Industrial Engineer Microsoft Office
Resume:
Joseph Fernando Cruz
Industrial Engineer
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Summary of Qualifications
I have many years of experience in the automotive field. Much of my experience encompassed direct plant involvement and analysis as an industrial engineer. I have extensive kitting experience and I am MODAPTS certified. I have been engaged in product launches along with productivity and quality improvements. I created and implemented a method to engage operator participation in the line balance process resulting in optimization of work assignments. I led the implementation of the assembly line balance system at General Motors. I utilized my fluency in Portuguese to translate direct labor development documents from English for use by General Motors’ Brazilian operations. In addition, I have excellent analytical skills and bring outstanding consulting expertise in the field of database management, ad hoc reporting, and data integrity. I am proficient in all the Microsoft Office applications and firm in AutoCAD.
Technical Expertise
• MODAPTS Certified • Lean Manufacturing & Lean Launch
• Extensive Kitting Experience • Communication/People Skills
• Organization/Time Management • Practical Problem Solving
• Workstation Optimization • Microsoft Office Applications
• Tactical/Strategic Planning • Toyota Production System (TPS)
Representative Clients Served
• General Motors Central Office • Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly
• General Motors Ste. Therese Plant • Ford Michigan Assembly Plant-Wayne
• General Motors-Linden Plant • Ford Dearborn Truck Plant
• Chrysler Technology Center-Auburn Hills • GM Orion Plant
• GM Arlington Plant
Professional Experience
Apr 2020-Present-The Productivity Team-GM Tech Center, Warren MI
GM PPO North-Warren: Developing the initial work content for theA100 and L246 BEVs.
Aug 2018-Apr 2020: The Productivity Team-Automotive-GM Arlington Plant
GM Arlington Assembly Plant: I worked on the 2021 and 2022 (Cadillac V-Sport) launches.
Developed work standard improvements in General Assembly.
Collaborated with Android Industries supplier to improve Console and I/P build.
Worked on cycle time improvements across General Assembly during startup.
May 2017-Aug 2018: The Productivity Team-Automotive-GM Orion Plant
GM Orion Assembly Plant: I used APS to update the kitting cell time studies in trim. In addition, I presented different kit cell scenarios to increase efficiency and quality.
Kept the trim department kitting cells and DLOCS current using AutoCAD.
I combined a door kitting bulk line and a mirror sequencing line to save space and increase productivity.
I attended a workshop in GMOS.
Feb 2017-Apr 2017: Staffing Resources Inc. – Engineering Staffing
Design Systems-Farmington Hills: I worked as an industrial engineer creating instructional materials for MODAPTS. In addition, I devised a standardized worksheet to itemize the MODAPTS labor content and interpret the MODAPTS formula decisions into a time value.
I provided AutoCAD drawings and time studies for the new Magneti Marelli plant to show the movement of new products between the production machinery and the storage warehouse.
Oct 2015-Dec 2016: CDI Corporation – Engineering, Staffing or Technology
Chrysler Headquarters-Auburn Hills: Throughput engineer working on bottleneck and starve issues on the manufacturing floor of the Chrysler automotive assembly plants. Provide weekly reports to the plants that summarize the downtime due to the different faults into an account that highlights the bottleneck in each center.
Mar 2013-Aug 2015: TPT – The Productivity Team-Automotive
Ford Dearborn Truck Plant: Quality Analyst working on the containment actions necessary to control warranty claims and the top plant quality issues.
Ford Assembly Plant-Wayne MI: Industrial engineer working on an engine line kitting project involving over one hundred parts. I re-balanced the engine line to reflect the new part presentation.
Ford Assembly Plant-Wayne MI: Quality Engineer working on quality focused initiatives that targeted warranty claims. Cross-functional collaborative team activities included defect identification, root causation analysis, interim and permanent containment actions.
Chrysler-Sterling Heights: I made productivity improvements in the trim and chassis lines adhering to lean manufacturing procedures and continuous improvement techniques.
Aug 2004-Nov 2008 General Motors-Pontiac Central Office Pontiac, MI
Senior Industrial Engineer
I developed the processes necessary to migrate automotive assembly line balance data that was mainframe based to a new PC based line balance system.
Led the migration of the mainframe-based line balance data to the PC based line balance system for all (16) North American Assembly Plants. Centralizing this process resulted in considerable savings in time as well as a minimization of errors.
Led development of a process to transfer scheduling order data to the new PC based line balance system to enable creation of actual weighted labor standards. This completed the phase-out of the mainframe-based line balance system resulting in cost savings through elimination of support and computer charges.
Developed labor content and line balance data for the new Chevy Volt (electric vehicle) battery.
Feb 2001-Jul 2004 General Motors Tech Center-Manufacturing C Warren, MI
Assembly Line Balance Systems Analyst
• Engineered and developed SQL and related database procedures to migrate data from GM’s industrial engineering line balance system to a system that integrated line balance data with material parts data.
• I conducted pilot testing on this new system tying the “Description of Operation” and parts data to the migrated operator labor content data. This concluded a feasibility study that proved the non-viability of this new system.
Education
• 1974-Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, Kettering University, Flint, MI
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