Vanessa Martinez

Vanessa Martinez is an experienced Production Supervisor at John Deere, overseeing 18 production employees on the 3rd shift in Weld & Primaries since June 2012. Throughout a comprehensive career at John Deere, Vanessa has held various engineering roles including Customer Support Quality Engineer and Manufacturing Engineer, focusing on quality assurance, cross-functional collaboration, process improvement, and automation. Major accomplishments include reducing external non-conformance documentation time by 80% and decreasing defects per machines by 75% through effective problem-solving strategies. Vanessa holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Technology and Operations from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.