Marc Suarez

Lead assembly operations and engineering for the world's largest dishwasher manufacturing plant: a 1.1 M Sq Ft facility with 3 High speed assembly lines, 2 manufacturing cells, and 1750 employees. Leveraging my experience implementing the Toyota Production System in our Mexico facilities, driving a major cultural change to implement the TPS in an established US Plant. In first 3 months improved assembly yield 4% and First Pass Yield 1%, while lowering labor costs 6%

Represented Whirlpool Mexico in global, cross functional teams overseeing all manufacturing footprint moves to Mexico, including strategy development, business case justification, product development, and flawless execution across the entire supply chain. Led a $60M capacity expansion of the Ramos Arizpe plant, planned the $100M expansions of two plants in Monterrey, Mexico, and optimized the Mexico portion of the supply chain based on Toyota Production System abilities at the Ramos Arizpe Plant.

In addition to manufacturing responsibilities, led the planning group that was overseeing strategic initiatives within Whirlpool Mexico, helping establish a long-term vision for the company and driving each functional area to successfully execute against that vision. Developed and implemented the Customer Excellence and Innovation strategies for Whirlpool Mexico, raising the bar for customer focused revenue growth across all functional areas.