President - General Aluminum @ (January 2019 - December 2020)
Vice President General Motors CBU, Vice President and Global Account Director - FCA Business Unit @ (May 2018 - December 2018)
Vice President - FCA Business Unit - Faurecia Interior Systems @ (January 2017 - May 2018)
Senior Director - Global FCA Business Unit, Electric Vehicle Business Unit @ Takata (April 2012 - March 2017)
Director - New Business Development @ Takata (April 2009 - April 2012)
Director - Military Defense Business Unit @ Takata Protection Systems Inc. (June 2006 - March 2009)
Director - Domestic Application Engineering @ Takata (July 2000 - March 2006)
Thomas Messner Education
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. (Mechanical Engineering)
1993-1995
Clemson University
B.A (Music Performance)
1990-1993
Clemson University
B.S. (Material Engineering)
1989-1993
Thomas Messner Skills
Automotive
Product Development
Lean Manufacturing
Continuous Improvement
Six Sigma
Strategic Planning
Sales Management
Business Strategy
Manufacturing
Engineering
TS16949
Sales
DFMEA
Transportation
Root Cause Analysis
Manufacturing Engineering
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Plastics
Injection Molding
5S
Business Development
Business Unit Growth Strategy
Change Management
Consolidation
Corporate Restructuring
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA)
Design of Experiments
FMEA
Financial Risk Management
GD&T
Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
ISO
ISO/TS 16949
Leadership
Management
Military Defense
Negotiation
New Business Development
New Market Expansion
Operational Excellence
P&L Management
PFMEA
PPAP
Program Management
Stamping
Team Building
Transition Management
Value Stream Mapping
Vehicles
Engineering Management
Marketing
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Dfmea
Integration
Financial Risk
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Fmea
SQL
Cross Functional Team
Cross Functional Team Leadership
Product Engineering
Business Unit Growth
OEMs
APQP
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
Thomas Messner Summary
Thomas Messner, based in St. Louis, MO, US, is currently a Chief Executive Officer at Spartan Light Metal Products. Thomas Messner brings experience from previous roles at ParkOhio Holding Corp., Faurecia and Takata. Thomas Messner holds a 1993 - 1995 M.S. in Mechanical Engineering @ Carnegie Mellon University. With a robust skill set that includes Automotive, Product Development, Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma and more. Thomas Messner has 3 emails and 4 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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