Martin Van Gucht

Operations Manager

Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • Mondelēz International (3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Operations Manager MILKA
      Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Maintenance & Reliability Manager
      May 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Maintenance & Reliability Senior Supervisor at Celanese
    Nov 2022 - May 2023 · 7 mos

    - Responsible for the Maintenance & Reliability activities of the production site. - Member of the site leadership team - Close collaboration with production and engineering managers to ensure site competitiveness - Daily supervision of a Run & Maintain team (+20FTE) and supporting functions - Collect and provide input to engineering team about capital expenditures that are needed to ensure site reliability and productivity - Keep maintenance expenditures in-balance to ensure on-target maintenance budget - Sponsor of ‘contractor safety’ team, 'electrical safety' team and the ‘emergency response’ team - Ensure safe work environment for team and contractors, control adherence to work management practices mastering felt leadership principles

  • DuPont (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Maintenance & Reliability Supervisor
      Aug 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

      - Responsible for the Maintenance & Reliability activities of the production site. - Part of the site leadership team - Close collaboration with production and engineering managers to ensure site competitiveness - Daily supervision of a Run & Maintain team (+20FTE) and supporting functions - Collect and provide input to engineering team about capital expenditures that are needed to ensure site reliability - Keep maintenance expenditures in-balance to ensure on-target maintenance budget - Sponsor of ‘contractor safety’ team and the ‘emergency response’ team - Ensure safe work environment for team and contractors, control adherence to work management practices mastering felt leadership principles

    • Maintenance Supervisor
      Dec 2019 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Lean Continuous Improvement Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Manufacturing Supervisor
      Jan 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

      As a Manufacturing Supervisor I was overseeing a team of 37 FTE's, responsible for executing the dispensing and bin-filling activities at Janssen Latina Operations department. These activities consisted of weighing and proportioning raw materials into the correct quantities foreseen for planned Process Orders, which are Validated as Standard Production Recipes. Within my responsibilities I had to ensure a safe work environment for my team, facilitate their career development with coaching opportunities and enforce adherence to GMP-rules to obtain a best in class quality and compliance of our products throughout the overall production process. Furthermore I introduced a new Performance tool in the dispensing area, as part of the Johnson & Johnson Production System (JJPS) deployment. Intense and effective collaboration with formulation, warehouse, planning and quality departments were crucial in this role to deliver our products on time and address opportunities for improvement.

    • Warehouse Supervisor (Janssen PDMS Beerse) GOLD associate (3rd rotation)
      Dec 2015 - Jan 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Third rotation as a GOLD-trainee in clinical Supply Chain organization of the Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing Sciences (PDMS) department of Janssen Pharmaceutica. Assignment role: Supervisor CSC Warehouse

    • Clinical Supply Chain Manager (Janssen PDMS Beerse) GOLD associate (2nd rotation)
      Apr 2015 - Nov 2015 · 8 mos

      Second rotation in clinical Supply Chain organization of the Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing Sciences (PDMS) department of Janssen Pharmaceutica. Assignment role: clinical Supply Chain Manager

    • Cleaning & Process Validation Engineer (Janssen Supply Chain Italy) GOLD associate (1st rotation)
      Jul 2014 - Apr 2015 · 10 mos

      First Rotation in Pharma department: Janssen Cilag Italy (Latina) Assignment role: Cleaning & Process Validation Project Engineer

  • Intern Syngenta at Syngenta
    Feb 2013 - Sep 2013 · 8 mos