Diego Manoel Mafra

Senior Project Manager for Product Development at ALPLA Group | Sustainable Plastic Packaging Specialist

Hard, Vorarlberg, Austria

About

I am a senior product development manager with a strong international track record leading strategic projects in rigid plastic packaging (bottles in PP, HDPE, and PET). I excel in coordinating cross-functional teams and delivering innovative solutions for global markets. With a creative foundation in product design and extensive experience managing projects in industrial environments, I transform ideas into functional and competitive solutions—from concept to production—focused on innovation and operational efficiency. Core Competencies • Project and resource management • Agile methodologies • Leadership, mentoring, and team training • Problem solving techniques • Intercultural communication • Product design and CAD (Siemens NX) • Tools: MS Project, Microsoft Office Suite.

Experience

  • ALPLA Group (14 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Project Manager for Product Development
      Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

      - Project leader for complex and challenging packaging development projects in HDPE and PET. - Application of advanced methods for Project management, objectives and resources planning, scope, timing and budget. - Production molds development and management. - Coordination of cross-regional multidisciplinary activities on a global scale. - Responsible for the successful implementation of the projects in the industrial environment.

    • Product Designer - WEEU
      Aug 2016 - Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Packaging design of bottles, canisters, and basic caps from sketch to CAD development for mold manufacture. - Department’s deputy team leader for Product Design. - Mentor for junior designers; - Lead trainer for the regional design offices in NOAM, LATAM,INDI and EMEA. Having standardized the design training for all the regions.

    • Product Designer - SOAM
      Jun 2012 - Jul 2016 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      Packaging design with main focus on CAD models. * Company's single point of contact for design in South America; * Team member in more than 400 successful packing projects on Extrusion Blow Molding and Stretch Blow Molding; * Support for the core design team from HQ, in times of extraordinary demand.

  • CAD-Designer at TecVent - Ventilação Industrial
    Jan 2012 - Jun 2012 · 6 mos

    Development of projects for industrial ventilation equipments.

  • Industrial Design Intern at Built Industrial Eletrodomesticos
    Aug 2011 - Dec 2011 · 5 mos

    Development of projects for kitchen appliances and its respective marketing material.

  • Public Servant at City Hall of Bombinhas
    Mar 2002 - Dec 2011 · 9 yrs 10 mos

    Health Surveillance Agency Inspector

  • Summer jobs at (various)
    Jan 1992 - Mar 2002 · 10 yrs 3 mos

    Savories seller, paperboy, bellboy, flyers distributor, arcade cashier, door-to-door seller, dive experiences seller, waiter, renter of beach umbrellas, hawkers inspector