Lead and oversee all machinery to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality production performance aligned with business objectives. The Operations Head – Machining is responsible for driving operational excellence across safety, quality, delivery, cost, morale, and environmental indicators while ensuring continuous improvement, manufacturing stability, productivity enhancement, and customer satisfaction.
This role is accountable for the coordination and optimization of manpower, equipment, processes, materials, and resources within the machining operation, ensuring compliance with automotive industry standards and Lean Manufacturing principles.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead and manage all machining production operations, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, delivery, cost, morale, and environmental objectives.
- Develop and execute operational strategies to improve productivity, efficiency, and performance.
- Ensure production targets, KPIs, and customer requirements are consistently achieved.
- Coordinate and optimize manpower, production flow, machine utilization, tooling,



and material handling activities.
- Oversee production planning execution to guarantee on-time deliveries and operational continuity.
- Promote and maintain a strong safety culture focused on zero lost-time incidents and risk prevention.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives through Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma, and TPS methodologies.
- Implement and sustain operational excellence tools including VSM, FIFO, standardized work, line balancing, OEE, Kanban, pull systems, SPC, and root cause analysis.
- Lead cost reduction and productivity improvement projects focused on scrap reduction, labor optimization, cycle time reduction, and process efficiency.
- Support and coordinate new product launches, volume ramp-ups, process validations, and manufacturing readiness activities.
- Ensure compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 14001, customer-specific requirements, and internal quality systems

📌 Operations Manager Machining (García)
🏢 Nemak
📍 García