Salvador D. Sanchez

About Salvador D. Sanchez

Dedicated, loyal,seasoned professional with 25+ years experience in the automotive industry. I take pride in my motivational skills, as well as, my ability to get the job done at the lowest cost, with the shortest time and the highest quality. One of my strengths is my people skills, ability to work with Executive management to team members. I enjoy traveling and meeting new people. There is always something new to learn everyday and I make it my responsibility to share what I learn and know with others. Impacting the company and its people, is my goal. My job has been to build vehicles and to build people.Specialties:*Lean Manufacturing/ Process Implementation *Toyota Certified Standardized Work Trainer (Train-the-Trainer)*Material Information Flow (Value Stream Mapping) trainer*Continuous Improvement Leader and implementor*Kaizen Workshop leader and presenter for Exectutive Management seminars *Leader/Trainer for Manager Jishuken(Kaizen) for process and system improvements*Toyota Business Practices (8 step problem solving) trainer and evaluator*Experienced with union environments

Experience

1. Sr Manager of Global Operations Excellence Improvement Group

   Dana Incorporated

   Jun 2010 — Present

   2010 – 2017 Dana Corporation Maumee, OH Sr. Manager of Global Operation Excellence Team March 2013 – August 2017 Responsible for leading a global team in implementing Lean Manufacturing Culture (Toyota Production System). Countries that I support: Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, USA, Canada, UK, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Spain and South Africa.(Shop floor and Functional activities) Responsible for transforming new acquisitions (USA, Italy, Brazil, China) Supported strategical initiatives in creating and implementing our Annual Operating Plan for our Light Vehicle Business Unit, 35 plants throughout the globe. Focusing on customer centricity and main KPI’s (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Productivity). Led new building expansions and new plant layout designs (China, USA, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, UK).

Skills

• Six Sigma
• 5s
• Tpm
• Toyota Way
• Quality Management
• Stamping
• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Manufacturing Operations
• Tqm
• Vehicles
• Lean Manufacturing
• Factory
• Kanban
• Industrial Engineering
• Poka Yoke
• Quality System
• Root Cause Analysis
• Parts
• Materials
• Plastics
• Production Planning
• Management
• Engineering
• Spc
• Process Engineering
• Dmaic
• Operational Excellence
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Leadership
• Operations Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Jit
• Automotive
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement
• Toyota Production System
• Ppap
• Quality Assurance
• Manufacturing
• Training