Juan Rodriguez Ortiz is a senior manufacturing engineer with 16 years of experience in the automotive industry at General Motors. He has experience managing projects, operations, maintenance, and over 50 employees. Some of his responsibilities include designing and developing tooling and equipment for new vehicle assembly programs, maintaining safety and productivity, and implementing lean manufacturing principles. He is proficient in English and his native Spanish.

1. Juan Rodriguez Ortiz
Calle N # 137 Balcones de Morelos Saltillo Coahuila México
Cell 8442118388; W: 8443501826
 juan.rodriguezortiz@gm.com
Professional profile
 Senior manufacturing Engineer with 16 years in automotive industry on General Motors.
 Experience with people management in operations and maintenance. Over 50 hourly persons and 3 salaries.
 Design, build and development of new tooling and equipment for General assembly.
 9 years of Experience to launch new programs. SRX, GMT311 Captiva, T300 Sonic, D2LC/JC Cruze and actually
working on new D2UC program at Ramos Arizpe assembly plant in Mexico.
 In-depth knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, General Assembly tooling development, project
management and technologies utilized to support the business.
 Strong focus on results and to support my direct customers and collaborators on a team effort.
Personal Skills
 Ability to work in team and multiple cultural environments.
 Customer and service focused
 Comfortable analyzing the complexity of issues with existing data or referring to multiple sources in the search
to find a solution.
Experience
August 2007 – Present Sr Manufacturing Eng for new programs
 Responsible to coordinate, Manage and keep Track of the Project Status and key activities (cost,
timing, Training, Installation activities, Integration activities, Tool and Equipment, etc.)
 Design, develop and implement tooling and equipment for new programs and process at General
Assembly.
 Directed to deliver: lean, common process and compatible tool designs that are acceptable to the
customer under the Program budget.
 Respond to Manufacturing Planning Studies, CRDNs, EWOs & Labor studies.
 Maintain a Safe Work/Plant Environment that is occupational injury free, design ergonomic and safe
tools.
 Participate in working meetings with key program team members to understand and communicate
current plant processes and new product strategy intent.
 Managed the collaboration between multifunctional teams: Manufacturing, Materials, Third-party,
Operations, Production, IE, Packaging and Containerization.
 Responsible for Process design, tooling design and to coordinate Installation and setup on site.
July 2005 – October 2007 Maintenance Coordinator
 Preventive maintenance responsible for GA equipment’s. Provide all the resources (people, spare parts,
tools, etc.) to reach 100%.
 Keep equipment in very good condition to support safety, quality and production.
 Continues improvement to reduce downtime on equipment’s. Eliminate and prevent fails on tools and
equipment’s.
 Maintenance management, salaries and hourly people. 3 Crews / 2 shifts.
 Evaluate performance and development plans for salaries and hourly people.

2.  Provide training of new technologies to maintenance team.
 Control and keep maintenance budget on target.
Sept 2002 – June 2005 Process Eng
 Responsible of continues improvement and lean manufacturing process. Lead and support operations,
maintenance and quality for new process implementation.
 Implement best practices and error proofing equipment to reach good quality levels.
 Lead for the first torque audit at Ramos Arizpe assembly plant.
 Provide feedback and requirements for tooling and equipment bulletins implementation.
 Leader to resolve quality issue through RED X methodology.
 Responsible to keep urethane application on glasses under control to prevent water leaks on vehicles.
March 2000 – August 2002 Group Leader
 Responsible to achieve quality and production goals of trim shop department.
 Hourly people management. Over 50 direct reporters included 6 team members.
 Leader to implement Global Manufacturing System (GMS) at trim shop department.
 Evaluate performance and development plans for hourly people.
 Control and keep scrap budget on target.
 As leader, cero accidents occurrence on my team members.
Education
Industrial Engineer
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DEL NORESTE
1995-1999
Language
English: Fluent , Spanish: Native
Skills and training
 ISO 9000
 ISO 14000
 RED X
 Vis Mock up
 SAP
 E2
Reference
 Available Upon Request