Jose Aaron Palomares Ruiz

40 years old well-seasoned professional leader of nature, with 19 years of experience in manufacturing and 10 years of Managing experience, including medical, automotive, aerospace, industrial and consumer goods, proficient in operations, quality, Supply chain and project management, under quality & operational excellence and Regulated industries, multicultural environments, including, Americas, Asia and Europe, Strong Knowledge on ISO, IATF, UL, CE, Six Sigma and lean manufacturing, Core tools, OSHAs, STPS, IMMEX, Team builder, people developer, barrier breaking and change managed leadership,

Feb 2022- Current Candid Care Co. (Medical manufacturing)
Tijuana B.C.
General Manager
• Leading Selection and negotiation with Mx business partners.
• Setting up the operation scratch to mass production in less than 6 months
• Building the team aligned to the organizational culture.
• Closing Service contracts, deals and service agreements with public and private service providers.
• Successful execution of (VMP) Validation master plan.
• Ramp up to mass production and fully transfer operation from California to TJ in 1 month.
• Closing service deals with logistic and brockage, transportation partners.
• Set performance Benchmarks and goals for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People.
• Setting up S&OP & forecast review process
• Creating Site’s long term transformation plan.
• Developing a team which is capable to perform and deliver expected results with full autonomy.
• Establishing along with the Vice-president of Quality root cause analysis and problem-solving methodologies, DMAIC, PDCA, 8D.
• Coaching local management to achieve outstanding levels of performance.
• Implementing Psychosocial health measures in accordance with NOM-STPS-035-2018 + bi Yearly Employee engagement survey.
• Implementing A3 methodologies for KPI review and improvement initiatives.
• Establishing detailed budgeting process, currently adopted as corporate’s budgeting standard.
• Accountable for Gross profit, P&L and EBITDA.

Feb-2017 to Feb 2022. Gecko Alliance (Consumer Goods) Tijuana B.C.
Plant Manager
• Leading +850 people multisite vertically integrated operation
• Setting up a new 48K Sq-ft Operation to increase sales from 65M to 126M in 2021 in record time of 3 months.
• Increase Gross profit by 5%.
• Improving inventory accuracy from 65% to 99.85%.
• Reducing 3PL logistics cost by 250K USD through VMI, forecasting and material reduction.
• Incorporation of Lean culture through all the Organization and prepare for the next step of adopting Industry 4.0 Concepts.
• Achieve overall customer quality levels above 99.87%.
• Sponsor Operational Excellence program and daily management system.
• Cost reduction projects for over 1Million USD.
• Molding operation productivity gain of 150% from 2017 to 2021.
• Water pump assembly productivity improvement of 180% from 2017 to 2021.
• Harnessing operation productivity increase by 150% from 2017 to 2021
• PCBA increase volume increase by 200% 2019 to 2022.
• Budgeting and budget attainment accountability

Feb-2015 – Feb- 2017 Gecko Alliance (Consumer Goods) Tijuana B.C.
Quality Director.
• Developing and leading Corporate 3 year quality strategy, working on 6 axis of Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Continuous improvement, Process control, Corrective action and Risk Management.
• Developing and rolling out OpEx and continuous improvement strategy
• Successful implementation of lean principles, such as 5S, Standardize work, pokayoke, Kaizen teian and Kaizen events, PDCA and six sigma, & GEMBA.
• Manage, Quality, Training and warranty departments.
• Implementation of customer scorecard methodology to measure the perception of customer satisfaction
• Maintain regulatory product certifications, UL, CSA, TUV, CCC.
• Implementing supplier development program, audits and scorecard.

Aug-2013 to Feb-2015. Gecko Alliance (Consumer Goods) Tijuana B.C.
Quality Manager
• Support along with plant manager the successful transfer of production operation from Quebec Canada to Tijuana Mx. With than 10 production cells transferred and product launch from Quebec Canada to Tijuana Mex, coordinating Logistics, customs and engineering.
• Successful transfer of pump assembly operation from Corona Ca. to Tijuana Mx. Leading the transfer team conformed by 4 Engineers, 2 maintenance technician and 1 Quality tech. including facilities, and legal requirements.
• Successful certification on ISO9001:2008 and recertification for ISO9001:2015
• New supplier development in Asia (china) and Mexico, supplier audit, and follow up.
• Follow up to customer complaints for Mexico operations Site, response time reduction from more than 100 days to <30 days for effective closure

Nov 2011 – Aug 2013 - Bourns Automotive (Automotive) Tijuana B.C.
Jr Quality Manager (OEM & Tier 1 customer contact)
• Leading the successful launch for more than 7 new production platforms for the automotive industry including customers like General Motors, Ford, Honda, Hella Automotive and TI fuel systems, APQP-PPAP
• Leading 5phase problem solution projects for GM platforms.
• Reducing and closing total of 43 open complaints from TI fuel systems and maintain flawless score for 12 months.
Responsible for:
• Metrology lab & calibration for automotive div.
• Support on Quality system based on ISO/TS16949 for the automotive industry.
• Coordination (coaching) of scrap reduction / continuous improvement teams. Incoming inspection, MRB, Customer complaints, & 8Ds and 5 phases. Internal corrective action process/ lessons learned / fast response.
• Act as second in command within quality department, reporting to the Operations Manager.
• Responsible for 6 assembly areas, including 10 different automotive customers.
• Primary customer contact for quality related topics and new product introduction

Jun 2007- Nov 2011 Carl Zeiss Vision (Medical) Tijuana B.C
Quality Systems Superintendent.
• Development of the internal requirements for the operational excellence frame work within Carl Zeiss Vision manufacturing.
• Successful development and implementation of the internal Kaizen project with yearly savings for more than 200K USD.
• Development of Kaizen program, including Kaizen Teian.
• Coaching PDCA and six sigma projects.
• Coordinating 5S program and Coordination of management GEMBA walks.
• Coordination and development of cost reduction projects savings for +100K USD/year through 6Sigma and lean manufacturing initiatives
• Successful consolidation of the quality departments between MX manufacturing divisions, Mold manufacturing.

From 2010 – 2013
Instituto para el Desarrollo emprendedor
Bachelors of Business administration

From Jan -2018- Aug-2019 (completed)
INIDE Universidad
Master of Business Administration

From Jan -2020- Dec-2022 (Completed)
INIDE Universidad
BS of Industrial Engineering