Joao Vilar

Head of Hot Preparation

Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

About

Experience

  • Continental (Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany)
    • Head of Hot Preparation
      Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    • Project Engineer
      May 2021 - Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Project Engineer at Continental Tire the Americas, LLC
    May 2018 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Area Engineer at Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Aug 2011 - May 2018 · 6 yrs 10 mos

    • Creates machine and equipment standards for worldwide tyre curing production machinery. • Responsible for machine pre-inspection (at the supplier’s premises) and machine acceptance (in the plants). • Responsible for providing engineering support for greenfield and brownfield projects in Malaysia, Brazil, Ecuador, Russia, France, Portugal and the Czech Republic. • Member of the core team for Improvement of Safety at Curing Presses (ISCP) project. Responsible for creating the book of requirements and also a plant sponsor, supporting the plants with project issues. • Co-assignor in the Global Manufacturing Assignment (GMA) September 2014 Trainee Pool for the project entitled “Smart operations in the curing area”.

  • Production Engineer at Groz Beckert Portuguesa Lda
    Dec 2007 - Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    • Production planning manager, responsible for scheduling and putting into production all the orders for items to be manufactured. • Resource optimisation and time evaluation studies performed on all machinery with the goal of characterising the workers areas of responsibility. • Responsible and coordinator of the foremen of the production team. • Productivity optimisation, considering new plant and machinery layouts, and how to handle the processed material and product and material flow. • Efficiency audits, realised in different areas of the plant to ensure that the process flow determined by central quality is according to the defined guidelines. • In charge of 70 people, being responsible for Team Management, Resources Assignment and creating flexibility through ongoing employee training, allowing the workers to work across different production areas. • Responsible for implementing, and validating and managing a system for assessing employees work performance. • Responsible for repair and maintenance activities and introducing regular maintenance plans for all machinery under my responsibility.