Jan Zlatar

In this role I lead the company´s manufacturing development and standardization efforts over the manufacturing units located in all continents, providing them state of art technologies, lean manufacturing processes and procedures, technical support, quality, manufacturing and design competence through our core team, with the aim of achieving a high level of standardized manufacturing footprint and product quality with high manufacturing performance and profitable growth.

Main Responsibilities: Drive Quality improvements in product line manufacturing units (7) with development of new control equipment such as NDT, dimensional measurement machines as well as contactless measuring technology. I was daily in contact with major OEM´s (VW, GM…) handling customer complaints, warranty issues, preparing various internal and external audits, generating 8D reports and implementing corrective actions on the shop floors.

Responsible for material flow internally and externally. Daily contact with all automotive units around the world, all their customer service representatives and suppliers, negotiating delivery times, discussing and making forecasts to make sure the production and deliveries run well at all times, avoiding broken promises.