Denis BRILLAT

Industrial Manager - Complex Project Management - Product Development & Industrialization

Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Vaud, Switzerland

About

Industrial Manager with more than 16 years of experience in the mechanical industry and the management of complex projects. Throughout my career at Bombardier, Alstom and, more recently, at Services Industriels de Lausanne, I have developed strong expertise in team leadership, continuous improvement and operational performance management. I particularly enjoy working in demanding environments where quality, innovation and people development are key drivers of collective success. Curious and passionate about precision mechanics, I recently completed a continuing education program in watchmaking at the Battenberg Foundation to broaden my skills and explore new professional opportunities.

Experience

  • Unit Manager of MV/LV Engineering and Projects at Services industriels de Lausanne
    Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

    • Coordination and management of medium and low voltage electrical projects (MV/LV). • Ensuring project delivery within defined timelines, budgets, and quality standards. • Leading and overseeing all operational activities within the unit. • Managing and developing the unit’s human resources. • Driving and supporting cross-functional and strategic projects. • Providing operational support to senior management, including process development and performance monitoring through KPIs. Training followed: - Being an SiL Ambassador - Collaboration interview : keys of success - Awareness of Hybrid Management - Best electrical practices - SiL Project Management - Module 1 and 2 - Public markets - Leadership Passport Module 1 and 2 - Leadership Passport - Psychological climate - Leading a cross-functional or project team - Emergency measures - First aid and fire extinguishing awarness - Workplace harassment : Let's dare to talk about and act - for managers

  • Expleo Group (Full-time · 6 yrs 4 mos)
    • Project Manager / Restaurant Vehicle System Engineer - ALSTOM Villeneuve / Zürich
      Oct 2022 - Apr 2023 · 7 mos

      • Understand the detailed functioning of the kitchen system. • Referent and decision maker for modifications and improvements of the vehicle restaurant. • bResolve reliability and non-conformity problems of the vehicle (piping, electrical, mechanical, functional). • Ensure the proper functioning and maintenance of the restaurant vehicle. • Manage the obsolescence of the restaurant vehicle equipment. • Manage contact with suppliers and the end customer. • Manage the stakeholders on the restaurant vehicle interventions.

    • Product Manager / Studies and prototypes coordinator & mechanical reliability - ALSTOM Villeneuve
      Aug 2019 - Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Support and coordination of validation tests of technical solutions (proposed by ENG) on vehicle. • Support the ENG team in prototyping and testing solutions on trains. • Coordinate the various interlocutors and ensure the presence of the equipment and the vehicle necessary for the smooth running of the tests. Investigation and proposal of technical solutions to the problems reported by SBB (via meeting collocation), PI / QA (via MAP meeting) and the purchasing department. • Investigation, validation of the solution, • Creation of the documentation and writing of the Change Request for implementation. Responsible for the mechanical reliability points of trains in operation. • Recovering customer points of mechanical unreliability • Analysis of points of unreliability • Proposal of a solution to resolve the points • Creation of Change-Request • Following the Change-Request's application on the retrofit

    • Manager of Quality Production Team - BOMBARDIER Transportation Villeneuve (Switzerland)
      Mar 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Responsible of Quality Production on the head vehicle line and management of teams, Site Villeneuve for Twindexx SBB FV Dosto Project

  • Assystem (Full-time · 3 yrs 4 mos)
    • Team leader Production Support for Methods Electric - BOMBARDIER Transportation Villeneuve (Switz.)
      Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr

      Team leader of Production Support team in Methods Electric service

    • Production Support for engineering service - BOMBARDIER Transportation Villeneuve (Switzerland)
      Sep 2013 - Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      - Engineering Support in production, problems analysis and transfer modification to Engineering department- project Dosto Twindexx. - Modification of tree structure and drawing of family compartment assembly plans - Dosto Twindexx project. - Relay between the purchasing department - the suppliers and the engineering on the technical questions related to the realization of the parts ordered by the purchases - project Dosto Twindexx.

  • Assystem (5 yrs 8 mos)
    • Mecanical designer CAD - ALSTOM Transport La Rochelle
      May 2013 - Jul 2013 · 3 mos

      Processing of modifications requests on the NTV project on the interior layout of the train.

    • Mecanical Designer CAD - FIVE CINETIC Nantes
      Jan 2013 - Apr 2013 · 4 mos

      • Detailed design of fluid filling equipment on automobile assembly lines, construction machinery and trucks. • Preliminary design, detailed prototype tooling for dishwashing tests for an American subsidiary of the CINETIC FILLING group. • Detailed design of standard components (fluid reservoir, adapter, hang-up ...)

    • Mecanical Designer CAD - ALSTOM TransportTarbes
      Jul 2011 - Jan 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

      • Preliminary design, detailed and pre-series of an engine block, modification following functional evolutions, and malfunctions of manufacture and assembly. • Development of the winterization kit of the electrical cabinet of a motor cabin, and assembly of a prototype on a cabin cabinet. • Preliminary design, detailed and pre-series on a traction box, inverter box and high voltage box, modified following functional evolutions, and malfunctions of manufacture and assembly.

  • Trainee Mecanical Designer CAD at Altor Industrie
    Apr 2006 - Jun 2006 · 3 mos

    • Internship at the end of the Bachelor's degree at the engineering department, realization of a methodology for modeling and parameterizing CAD sanitary cabins in polyester, and their manufacture in CAM to the final product.