Juan Milian

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT JUAN MILIAN

Centered by my top values; faith walk, family, freedom, integrity, high achievement and wisdom. Guided by data to focus on the right priorities for our people, the customer and the business. Diverse experience with full operational responsibility and multi-site of 24/7 operations: automotive, steel, construction, aerospace, energy and machinery. Proven track record of building high performance cross functional teams and delivering financial results at facilities with different processes, systems and cultures (Michigan, Ontario-Canada, Ohio, Monterrey-Mexico and Texas). Led teams consisting of 600+ employees with responsibility for P&L, safety, quality, engineering, throughput, maintenance, supply chain, training and development. Specialties: Team Leadership, Lean Manufacturing, Goal Setting and Alignment, Toyota Production System, Material Utilization, Strategic Planning, Systems Implementation, Operations Restructure, ISO, Six-Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, Resource Optimization, Budgeting, Bilingual (Fluent in English and Spanish) Selected Contributions: • Led safety initiatives that drove the OSHA recordable incident rate from above 6 to less than 1 • Reduced inventory by 22% in 9 months of new assignment • Improved On Time Delivery from 84% to 98% first year; 100% following year • Improved productivity by 51% per employee via lean initiatives within 7 months • Developed and implemented a business operating system • Developed and implemented a leading indicator using statistical process control (SPC) to predict manufacturability of products • Led Materials Cost Reduction Team responsible for savings of $6.8M per year • Coached and mentored multiple direct reports that became senior leaders