MC Assembly® Names New Vice President of Quality and Engineering
Melbourne, Florida (PRWEB) February 29, 2016 -- Veteran executive Jose Sierra has been appointed vice president of Quality and Engineering for contract manufacturer MC Assembly, the company announced today.
Sierra, who will report directly to Chief Operating Officer Luis Ramirez, will lead MC Assembly’s technical initiatives across the company’s sites in the United States and Mexico, supporting the operations strategy and market growth of the company.
“We’re delighted to have Jose join our team,” Ramirez said. “His experience and strong technical background will help MC Assembly continue to enhance its value to its customers. We believe his breadth of experience in the markets we focus our resources on will accelerate our Lean Journey, leveraging the large financial investments we made in Lean in 2015.”
Sierra previously served as vice president of Customer Satisfaction and Continuous Improvement at Lighting Science Group, where he was responsible for the reliability, compliance and safety of the product life cycle and the continuous improvement activities for multiple factories in Mexico, China and India.
Prior to Lighting Science Group, Sierra spent many years associated with the defense industry with industry leaders such as Lockheed Martin and DRS Technologies. During that time, he served in several leadership roles in the Quality, Reliability and Continuous Improvement areas.
Sierra holds a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering and management systems, a Master of Science in quality and reliability and a PhD in industrial engineering and management systems from the University of Central Florida. He is also a certified Master Black Belt.
A national leader in contract manufacturing, MC Assembly currently has operations in Billerica, Mass., Melbourne, Fla., and Zacatecas, Mexico. In January, the company almost doubled its manufacturing presence in Billerica, moving to a new 58,000-square-foot manufacturing space.
For more information about MC Assembly, please visit http://www.mcati.com.
About MC Assembly
MC Assembly (http://www.mcati.com), based in Melbourne, Fla., with operations in Billerica, Mass., Melbourne, Fla., and Zacatecas, Mexico, is a national leader in the contract manufacturing arena with annual revenues of approximately $200 million. It provides turnkey solutions to original equipment manufacturers and focuses on assembly of medium volume, medium mix printed circuit boards assemblies (PCBAs) and box builds. MC Assembly's capabilities include surface mount and pin-through-hole interconnection technologies, PCB and box build DFM, DFT, DFA engineering, in-circuit, functional and environmental testing, full box-build and direct order fulfillment.
Al Stevens, The SPR Agency, http://thespragency.com/, +1 (480) 648-1770, [email protected]
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