Project Manager Development

Rogelio Chacon

*** *********

El Paso Texas

USA 79932

tel: 915-***-****

email: **************@*******.***

SUMMARY

Bilingual: English / Spanish, Major in Business Administration, 23 years experience in all HR Management areas at the MAnufacturing industry, working for two of the global most important and largest Automotive components manufactures, strong knowledge of Labor regulations, Union contract negotiations, Compensation and Benefits administration, Budgeting, Lean Manufacturing, Organizational Development, Talent recruitment and development .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HR VP 7/04 to 2/12

Lear Corp. is an Automotive components company, Design, Manufacture and Distribution of seats, wire and Cable over 34k employees in Mexico and Honduras. I was responsible for: supplying all staffing needs. Employee relations management, union administration and contract negotiations for 23 independent collectible bargaining agreements with (CTM, CROC, CTC and independents in Mexico, Pacto In Honduras ), Salaried personnel administration, compensation and benefits, expatriated assignments, HR Internal control polices and procedures, Training, EHS, Organizational Development and Talent Recruitment and development. Operational Main Objectives: maintain low rates of Turn Over and Absenteeism, , Certification program, manage technical training for operators. Establish a solid Culture of CORE values. Reinforce Ethics Program, Develop Succession Plan for Key positions, continue H.R department development, Achieve Safety corporate goals, manage and lead a culture of safety and cero accidents in the work place LFT, IMSS, OSHA’s, and employee services such as Cafeteria, Transportation, Security (CTPAT) and medical service.

Accomplishments:

- 100% of achievement of (CTPAT) Certification Program

- Develop and implement one Market leader Salaried compensation package consolidating 12 different compensation schemas in to one, Implementing a unique Flexible compensation package, including a pension program and saving along the way 2,5 million dollars in taxes, but most importantly becoming a benchmark in the industry and a recruiting and a retention tool for a population of more than 3k employees across Mexico.

- Develop and Implemented web base a union contract negotiation tool to evaluate and determine the best scenarios to present and negotiate with the unions at the negotiation table, scenarios that take in consideration all the cots roll-up and tax related implication of benefits and all increases, giving the advantage to the negotiator in the table and reducing de cost impact of the annual union negotiations saving millions of dollars annually.

- 100% compliance of annual performance evaluations for all salaried personnel

- Implement a labor strategy gear to reduce the individual and collective labor lawsuits, achieving a reduction of 35% in cost of law suits year over year, and reducing the individual lawsuits year over year 15%, and eliminated to cero the collective lawsuits.

- Union Negotiations in Mexico 100% within budget every year, below market average.

- CBA Negotiations with US union in budget at the El Paso TX warehouse.

- Closed a 3k unionized warehouse operation in El Paso TX. With no incidents with the union and a cordial transfer to a contract cross docking external service.

- Community participation, implemented 100% UNITED WAY (FONDO UNIDO) participation at all 25 Mexico facilities and the 32+ Lear employees

- Work accident reduction, year over year, saving and average of 5 to 8 million dollars in IMSS premiums

- Start Up of 11 new green field operations with no HR issues in a period of 5 years, all staffed 100 on time for Salaried, management and technical needs as well as Hourly Unionized employees levels.

- Implement communication strategy using as base: Communication Boards, Town Hall meetings, Focus Groups, 1 over 1 and Skip level meetings, Internal News Paper

- Leadership Program in place for key employees and plants based on Situational Leadership II and the Gird (Team Buildings, Training Seminars)

- Job Safety Analysis (JSA) 100% and 8d analysis for all incidents and accidents in the work place.

- Salaried band structure implementation, based on broad band theory adjusting the spread of the bands from up to 150% in some levels to an average of 50%

- Savings on the salaried major-medical coverage of over 5M dollars by smart management of illness coverage, doctors and hospital fees.

HR VP 5/86 to 7/04

Delphi

At Delphi I had the opportunity to be hired as Co-op student and spent the next 18 years growing and learning all the HR functions, I had the opportunity to hands-on train, hire and manage all the HR related activities. From co-op to HR assistant, Hr Supervisor, general supervisor manager and Director of the function. Among some of my most important achievements are: lead the expansion of the technical group for several divisions to establish the Mexican Technical Center in Juarez, lead project manager for initiatives such as college recruiting, intern programs, US National and Mexican National hiring strategy, implementing and using tools like Targeted Selection Process TM. and intense selection plans. Also I was in charge of establishing the newest site for Delphi in Mexico (Delphi Thermal), and due in big part to the selection strategy and the progression and promotion scheme designed and implemented we were able to make these new operation profitable in less than 3 years and by the fifth year it way the best Delphi Thermal operation in all key metrics, one of the most noticeable accomplishments of this strategic plan was that in the first 8 years of operations we only had two individual labor law suits, and both were won by Delphi, we did all this at the time that I was in Charge of two different Divisions in Delphi and by collaboration between two divisions I was able to exceed both Operation's objectives in establishing the infrastructure to make the model a success and implement a winning workforce strategy in a most difficult structure. I spent my last three years in Delphi at the Thermal Davison corporate offices in Lockport NY. As responsible of the Global Organizational Development and Expatriate department, there I was able to implement leadership development programs using Situational Leadership II, participate in the implementation of the Lean Leadership University Program, help develop and implement the Team Delphi annual program, Implemented the Delphi Manufacturing System (After the TMS), lead the ISO implementation globally for the HR Department, Implemented the Mentoring program for High potential and key employees, Facilitated several trainings at Global Leadership level for team building and strategic planning events, using innovative tools like DISC TEAM TM. MBTI, and LPI 360 performance evaluations.

Additional trainings and skills:

Strategic Planning New Operations Start-up Multinational Operations

QS-9000/ISO-9000/TS-16949 Organizational Development

References available Upon request. Situational Leadership II DISC TEAM Certified Bilingual English / Spanish/ Portuguese

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