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Japheth Sean Woodworth

EldoradoPark,South Africa

Summary

Accomplished quality systems manager with extensive expertise in quality system auditing, product testing procedures, and validation protocol execution. Proficient in software quality control and automation tools, with a strong background in ISO 9001:2015 standards, lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma methodologies. Demonstrated leadership prowess in strategic planning, leading cross-functional teams, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Adept at training and mentoring teams, managing supplier quality control, and ensuring customer satisfaction through effective communication and conflict resolution. Committed to ethical decision making, time management, and achieving business objectives through analytical thinking and resourcefulness.

Overview

37
37
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Quality Assurance Engineer,

Excalibur Vehicle Accessories Pty Ltd
Roodepoort, Gauteng
01.2007 - Current
  • Medical Aid: Comprehensive medical aid benefits
  • Pension: Retirement savings plan
  • Performance Bonus: Bonus based on individual and team performance
  • Reason for Leaving:
  • Relocation: Company relocation to Pinetown
  • Retrenchment: End-of-contract retrenchment
  • Better Benefits: Seeking better benefits and opportunities for growth and development, Audit and Compliance: Develop and monitor the annual audit plan, conduct supplier/vendor audits, and report compliance violations
  • Risk Management: Identify and report non-compliance trends, analyze the cost of non-compliance, and provide recommendations for corrective actions
  • Quality Management: Verify implementation of policies and procedures, monitor progress action plans, and conduct follow-ups on reported findings
  • Training and Awareness: Provide employee training on compliance topics, coordinate awareness training, and disseminate written policies and procedures
  • Reporting and Documentation: Prepare and update audit reports, maintain documentation of compliance activities, and perform document quality checks
  • Bench Marking: Attend client forum meetings, collaborate with clients and colleagues, and develop improvements in communication and compliance standards
  • Requirements:
  • Strong knowledge of ISO 9001, 14001
  • Fostered a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
  • Upheld confidentiality and data security standards throughout all QA procedures.
  • Maintained up-to-date documentation, facilitating smoother audits.
  • Collaborated on cross-functional teams for comprehensive product evaluation.

Quality Assurance Supervisor

  • I was responsible for ensuring the quality of products and processes within the organization
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Quality Planning: Implemented and maintained quality plans, ensured technical instructions were displayed, and measuring/recording equipment was calibrated
  • Inspection and Testing: Conducted patrol inspections, evaluated last-off products, and ensured inspection status was applied throughout the process
  • Non-Conformance Management: Stopped processes producing non-conforming products, requested corrective action, and submitted detailed reports highlighting discrepancies
  • SPC Chart Monitoring: Monitored SPC charts, applied corrective actions to out-of-control conditions, and ensured processes were in control and capable
  • Record Keeping: Ensured all records were complete, accurate, and adequately archived for easy retrieval
  • Receiving Inspection: Ensured receiving inspection function conformed to procedural requirements, and all goods were checked against relevant specifications
  • Audits and Compliance: Conducted process audits, system audits, supplier audits, and ensured compliance with TS16949 and ISO standards.

Operations Manager

JP Smit
  • Quality Management: Implement, administer, and supervise the Quality Management System (QMS) in accordance with ISO 9001:2000 and TS16949 standards
  • Team Supervision: Supervise a team of 8 Quality Control Inspectors to ensure effective quality control processes
  • Audits and Compliance: Conduct QMS audits, supplier/vendor audits, process audits, and product audits to ensure compliance with TS16949 and MS 9000 standards
  • Calibration and Verification: Ensure calibration and verification of instruments and equipment to maintain accuracy and reliability
  • Customer Returns and Problem-Solving: Analyze customer returns, generate G8D problem-solving reports, and conduct Top 5 Pareto analyses to identify areas for improvement
  • APQP, PPAP, and Projects: Manage Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), and projects related to customer deviations, concessions, and supplier visits
  • Technical Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including 2D drawings on Visio package
  • Industry Expertise:
  • Mining Industry: Approve screens used in the mining industry for Vi-pro, a 1st-tier supplier to various mining industries
  • Benefits:
  • Salary: Competitive salary package
  • Provident Fund: Retirement savings plan
  • Medical Aid: Comprehensive medical aid benefits
  • Annual Bonus: Performance-based bonus
  • Reason for Leaving:
  • Branch Relocation: Company branch relocation
  • Better Benefits: Seeking better benefits, market-related salary package, and opportunities to expand skills and knowledge.

ISO/Safety Auditor;Process Auditor;System Auditor;Quality Technician Supervisor and Receiving Inspector

  • Quality Planning: Implement and maintain quality plans, ensure technical instructions are displayed, and measuring/recording equipment is calibrated
  • Inspection and Testing: Conduct patrol inspections, evaluate last-off products, and ensure inspection status is applied throughout the process
  • Non-Conformance Management: Stop processes producing non-conforming products, request corrective action, and submit detailed reports highlighting discrepancies
  • SPC Chart Monitoring: Monitor SPC charts, apply corrective actions to out-of-control conditions, and ensure processes are in control and capable
  • Record Keeping: Ensure all records are complete, accurate, and adequately archived for easy retrieval
  • Receiving Inspection: Ensure receiving inspection function conforms to procedural requirements, and all goods are checked against relevant specifications
  • Audits and Compliance: Conduct process audits, system audits, supplier audits, and ensure compliance with TS16949 and ISO standards
  • Technical Skills:
  • Engineering Drawing Interpretation: Interpret complex engineering drawings
  • TS16949 Implementation: Implement and maintain TS16949 quality management system
  • Auditing: Conduct internal and external audits to ensure compliance with quality standards
  • Benefits:
  • Medical Aid: Comprehensive medical aid benefits
  • Pension: Retirement savings plan
  • Performance Bonus: Performance-based bonus
  • Reason for Leaving:
  • Company Relocation: Company relocation to Pine-town
  • Retrenchment: End-of-contract retrenchment
  • Better Benefits: Seeking better benefits, opportunities to expand skills and knowledge.

Supervisor

SA Philips
  • SMD Programming and Quality Control, Team Supervision: Supervise a team of 15 staff members responsible for programming SMD machines
  • Quality Control: Maintain all test, inspection, and Statistical Process Control (SPC) procedures
  • Production Target Management: Meet production target deadlines and ensure timely delivery of products
  • Machine and Process Capabilities: Conduct machine and process capabilities studies as requested
  • Circuit Drawing Interpretation: Interpret complex circuit drawings with close tolerances
  • Benefits:
  • Medical Aid: Comprehensive medical aid benefits
  • Pension: Retirement savings plan
  • Reason for Leaving:
  • Company Closure: SA Philips closed down operations.

Production Foreman

  • As a Setter, I was responsible for setting up machines for production, performing first-off inspections, and ensuring quality control
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Machine Setup: Set up machines for production, performed first-off work, and collaborated with various departments
  • Planning: Coordinated setup on the shop floor across different departments
  • Inspection: Learned various measuring techniques, issued first-off inspections, and calibrated gauges
  • Quality Control: Inspected products, interpreted schematic and circuit drawings, and performed torque tests
  • Benefits:
  • Medical Aid
  • Pension
  • Reason for Leaving:
  • Company relocated to Port Elizabeth
  • Quality Assurance - Manager General Manager, SHEQ Risk Management Frans Steyn - Mpho Matshane, Ntuthuko Generation
  • Office: +27(0)11 601 1000 | Direct: +27(0)11 601 1115 | Fax: +27(0)11 601 1415 | Mobile:

Quality Assurance Manager / SHERQ General Manager

  • Implement and Maintain Quality Management System: Develop, implement, and maintain a best-practice quality management system consistent with the integrated Babcock SHEQ Risk Management system and ISO 9001:2008/2015 standards
  • Ensure Compliance with Quality Standards: Manage the consistent application and implementation of the Babcock quality management system across all sites, focusing on key activities such as resource management, process control, welding control, and documentation
  • Conduct Audits and Investigations: Perform regular audits to measure conformance with approved processes and standard practices, and conduct process investigations to identify areas for improvement
  • Analyze Trends and Develop Corrective Actions: Analyze audit and investigation findings, identify trends, and develop/recommend corrective actions to ensure effective quality management systems and on-site processes
  • Monitor Corrective Actions: Ensure the correction of identified non-conformances in accordance with Babcock's corrective and preventive action procedures
  • Provide Guidance and Assistance: Offer guidance and assistance in generating and maintaining process control documentation, ensuring compliance with relevant codes and contract specifications.

Support Quality Assurance Manager

  • Assist the Quality Assurance Manager with project quality engineering and other tasks as required
  • Key Performance Indicators:
  • Effective implementation and maintenance of the quality management system
  • Compliance with quality standards and regulations
  • Identification and correction of non-conformances
  • Continuous improvement of quality management systems and processes.

Compliance Manager

Babcock Ntuthuko Engineering (Pty Ltd)

Quality Assurance Engineer

Babcock Ntuthuko Engineering (Pty Ltd)
09.2010 - 01.2022

Quality Manager / Plant Manager

Excalibur Vehicle Accessories Pty Ltd
02.2007 - 10.2009
  • As a Quality Assurance Engineer, I was responsible for ensuring the implementation and maintenance of the TS16949 quality system, conducting audits, and monitoring compliance
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Quality System Management: Implemented and maintained TS16949 quality system, monitored and updated the system as required
  • Audits and Compliance: Conducted QMS audits, supplier/vendor audits, process audits, product audits, and laboratory testing audits to ensure compliance with TS16949 and MS 9000 standards
  • Calibration and Verification: Controlled and verified measuring instruments and procedures, conducted Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) studies
  • Quality Management: Monitored and controlled PARs, CARs, concessions, and supplier visits, prepared and analyzed quality reports
  • SHEQ System: Continuously updated and integrated SHEQ procedures, policies, and processes, assisted with accident investigations and reporting
  • Training and Awareness: Provided quality awareness training to personnel
  • Additional Responsibilities: Participated in customer annual site assessment audits, provided information for monthly QOS meetings, completed SHEQ process mapping, conducted capability studies, and performed regular shop floor patrols
  • Key Skills:
  • Quality system management
  • Auditing and compliance
  • Calibration and verification
  • Quality management
  • SHEQ management
  • Training and awareness
  • Process mapping
  • Capability studies
  • Shop floor patrols

ISO/Safety Auditor & Quality Assurance Engineer

IG Tooling Light Engineering
07.2005 - 12.2006

Quality Assurance Engineer & Auditor

Federal Mogul Powertrain Systems
02.1997 - 06.2005

Quality Manager / Plant Manager, Job Titles ISO/Safety Auditor, Process Auditor, System Auditor / Quality Technician

Federal Mogul
02.1997 - 06.2005
  • As an ISO/Safety Auditor & Quality Assurance Engineer, I was responsible for ensuring supplier quality, conducting audits, and implementing quality systems
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Supplier Quality Management: Investigated, analyzed, and resolved supplier quality problems through audits, defect trend analysis, and continuous improvement projects
  • Supplier Audits: Conducted supplier audits to drive process standardization, waste elimination, and continuous improvement
  • Quality System Implementation: Implemented and maintained TS16949 Quality System, ensuring adherence to standards
  • Audits and Compliance: Conducted QMS audits, supplier/vendor audits, process audits, product audits, and laboratory testing audits
  • Calibration and Verification: Controlled and verified measuring instruments, procedures, and laboratory testing
  • Quality Management: Monitored and controlled PARs, CARs, concessions, and supplier visits
  • Quality Reporting: Prepared and analyzed reports, including G8D problem-solving reports and Top 5 Pareto analyses
  • SHEQ System: Continuously updated and integrated SHEQ procedures, policies, and processes
  • Additional Responsibilities:
  • Communicated engineering and manufacturing specifications to supplier technical teams
  • Managed suppliers to prevent regressions with new processes
  • Aided in new, probationary, and rejected supplier transition processes
  • Traveled to supplier locations to resolve quality problems
  • Ensured compliance with environmental aspects and impacts
  • Benefits:
  • Market-related salary package
  • Comprehensive pension and medical aid benefits
  • Performance-based annual bonus
  • Reason for Leaving:
  • Seeking better benefits and opportunities for growth and development
  • Seeking a market-related salary package
  • Seeking opportunities to expand skills and knowledge in quality assurance and safety auditing

Quality Assurance Engineer & Auditor

Federal Mogul Powertrain Systems
Johannesburg
06.1991 - 07.1996

Production Supervisor

SA Philips
06.1991 - 07.1996

Setter

Tek-Industrials (PTY) Limited
12.1987 - 09.1990

Education

Standard Passed - N3

EldoradoPark Senior Secondary School
01.1981 - 01.1985

B tech Quality and Full QMS Certificate - Total Quality Management, Statistical Quality Control, ISO 9000

Production Management Institute of South Africa (PMI)
04.1999 - 04.2002

Skills

  • Quality system auditing
  • Product testing procedures
  • Validation protocol execution
  • Process validation methods
  • Software quality control
  • Automation tools proficiency
  • Quality systems management
  • ISO 9001:2015 familiarity
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Six Sigma Certification
  • Strategic planning
  • Leading cross-functional teams
  • Training and mentoring
  • Results-Driven approach
  • Leadership prowess
  • Team Leadership
  • Interdepartmental coordination
  • Conflict resolution
  • Workforce motivation
  • Change management
  • Business acumen
  • Industry awareness
  • Supplier quality control
  • Quality assurance testing
  • Data evaluation
  • Project management
  • Risk analysis
  • Corrective action planning
  • Financial reporting
  • Budget management
  • Data analysis
  • Influential communication
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Active listening
  • Public speaking
  • Customer satisfaction orientation
  • Customer Service
  • Cultural awareness
  • Stress management
  • Ethical decision making
  • Time management
  • Organization
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Process mapping
  • Manufacturing improvement strategies
  • Database management
  • Equipment maintenance protocols
  • Effective delegation
  • Analytical thinking
  • Risk assessment
  • Procurement processes
  • Initiative taking
  • Resourcefulness
  • Continuous improvement focus

Certification

  • SVQ Level 3: Lead Auditor, DQS, South Africa
  • Lean Six Sigma, USB Executive Development
  • White Belt Certificate
  • Certificate in Construction Regulations
  • CUM LAUDE ISO 9001:2015
  • Certified Internal Auditor
  • FOUNDATION OF QUALITY Problem Solving Course
  • ISO TS INTERNAL SYSTEMS AUDITOR
  • ISO 14001 2015 IMS Lead Auditor

Custom

  • Mclord Ndaba, Quality Manager, Federal Mogul, (011) 766-2100 Ext. 1416, 082 337 0773
  • Jose Celestino, SHEQ Manager, IG Tooling, (011) 864-5073, 084 247 0743
  • Trefon Katakuzinos, Quality Manager, Excalibur Vehicle Accessories Pty Ltd, 011 764-6078, 082 821 6269
  • JP Smit, Operations Manager, Excalibur Vehicle Accessories Pty Ltd, 011 764-6078, 084 581 2335
  • Mpho Matshane, General Manager, SHEQ Risk Management, Ntuthuko Generation, +27(0)11 601 1162, +27(0)72 036 6739, mpho.matshane@babcock.co.za
  • Frans Steyn, Quality Assurance Manager, Ntuthuko Generation, +27(0)11 601 1000, +27(0)76 0483177, frans.steyn@babcock.co.za

Personal Information

  • ID Number: 6711225452081
  • Health Status: Excellent
  • Date of birth: 11/22/67
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: South African
  • Marital status: Married

Timeline

Quality Assurance Engineer

Babcock Ntuthuko Engineering (Pty Ltd)
09.2010 - 01.2022

Quality Manager / Plant Manager

Excalibur Vehicle Accessories Pty Ltd
02.2007 - 10.2009

Quality Assurance Engineer,

Excalibur Vehicle Accessories Pty Ltd
01.2007 - Current

ISO/Safety Auditor & Quality Assurance Engineer

IG Tooling Light Engineering
07.2005 - 12.2006

B tech Quality and Full QMS Certificate - Total Quality Management, Statistical Quality Control, ISO 9000

Production Management Institute of South Africa (PMI)
04.1999 - 04.2002

Quality Assurance Engineer & Auditor

Federal Mogul Powertrain Systems
02.1997 - 06.2005

Quality Manager / Plant Manager, Job Titles ISO/Safety Auditor, Process Auditor, System Auditor / Quality Technician

Federal Mogul
02.1997 - 06.2005

Quality Assurance Engineer & Auditor

Federal Mogul Powertrain Systems
06.1991 - 07.1996

Production Supervisor

SA Philips
06.1991 - 07.1996

Setter

Tek-Industrials (PTY) Limited
12.1987 - 09.1990

Standard Passed - N3

EldoradoPark Senior Secondary School
01.1981 - 01.1985

Quality Assurance Supervisor

Operations Manager

JP Smit

ISO/Safety Auditor;Process Auditor;System Auditor;Quality Technician Supervisor and Receiving Inspector

Supervisor

SA Philips

Production Foreman

Quality Assurance Manager / SHERQ General Manager

Support Quality Assurance Manager

Compliance Manager

Babcock Ntuthuko Engineering (Pty Ltd)

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