Turgut Kaptan

Experience

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  Ford Otosan

  Dec 2011 - now

  ✔ Managed new custom body line commisioning and automation projects including mechanical and electrical installation of 850 welding robots and 410 conveyors with my maintenance team and subcontractor companies. ✔Lead maintenance activities through the body shop with 10 engineers and 250 maintenance operators on a daily basis respecting volumes, times, safety and quality parameters and costs .✔ Responsible for ensuring all machines, equipments and automation systems at the production line are functionable. ✔ Lead TPM and Industry 4.0 activities throgh the body shop ✔Troubleshooting of failures on systems, analyze the downtimes and take preventive actions in a very fast paced environment .✔ Lead renovation and automaiton projects with a 8.000.000€ yearly budget ✔ Lead Maintenance budget ,10.000.000 € per year.✔ Responsible for quality management in accordance with Ford standards .✔ Planner of the needs for spare parts of equipments and consumables.✔ Lead energy and water consumption in the body shop and make cost reduction projects regarding energy consumption.✔ Experineced in people management of maintenance team with strong leadership and people skills including communication, collaboration and empathy . ✔ Thrived my management competencies in a very fast-paced environment with multiple changing priorities simultaneously more in this position . Show less ✔Working as a representative of Plant Manager in shifts.✔Production takes place in the targeted number and quality at the least possible cost and that the vehicles put into production are delivered to the customers as soon as possible. Manages the sustainability of production according to the set goals. It contributes to its development by closely monitoring production systems.✔ Ensure coordination between shifts by participating in the meetings of the Plant Manager related to production dec.✔Carry out activities to ensure that production processes are carried out in accordance with plant targets.✔ Make shortterm and longterm forecasts by considering the performance of splints in production to guide the teams according to the risks and opportunities.✔Working in cooperation with other teams, it ensures that corrective and preventive actions are taken to prevent product-related problems and risks, and its applications are followed up.✔Lead the improvement of production processes for customer needs and expectations. If necessary, it works together with other manufacturing engineering teams to ensure that action is taken.✔ Conducting occupational safety activities✔ Ensure the necessary coordination between the workshops in order to deconstruct the products to produce them in the order and quantity in accordance with customer demands and to make sales.✔Organize quality improvement activities in order for the production to be of the desired quality to participate in the organized activities.✔Closely monitor repair and maintenance activities so that production is not interrupted.✔Make plans and implement them that increase the efficiency of the use of production resources (labor, materials, time, equipment, energy)✔ Ensure the coordination of supply and internal logistic in order to ensure that production is not disrupted due to the supply of materials✔Provide mentoring and coaching to develop team members, which include technicians, new engineers and interns. Show less ✔ Lead maintenance, product and all process activities through the body shop v362 line with 5 engineers,130 maintenance operators and 750 - 800 production operators.✔ Responsible for quality management in accordance with Ford standards.✔ Lead 6 sigma projects of production team ✔ ICAs & PCAs related with customer concerns (FCPA, FPA, CPU, FTT)✔ Shop floor motivation and employee satisfaction improvement activities of blue collar & white collar✔ Monitor HPV improvement, Health & Safety, and 5S activities. Identify risk analysis✔ Lead lay-out studies at shop floor✔ Patent & best practice ✔ Innovative problem solving skills by using 6 Sigma, Kaizen, 8D, Fish-Bone, 5 Why etc. tools✔ Implement effectively lean Manufacturing (5S, Value Stream Mapping, Team Setup, Standardized work)✔ Optimize process by cycle time analysis and line balancing✔ Co-worked with engineering teams 4 automation projects including mechanical and electrical installation of 15 robots and 6 fixtures that has 3.000.000€ investment budget ✔ Experience in people management of qualified team with strong leadership and people skills including communication, collaboration and empathy .✔Follow technological developments in the sector and make feasibility studies on the application of these developments in the factory ın productivity and cost advantage. ✔ Lead Quality Management Systems in bodyshop v362 line.✔ Define , enhance and implement the maintenance plans. Show less ✔ Lead production at body shop closure lines in a fast paced environment with a team of 500 operators and 4 engineers including maintenance staff on a daily basis respecting volumes, times, safety and quality parameters and costs established by company budgets . ✔ Responsible from improving the efficiency of production lines, ✔ Responsible of the quality of the BIW ✔Lead safety in BIW✔Lead 2 automation processes including mechanical and electrical installation of 6 robots and 4 fixtures with my maintenance team. ✔ Define , enhance and implement the maintenance plans. ✔ Experience in people management with strong leadership and people skills including communication, collaboration and empathy . ✔ Experience in a very fast-paced environment with multiple changing priorities simultaneously. Show less ✔ Responsible from quality of the product in body shop .✔ Lead safety and ergonomy and build sustainable solutions proactively . ✔Execute automation and new car line projects. ✔Lead cost reduction projects.✔ Experience in 6 sigma tools , lean management methodology, 5D , 8D, SPC , value stream mapping during my projects. ✔ Responsible of ISO 9001 , ISO 14001 and ISO 16949 processes. ✔Co-work with maintenance team to remodel robot programs , update PLC 's and modify fixtures and other tools and equipment affected from a design change. ✔Lead external exterior trim customer complaints - Lead water leakage tests , closing effort tests , air leakage tests , dimensional integrity, welding quality . ✔Lead framing problems , closing efforts in the launch of V363.✔ Experience in dimensional accuracy.✔ Lead V363 launch in bodyshop including of mechanical and electrical installation of 100 fixtures and 250 robots in body shop.✔ Experience in laser welding , roll hemming , laser cutting, spot welding, arc welding, self piercing riveting and CMM .✔Experience in process specifications in BIW. ✔ Experience in process FMEA, design FMEA and quality control plans. 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    Feb 2023 - now

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    Jun 2022 - Mar 2023

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    Feb 2019 - Jun 2022

  • V363 Production Supervisor

    Oct 2016 - Feb 2019

  • Production Engineer

    Mar 2014 - Oct 2016

  • Process Engineer

    Dec 2011 - Mar 2014