Jeronimo Zavala

• Successfully led a department in charge of two manufacturing lines with over 70 employees, managing a monthly budget of $500K, and achieved over $200K in cost savings for the fiscal year
• Enhanced department culture through targeted training and teamwork exercises, utilizing the Cloverleaf tool to foster better communication and collaboration
• Implemented equipment owner coaching, resulting in a 50% reduction in premature equipment breakdowns

• Led a 24/7 toilet paper manufacturing line, managing 4 different teams with a total of over 30 employees and a production capability of 28000 cases a day, reducing unplanned downtime from 16% to 12% through rigorous loss elimination.
• Coordinated a production schedule to optimize results and worked intensively with work planning and scheduling in order to complete maintenance on a timely manner while managing the available resources, in the meantime prioritized finding defects that could impact production and create the best plan to cause the least amount of downtime through thorough data analysis.
• Successfully launched several new products like 'shaped perforation in Charmin', ensuring compliance with quality metrics and training operators on new procedures, while meeting project launch timings.

· Utilized loss elimination tools to identify the biggest risks, successfully drove out chronic losses and standardized solutions that would be re-applied across 8 different manufacturing lines.

· Worked with operators to identify high risk tasks and created a tool that was re-applied across 4 different lines and successfully eliminated a hazardous task.

· Acted as the main technical support for the manufacturing line, spending around 70% of the time on the manufacturing floor identifying risks and opportunities while coaching and training operators on standards.

• Worked as a test engineer finding the optimal most cost effective design, through flow analysis.

• Conducted quality assurance tests on medical devices and ensured suppliers were meeting quality.