NESTOR E. NIEVES MOLINA

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NAPLES, FLORIDA 34119

Mobile 787-***-****

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Manufacturing / Facilities / Sterilization / Laser Engineer and Supervisor with 20 years of experiences with world class companies in Manufacturing of Aerospace, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Device Industries; Adept at handling sensitive business issues with discretion and professionalism; Hands-on knowledge of operations starts up, from planning, layout of manufacturing cells, Purchasing of equipment, validation and maintenance activities. Excellent interpersonal, supervisory and communication skills; skilled with administrating and maintaining continuous improvements process standards; adapt at managing capital projects.

CORE COMPETENCES

• Root cause Analysis and Troubleshooting

• Medtronic Inc. Lean-Sigma Certification

• SAP Business Suite Plant Maintenance

• Manufacturing Execution Systems

• Calibration Systems

• Statistical Process Control (SPC)

• Operational Business Planning and Budgeting

• Proficient Spanish and English Languages

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Improved facilities areas general conditions and conceived and reduced energy consumption by

$30K by replacing the old air handling units’ compressors by new high efficiency units.

• Led Process Improvement projects resulting in significant cost savings (3MM), payback period and productivity results.

• Recognized as ‘Supervisor of the year – 2013’ at UTC Aerospace Systems in consequence of production goals and KPI’s were consistently met and/or exceeded during the whole year.

• Led a Multifunctional team to reduce Seam welder equipment's downtime in order to comply with manufacturing commits and improve On-Time Delivery for CRHF products, 50% of reduction was accomplished.

• Designed and developed new tools and fixtures to improve manufacturing processes and to add quality controls.

EXPERIENCE

STRUCTURE MEDICAL LLC, NAPLES FLORIDA

Manufacturing Operator (2019 - Present): Responsible to provide manufacturing support to all laser marking and laser welding manufacturing activities, Also responsible for the in process quality inspections and documentation.

Medtronic CRHF, Juncos Puerto Rico Operations

Senior Manufacturing Engineer (2013-2019): Responsible to provide engineering support to all manufacturing activities, responsible to create and maintain Work Instructions and for Tooling & equipment validation. Provided engineering technical support to the production area. Responsible of non-conforming product dispositions, root cause analysis and the identification and implementation of corrective and preventive actions. As Laser Technology Expert, responsible of all characterization, qualification and validation plans and reports for all laser welding Operations, in addition diagnosis of malfunctioning, purchasing part and schedule for repair laser equipment’s; Responsible for new equipment’s purchase and acceptance verifications. Supports FDA and TUV audits. UTC Aerospace Systems. Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico

Manufacturing Supervisor (2011 – 2013): Managed a cell team of over 30 employees, responsible of employee’s performance and capabilities development. Responsible to ensure production goals are consistently met. Responsible to maintains and audit attendance records; established and maintain manufacturing standard operating procedures, assembly methods, selection and/or design of equipment and tools, including its maintenance. Analyzed and planed work force utilization, space requirements, and work flow. Actively participated on New product introduction projects. Industries; Analyzed and planed work force utilization, space requirements, and work flow. Medtronic Neurological, Villalba Puerto Rico Operations Principal Facilities / Sterilization Engineer (2008-2011): Supervisor of Facilities technicians team, all of them professional and exempt personnel. Responsible for the Fire and loss prevention corporate audit, preventive / predictive maintenance schedule using Gage Insite software. Responsible to perform routine ground and building maintenance tasks to include the primary fields of electrical, HVAC, carpentry and plumbing. Provided Transfer activities, layouts, utilities installations and movements. Neuromodulation roofing building, old gowning entrance doors with automatic sliding doors with interlocks system; provided layout and re-layout activities. Responsible of sterilization equipments and loads released, on charge of the sterilization technicians to assure that the sterilization chambers are available for production demands. Purchase of a new (ETO) 3M 5XLe Sterilization machine with aerator, installation and startup. Senior Manufacturing Engineer (2002-2008): Responsible to provide engineering support to manufacturing activities, maintaining and improving the specific quality standards. Provided engineering technical support to the production area, as Laser Technology Expert, responsible of all characterization, qualification and validation plans/reports for all laser welding Operations, in addition diagnosis of malfunctioning, purchasing part and schedule for repair laser equipments; Responsible for new laser equipments purchase and acceptance verifications. Attend FDA/TUV audits. Hamilton Sundstrand de P.R. Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico Manufacturing Supervisor / Manufacturing Engineer (1997 – 2002): Managed a cell team of over 30 employees. Responsible of all manufacturing commitments; Audit payroll data using KRONOS; Established and maintain manufacturing standard operating procedures, assembly methods, selection and/or design of equipment for the construction of units both for the Military and Commercial Aerospace Industries; Analyzed and planed work force utilization, space requirements, and work flow; In charge of New Business Products Team Transferring New Products from Headquarters on Rockford, IL. Responsible for Tooling & equipment validation of Transferred Products. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Sciences in Industrial Engineer

Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR SEMINARS AND TRAININGS

• Leadership Development Program - Rockford College, Illinois 1999

• Training for Managers and Supervisors 2000

• Design for Manufacture (DFMA) Workshop for new program aircraft. Rockford, Illinois. 1999

• Introduction to Surface Mount Technology (SMT) and Wave Soldering & Reflow - Polytechnic University of P.R. 1999

• Cognex Vision System training, Boston MA, 2005

• ILT laser welding system training, Minneapolis MNN, 2004

• Medtronic’s Lean Sigma Green Belt Training 2006.

• Laser safety officer training 2009

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