documentation as per the Project Document Delivery Schedule•Analyze Non-Conformity Reports (NCRs), and ensure that corrective and preventive actions are defined and applied•Ensure that Return of Experience of similar projects is taken into account.•Recommend, request and implement actions for improvement to prevent non-conformities and improve process performance.•Measures, analyses and reports Project KPI's (NCR, CopQ, CC, ECN's)•Customer Quality Interface•Quality Voice of Customer•Agree with Customer the Project Inspection & Test Plans•Point of contact of customer for all queries and demands in terms of quality•Organizes, coordinates and allocates resources to support the customer quality inspections at GE facilities and subcontractors•Analyses and follows the Customer Complaints•Follows up the project critical NCRs and ensures no affection to final customer•Project certification •Point of contact of the project certifier•Coordinates the activities of project certification (inspections, documentation delivery...) with concerned department (Engineering, Manufacturing, Suppliers, Installation, Commissioning) Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified manager of quality/organizational excellence (cmq/oe)

      Asq - world headquarters
      Jan 2020
    • Asnt ndt level ii certification - visual testing (asnt-ndt2-vt)

      Asnt (the american society for nondestructive testing)
    • Certified quality auditor (cqa)

      Asq - world headquarters
      Oct 2019