Todd Sondergard
Elizabethtown,KY
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Analyst I
Akebono
Elizabethtown, KY
04.2023 - Current
- Quality support directly to customer (Lucid Motors & Nissan North America) for quality concerns, PPAP for new product launches, current product changes.
- Built successful working relationships with customer QE’s to improve customer relations.
- Managed all change processes to include break point timing as well as documentation updates.
- Performed regular control plan and PFMEA audits to ensure ISO and IATF compliance.
- Responsible for LT/CM activities and implementation for all customer quality concerns.
Quality Engineer
Toyotomi America
Springfield, KY
07.2017 - 07.2022
- Quality support directly to customer (Aisin) for concerns, PPAP changes, new model launch and testing.
- Built successful working relationships with QE’s at all Aisin facilities for better customer relations at all Aisin facilities.
- Develop, monitor and initiate change for Control Plans and PFMEA.
- Oversee internal line trials and review product capability.
- Make disposition on internal concerns based on test results and dimensional layout.
- Perform regular audits to ensure effectiveness and sustainability of implemented LT/CM.
Quality Engineer
Plastikon Industries
Leitchfield, KY
11.2016 - 07.2017
- Quality support directly to customer (TMMI) for concerns, QPR response and LT/CM activities.
- Successfully addressed quality issues with components supplied to TMMI and assured corrective actions were made in a timely manner by Plastikon.
- Built successful working relationship with QE’s at TMMI for better customer relations with TMMI.
Quality Control Team Leader
Akebono
Elizabethtown, KY
12.2014 - 11.2016
- Quality support directly to customer (GM) for concerns, PPAP changes, new model launch and product testing and dimensional layouts.
- Collect and provide supporting data and sample parts to achieve PPAP approvals for new equipment and engineering change requirements.
- Upload and submit all data and required documentation onto customer portal.
- Responsible for providing timely responses and LT/CM activities to customer for quality concerns with customer.
- Responsible for frequent meetings and presentations with customer to ensure manufacturing processes adhere to all aspects of control plans and PFMEA’s.
Disc Brake Area Team Leader (Supervisor)
Akebono
Elizabethtown, KY
01.2010 - 01.2014
- Ensure all employees are adequately trained in safe work practices and job-related technical skills needed to meet production schedules, quality specifications and customer satisfaction.
- Responsible for providing day to day on-the-floor operational support, direction and problem-solving strategies and decisions, and monitor work of up to thirty fulltime employees to safely maximize productivity in the assembly departments.
- Additionally, monitoring several temporary work force members was also required.
- Write and monitor standardized work instructions for associates line side.
- Perform daily audits to ensure production line work is being performed safely and effectively.
- Ensure that time and attendance records were kept accurately for all full time associates as well as temporary work force.
- Ensure that Kanban is posted correctly based on customer demand amid varying scheduling changes.
Disc Assembly Group Leader
Akebono
Elizabethtown, KY
01.2003 - 01.2010
- Responsible for keeping the line running and maintained, performing quality checks and maintaining set specifications and tolerances as outlined by OQI’s and utilizing digital calipers and torque wrenches.
- Troubleshoot and correct machine issues from day to day.
- Responsible for maintaining lot control, data entry on quality checks and maintaining XMR (exact moving range) Charts.
- Overseeing production associates and production targets, training new group leaders and new production associates and responsible for line changeovers from one model to another.
- Ensure standardized work instructions were being followed by production associates.
Disc Assembly Production Associate
Akebono
Elizabethtown, KY
01.2000 - 01.2010
- Operating machines producing disc brake assemblies.
- Understanding and following a KANBAN production system.
- Responsible for hourly Quality checks as outlined by Operator Quality Instructions (OQI's).
- Understanding and Following set Standardized Work Instructions (SWI's) and Standardized Work Charts (SWC's).
- Maintained 4's +1: Sifting, Sorting, Sweeping, Spic and Span, Self-Discipline.
- Trained new associates utilizing OQI's, SWI's, SWC's.
Timeline
Quality Analyst I
Akebono
04.2023 - Current
Quality Engineer
Toyotomi America
07.2017 - 07.2022
Quality Engineer
Plastikon Industries
11.2016 - 07.2017
Quality Control Team Leader
Akebono
12.2014 - 11.2016
Disc Brake Area Team Leader (Supervisor)
Akebono
01.2010 - 01.2014
Disc Assembly Group Leader
Akebono
01.2003 - 01.2010
Disc Assembly Production Associate
Akebono
01.2000 - 01.2010