Experience

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  FORMICA

  • São Paulo Area, Brazil

  • Industrial Director

    • May 2013 - Sep 2016
    • São Paulo Area, Brazil

    Responsible for overall industrial areas: capacity planning, materials, production, inventory management, maintenance, quality, utilities, costs, CAPEX projects, HR, logistics, R&D, safety and engineering, with 360 direct and indirect reports.Plant redesigning, creating a continuous process flow with lean manufacturing concept introduction, defining actions to increase sales and maximize profitability.Cost reduction projects 2015: -11% in logistics (-$ 1,2 M), - 23% in returns (-$ 1,3 M), - 37% in overtime ($ - 450 K) and – 18% in packaging (- $ 590 K).

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  DENVER

  • Suzano

  • Plant Manager

    • 2007 - 2013
    • Suzano

    Responsible for acrylic resin plant, leading production, quality, maintenance, engineering, planning, logistics, HR, ESH (Environmental, Safety and Health), with 100 direct and indirect reports.CAPEX project management to increase storage capacity, productive process automation, improvement on equipment availability (OEE). - Customer service level improvement, reaching above 95% OTIF.- Process automatization, quality, productivity and traceability improvement.- New continuous-flow wastewater treatment plant.

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  FIBERWEB-BIDIM

  • São José dos Campos Area, Brazil

  • Operations Manager

    • 2005 - 2007
    • São José dos Campos Area, Brazil

    Management six production lines with spunbond, resinbond and card/nedlepunched technologies.Responsible for industrial operations areas: Production, Quality, Planning, Maintenance, Projects and Safety, with 150 direct reports.- Start-up a new line (USD 4M) on time and on budget which increased capacity by 35%,- Increased 33% on-time-delivery.- 100% multitask operators.

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  DuPont-Cipatex

  • Piracicaba Area, Brazil

  • Operations Manager

    • 2002 - 2005
    • Piracicaba Area, Brazil

    Management of two facilities, 120 people, in charge of Production, Maintenance, Safety and Quality.Startup new nonwovens plant with Spunlace technologie. Team building through the encouragement of iniciatives and sense of responsibility.- Increased equipment efficiency at Needlepunched plant by 50%.- Six Sigma project – 50% downtime reduction.

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  Fibra-DuPont

  • Campinas Area, Brazil

  • Production Leader

    • 1999 - 2002
    • Campinas Area, Brazil

    Management of spinning, beaming and packaging areas – 96 direct/indirect reports.Responsible for high performance working system in order to improve yields/quality.Coordination of task force teams aiming cost reduction and productivity. - Customer service level improvement reaching 98% OTIF .- Developed new packaging with cost saving of US$ 250,000/year;- Packaging inventory reduction by 60%

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  Monsanto

  • São José dos Campos Area, Brazil

  • Manufacturing Supervisor

    • 1993 - 1999
    • São José dos Campos Area, Brazil

    As Manufacturing Supervisor: in charge of plant operations, including: load/unload, storage, production, packaging and shippingAs PPC Supervisor: responsible for planning, scheduling, production control of 6 units, with more than 700 raw material/packaging SKU´s.Chemical responsible for Phosphates unit- Increasing 40% production volume, with 20% reduction in workforce.- 1997 production record (38% above 1996).- Production cost reduction: 58% yield losses, 50% downtime and 75% overtime.- Certification BS 8800 and recertification ISO 9002.

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  Ciba-Geigy

  • São Paulo Area, Brazil

  • Project Engineer

    • 1987 - 1993
    • São Paulo Area, Brazil

    Responsible for promoting technical development in the Process, Maintenance, CAPEX projects, Safety and Environmental areas.- Implementation of bulk storage system in large customers, avoiding sending to the field more than 200,000 plastic packaging/year, saving US$ 700,000/year. - Implemented projects in the Safety and Environmental areas, highlighting sprinkler system for finished goods warehouse (30% saving on insurance) and wastewater treatment with 90% efficiency