Industry Practice

Our business is automotive industry people. The unique characteristics of the automotive supplier community demand a specialist who understands the environment where you conduct your business. We have the industry expertise and resources in our Tier One Automotive Practice to meet your needs in a variety of functional areas at the C-level, VP, Director & Manager Levels:

Senior Management
Lean Manufacturing
Design Engineering
Controls & Automation
Materials Management
Purchasing

Production Control
Sales & Marketing
Quality Assurance
Quality Engineering
Maintenance Engineering
Finance & Admin

Our clients range from private, regional providers to globally recognized public corporations

Recent Retained & Priority Assignments

  • President
  • V.P. Finance
  • V.P. Sales & Marketing
  • PLC Engineer
  • V.P. Operations
  • Director of Quality Assurance
  • Engineering Manager
  • Design Engineering Manager
  • V.P. Manufacturing
  • Lean Manufacturing Engineer
  • Materials Manager
  • Supplier Quality Engineer

Practice Leader

Name: Mike Chitwood
Practice:Supply Chain Management
Phone: 330.666.3354 ext. 121
Email: MChitwood@MRIExecutiveSolutions.com

Mike leads our Supply Chain Management practice with an emphasis on Purchasing, Procurement, Transportation and Logistics including disciplines in sales & operations planning, inventory management, network optimization, and import & export management segments. As an accomplished Executive Recruiter partnering with Fortune 500 organizations, Mike understands the many definitions of Supply Chain as well as the complexity that may be required to customize solutions for his client’s talent acquisition needs.

Mike brings a global perspective to his clients and candidates, having served in a variety of technical positions for European automotive manufacturers for over 14 years.

Mike's keen organizational and analytical skills - and passion for winning - enable him to accurately assess his clients' talent acquisition requirements and partner with them to customize solutions to meet those requirements. Just as successful companies are profit-driven, Mike is driven by results, produced through placing high-performing individuals in mission-critical positions for his clients. Given his strong work ethic, problem-solving ability, interpersonal skills and personal integrity, there is no one better qualified to match well-managed organizations with talented individuals.

Name: Deb Lucia
Practice:Lean Manufacturing & Engineering
Phone: 330.666.3354 ext. 134
Email: deb@MRIExecutiveSolutions.com

Deborah leads our Lean Manufacturing Practice. She has over 20 years manufacturing experience in engineering and consulting, focusing on lean implementations with Fortune 500 companies. An accomplished Industrial Engineer and Manager, Deb's background in continuous improvement encompasses both TPS & Six Sigma including Standardized Work, Poka Yoke, JIT, Kaizen, 5S, Cell Design, PFMEA, DFMEA, Kanban, SMED, Systematic Plant Layout & Design - Greenfield & Brownfield, Visual Factory, Simulation, Value Engineering and Value Stream Mapping.

This portfolio of expertise enables Deb to execute search assignments with the efficiency, precision and accountability demanded by the disciplines in which she is skilled. This has created demand for Deb's services to recruit Lean Manufacturing leaders and senior-level operations and engineering executives for manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace and food industries.