Richárd Bakos

Dynamic, professionally interested, curious and results-driven Quality Specialist with extensive experience of quality initiatives across 15–20 international product development projects in the construction industry tool inserts. Good reputation and proven delivered results in contributing product implementation from concept to market launch through measurement data analysis, cross-functional collaboration with other departments, and strategic quality planning.

Key achievements include:

• Contributed to the development of a high-selling product’s next-generation, contributing to design, quality planning, and innovation, where patenting process is already in progress.
• Played a key role in launching a new product line, overseeing machine qualifications, prototyping, and supplier/plant control plans.
• Led complex measurement and metallographic analysis tasks, identifying root causes and correlations to enhance product reliability, mostly in time-critical environment, where prioritizing was key point.
• Streamlined inspection protocols and implemented standardized testing procedures, significantly improving production consistency and raw material evaluation.
• Delivered actionable insights through results-based trend analysis and root cause investigations, directly increasing production efficiency and quality.
• Supervised and mentored a team of measurement operators and a quality specialist providing guidance, training and support.
• Gained skills of balancing plant and project interests with transparent, clear, continuous communication with international teams.

I have a sharp critical-analytical, quality based mindset and a mostly practical approach to provide results in fast-paced environment.

During these years, I got introduced to the company, technologies, roles, company culture. I got insight to several, production and development related areas from engineering and quality management point of view.

Starting with the 3rd year, I was working as a metallography/geometry lab technician (later on specialist). I gained experience of several investigation methods of non-destructive and destructive test, on macroscopic and microscopic level too as well as of geometrical measurement. I also got experience and know-how in building up investigations in case of different goal of investigations, for example comparison investigation, customer complaint investigation, investigation needs from different department.

I participated in and completed reports of investigations of several steel products, manufactured with different technologies:

• Hot forming technologies,
• Cold forming technologies,
• Several heat treatment technologies,
• Welding technologies,
• Sheet cutting and forming technologies.