Nicholas Tovar

Nicholas Tovar joined Consensus Orthopedics in 2018.

Nick provides executive leadership through hands-on engineering in the areas of quality and regulatory assurance. He implements six sigma and lean quality systems and directs Consensus to obtain regulatory compliance and to become a world class quality organization. He creates and deploys lean, kaizen, 5s, visual factory, poka-yoke, value stream mapping, and cycle time reduction to optimize quality processes. He deploys “Jikoda” quality for continuous improvement through enhanced performance metrics, statistical process control, six sigma, and supply chain mentoring. Nick mentors all levels of Consensus to create continuous improvement policies, methods and establish performance dashboard metrics and is responsible for ensuring compliance with international, federal and state regulations associated with their class 1 and class II implants and instruments. This includes directing the product clearances for USA and international markets.