Jose Dantte

Martinez Mijares
Mobile: 811 495 3640
Email: danttemartinez@hotmail.com; martinezdantte@gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dantte-martinez-a8827011b

Executive professional with +15 years of experience in automotive industry and manufacturing industry
leading +300 HC / People with proven tracked results. I have expertise on Strategic Management,
Production Control & Logistics, Methodological tools, Continuous improvement. With Hard-working
attitude, Proactive, target-oriented, effective leadership and high communications skills. Forceful on
standardizing results through kaizen orientation, achieving up to 85% of effectiveness. KNOW- HOW,
HANDS ON & CAN-DO ATTITUDE. Happily married, two wonderful children, Industrial Engineer, fluent
English.

Professional Background
Smurfit Kappa North America (Production Manager)
Mar 2022 – Jan 2024
• Lead all production process as well of Maintenance and Process Engineer Dept. in Honeycomb
Performance Packaging, leading 135 direct, 15 indirect, 8 administrative people.
• Manager the decision making informed process to enable high management, that drive to
accomplish financial company Goals e.g.: EBIDTA EBITDA 15% 1.5MDD margins through Variable
Production Costs. Managing budgets
• Improve a sustain KPI’s efficiency, productivity, and tooling performance to evaluate complex
production systems and identify 8 wastes to maximize the utilization of human resources.
✓ Reduced labor cost by 16% based on principles and methods of Lean Manufacturing, as lay out
design, facility process workflow, and new equipment selection.
✓ Negotiated directly with internal distribution center to pull off delivery volumes of assembled product
(inventory replenishments) over the next month and maintain a 4 – 6 DOH turnover inventory.
✓ Planned and managed the company from BTS to BTO and Save up to $13K US in monthly basis
✓ Diminished the slow-move RM product inventory by 50% with the successful implementation of
performance packaging process.

Global Safety Textiles | Hyosung (Production Manager – Operations Manager in Hi-Tec Process)
May 2017 – Mar 2022
• Start-up Operation on Mass production environment on Record time (10 months) due customer
incoming demand requirements.
• Responsible for managing Headcount and decrease it in 5% and cost contract avoidance thru multi-
skills program. Steering, coordination and communication of headcount and sales requirements
information in plant for operational purposes.
• Optimize the resources of the Production department, as lining up with financial figures (P&L) and
optimizing spare parts inventory turnover to meet and improve the budget according to the company
guidelines.
• Lead the spare parts purchasing and managements replenishments stocks along planning team (3
people) in order to Identify and maximize every fast mover spare, by forecasting, replenishing, and
improving its OTD.
✓ Significant decrease on Scrap rate (>15%) by establish the multidisciplinary team and implementation
of Lean tools to avoid systemic recurrence; and ensuring and deploy Preventive Maintenance.
✓ Implement and deployment of Manufacturing indicators as cycle, costing and quality methods
(decrease of 19%) by minimizing unnecessary usage of costs on; Over time, utilities, shift production,
effective utilization of resources, maximize return).
✓ Achieved of 4 Sigma Physical Inventory Accuracy.
Toyota – Boshoku de Mexico. (Production Control & Logistics Superintendent)
Oct 2009 – May 2017
• Read, measure and foresee sales increases/decreases sales fluctuations by working closely with BMW
requirements directly reflected on EDI. As Master Scheduler; Issuance of production plans from: BMW
Individuals special orders and/or prototypes, and X3, X4, X5, X6 mass production programs.
• Coordinate RM arrivals against schedule. To investigate pull ahead, pull off, and drop in fluctuations
by EDI, 830 & 862 basis to assure timely raw material from sub-suppliers, and to reflect all in
quotations. To develop and launch BMW Service parts platform supported on EDI´s requirements.
• As Production Control Specialist; the issuance of production plan and service parts plan by foreseeing
incoming requirements on iSupplier Oracle portal. Coordinate, and follow up the production plan thru
SPARKS (Kan-Ban System). As Materials Expeditor, to assure my own service raw materials by PDDR or
Blanket Purchase Orders via Oracle system. As Manufacturing Group Leader: Received and developed
the startup process of the Sienna, Lexus and Highlander Programs, (first leather business in sister
plants) Develop PDCA plan and Achieving goals of less than 300 PPM´s on record time.
✓ Responsible of apply the Conveyor System for first time into the company (first plant into the group
on implement that system, after Yokoten in all the Toyota group). Muda, Mura, Muri projects on
reduction waste once applied conveyor System (directly Impacted on PEFF and KPI plant indicators).
✓ Achieving BTS 98% assurance that the planned production material is in line ready for processing,
including volume and mix.
✓ Achieving Delivery of 95%, within sales / requirements fluctuation around 30%. Support and
Developing of Kaikaku strategies by decreasing FG and RM inventories, with savings of 760,000 usd.

Takata de Mexico. (Manufacturing Engineer & Production Supervisor).

Nov 2007 – Jun 2009
• Deliver the demand and production plan of the SIAB, steering modules for silicon, sewing and folding
processes.
• Responsible of Sew, fold and Module process of Side Impact Air Bag manufacture towards Eurasian
automotive customers as Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, and Subaru.
✓ Decreased direct labor reduction 15 operators (15% of decrease) on floor shop and manufacturing
line by Kaizen on takt times and Yamazumi work balance charts and improves.
✓ Optimized productivity by 12% thru projects for management and usage of the equipment, fixed
costs decrease assisted by KAIKAKU & KAIZEN philosophy, and Support on manage data on MRP (as
Continuous Improvement Specialist in KAIZEN Dept.)

EDUCATION

2012 - (On going) master's in business administration (MBA). Universidad Iberoamericana, (IBERO Laguna)

2003 - 2008 Industrial Engineering Tecnológico Nacional de México Campus Laguna.

CERTIFICATES AND TRAININGS

Ago - Sep 2020 GST | Hyosung - High Technical Process, Charlotte, NC, United States.

Nov - Dec 2017 GST | Hyosung - Benchmarking best practices and Process Design, Shangzu, China

2014 - 2015 Toyota Production System by Mr. President Fumikazu Kamiya, Toyota Boshoku, Torreon
Coah, Mx.

2012 Toyota Business Practices by Mr. Director Hidetoshi Hosoda, Toyota Boshoku North America, Fco. I.
Madero, Coah, Mx.

SKILLS
English | Lean Manufacturing | Project Management | TPS | Six Sigma | Core tools | 8D | AMEF | APQP | PPAP | 5W
| MBA | SAP | MS Office | MS Excel | Supply Chain Management | Sales & Demand Forecasting | Planning | Strategy
management | Business management | Purchasing | Procurement | Imports | Negotiation | Training |