Mara Medrano

Experience

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  Burner Systems International

  Mar 2005 - Jan 2009

  Quality Improvement Engineer

  Leader of the quality system and continuous improvement strategy.Accomplishments: support to USA and Cd. Juárez plants to achieve the ISO 9001 certification, coordination of the Kaizen events and lean manufacturing activities, lead of the main project to improve the ergonomic and efficiency changing the production line to manufacturing cells (Savings for 200K USD in headcount and 65K in scrap), Six sigma and lean trainer.

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  GEA Group

  Feb 2009 - May 2010

  Quality Assurance Manager

  Administration of the quality assurance process for Bundles manufacturing plant at Celaya and Cooling towers at San Luis Potosí.Accomplishments: Debugging of new machinery and confirm the process capability before start of production, implementation and certification of ISO 9001:2008 on both facilities, certification of ASME code for pressure vessels at Celaya plant, welders and welding procedures qualifications according ASME codes, NDT implementation for welding process validation.Safe Launch project in site (NY USA, Durango MX, CHINA) Show less

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  Whirlpool Corporation

  Jan 2011 - Sept 2015

  Field Quality Manager

  Quality assurance administration, from incoming inspection to field customer monitoring performance for ranges, fridges and washers home appliances products.Accomplishments: Service incident rate reduction from 9% to 1.5% improving the customer satisfaction, supplier PPAP full approval for 120 new components, leader of the control parameter management (SPC) in real time for critical process and characteristics), scrap reduction for 50K USD in the enamel process and success administration of 3 test and metrology laboratories. Core tools management. Show less

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  HERE Technologies

  Sept 2015 - Sept 2016

  Manager Quality

  Leader of the quality area in the León production center, supplier management, continuous improvement and problem-solving activities (8D, A3) and KPI Management.Accomplishments: Definition of the strategy to reduce the total cost of quality through all the organization. Six sigma projects management to improve the organizational KPI performance.

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  Hutchinson Seal de Mexico,S.A. de C.V.

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2017

  Supplier Quality

  Leader of the supplier quality activities, including the new product introduction including pass through with OEM, engineering changes, monthly performance monitoring and the continuous improvement strategy with suppliers. APQP Management for new programs, gage design validation, run and rates and tooling.Quality systems: ISO TS 16949, BIQS, VDA 6.3 Accomplishments: Supplier full approval for pass though components (FORD, GM), supplier development improvement with Asia locations, reducing the PPM´s impact and OEM complaint´s. Show less

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  YACHIYO MEXICO MANUFACTURING SA DE CV

  Jul 2017 - May 2021

  Quality A. Manager

  Quality assurance Manager for fuel tank and sunroof manufacturing process, defined the quality control plans for safety components, KPI management, personal administration and direct contact with the OEM, test laboratory administration.Accomplishments: Lead of IATF 16949:2016 transition and certification achieved on December 2017 and supplier relocation strategy, Core Tools Management.

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  Emz Hanauer de México S.A. de C.V.

  May 2021 - Dec 2024

  Quality and Project Manager

  Administration of the quality control process for the SMT, plastic injection and assembly of electronic components for the home appliance industry. Administration of supplier management, quality control process, test life and metrology laboratory, deployment of problem-solving techniques, personnel management, and quality system.Responsable of the APQP, New projects and engineering changes.Accomplishments: ISO 9001:2015 recertification, cost of non-quality impact reduction in PPM´s in 95%, Scrap and rework in 50% and a strategy for people development was implemented to improve the analysis and quality skills in the operative areas. Reinforcement of the core tools FMEA, APQP, SPC and MSA for new and mass production projects and implementation of VDA 6.3 for process audit. Show less

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  Schneider Electric

  Dec 2024 - now

  Customer Satisfaction & Quality Manager