Eric Kooremans

About

Senior manager operation Janssen Supply Chain Beerse . other expertise: 5 years experience in CAPEX and improvement project management, mainly in pharmaceutical industry.Working closely together with colleagues of J&J sites in virtual Technical Platform for align Technology and sharing information. 8 years experience in the field of occupational safety, health and environment. Product quality responsibilities. Relevant leadership experience in operational/production environment. Strengths/Qualities: Polyvalent profile with strong communication and organizational skills. Passionate for continuous improvement. Committed people manager. Coach and motivator encouraging team spirit. Safety and quality oriented. Customer focused. Entrepreneurial and financial mindset. International experience and multilingual. Specialties: - Lean Manufacturing (J&J) - 2009 - Six Sigma - Green Belt certified - 2000 - Kepner- Tregoe certified -2002 - Flawless Project Exection ( FPX) - 2009 - Right First Time (J&J) - 2005 - Languages: * Dutch (mothertongue) * English (fluent) * French (intermediate) * German (basic)

Experience

• Johnson & Johnson (Full-time · 6 yrs 6 mos)
  • Senior manager
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Sr Manager Project Engineering Advanced Therapy CAR-T Belgium
    Jan 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Engineering lead Advanced Therapies CAR-T Belgium ( Beerse - Ghent)

  • Project Management Lead Value Chain Management
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson (28 yrs 10 mos)
  • Head of technical department, Project and Process Engineering Parenterals Department
    Sep 2011 - Oct 2025 · 14 yrs 2 mos

  • Project & Process Engineer Pharmaceutical Equipment
    Oct 2005 - Oct 2025 · 20 yrs 1 mo

    Accomplishments in CAPEX projects: - purchase, installation and qualification of full automatic syringe packaging line - purchase, installation and qualification of Dry Heat Oven - purchase, installation and qualification of Autoclave - purchase, installation and qualification of 2 new high speed ampoulle and bottle labellers - installation and qualification of full automatic vial packaging line Accomplishments in improvement projects: - OEE ("Overall Equipment Effectiveness") improvement on ampoule packaging lines. - LEAN projects in packaging area - Several Six Sigma (process improvement) projects with proven results on capacity of packaging line

  • Manager Engineering supporting Janssen Supply Chain
    Apr 2012 - Jan 2020 · 7 yrs 10 mos

    Lead of Engineering Technical services including Process, Project & Automatisation for Janssen Supply Chain group Beerse & Olen

• Groupsleader at Weidenhammer Procter & Gamble
  Mar 1996 - Dec 1996 · 10 mos

  Started in new starting company. Responsable for starting new equipments in 5 shift regime.