Richard Meunier

PhD in Micro-Electronics and Clean Room Expert

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

About

Je suis une personne énergique, enjouée et motivée, qui a développé une approche mature et efficace vis à vis de l’ensemble des tâches que j’entreprends et des situations auxquelles je suis confronté. Docteur en microélectronique j’ai de fortes capacités d'analyse, de recherche et d'adaptation, couplées avec de grandes dispositions à travailler en équipe. Je suis animé au quotidien par une curiosité toujours croissante et une constante volonté d’améliorer mon travail et mes connaissances. A travers mes années d'expériences associatives et mes emplois récents en tant que responsable, j'ai également développé de fortes capacités en tant que chef d'équipe, tout en améliorant ma capacité à gérer des responsabilités élevées et à résoudre des problèmes.

Experience

  • Engineering Facilities Project Lead at Bio-Rad Laboratories
    Oct 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Bio-Rad is a global leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing a broad range of innovative products for the life of science research and clinical diagnostics markets. I was hired by Bio-Rad as a project lead to supervise and coordinate all the facilities aspect of two key manufacturing projects in a clean room environment (ISO 7 and 8), through the complete revamping of an entire building. Activities consisted in: - Redacting URS for the all facilities and utilities needs. - Contacting and coordinating the different suppliers and construction companies, supervising their on-site activities. - Ensuring proper communication with and between all stakeholders. - Tracking costs and expenses, with comprehensive budget management. - Finding solutions and establishing contingency plans to respect timelines. - Assisting manufacturing and facilities teams on local projects (energy monitoring system, equipment installation, energetic efficiency, etc).

  • Project Manager at Safran Sensing Technologies Switzerland
    Feb 2023 - Oct 2023 · 9 mos

    STS is a world-leading supplier of high-performance MEMS accelerometers, gyroscopes, and inertial measurement units for demanding applications in the Defence, Aerospace, Industrial, and Commercial markets. Following a water infiltration problem, SSTS hired me as project manager to supervise the replacement of all the impacted machines in an ISO 5 production environment: - Identifying and contacting suppliers, obtaining quotes and establishing timelines. - Writing of dedicated URS, SAT/FAT protocols and planning. - Managing and organizing internal and external resources to ensure on-time project delivery, within budget. - Ensuring proper communication between stakeholders, with weekly internal meetings and regular external calls.

  • Project Manager at Engineering Solutions and Services
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr

    As a consulting company, Engineering Solutions and Services provides high level project management for multi-level complex industrial and engineering projects, from designing until commissioning, with turnkey factory delivery. I was supervising the construction, installation and commissioning of a Milk Powder Plant in Rwanda, on behalf of our client INYANGE. My activities consisted in: - Planning to coordinating the different off-site and on-site activities. - Coordinating teams between all the different suppliers and contractors. - Supervising proper execution of civil works based on requirements and drawings. - Supervising installation and commissioning of equipment according to GxP. - Taking key decisions regarding design and installation. - Supporting the client and implementation teams on and off-site on a daily basis

  • Quotient Limited (2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Tech Transfer Engineer
      Mar 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Associate Process Manufacturing Engineer
      Oct 2019 - Mar 2020 · 6 mos

  • MEMS-ASIC Integration Engineer at Aleva Neurotherapeutics SA
    May 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

    En tant qu'ingénieur intégration MEMS-ASIC j'ai pu : - Développer et fabriquer des MEMS flexibles basés sur de nouvelles architectures pour de la stimulation cérébrale profonde et du monitorage localisé. - Intégrer l'ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) dans le design du MEMS et effectuer des tests in-vitro, les in-vivo étant prévus dans un futur proche. - Assister en QA et QC dans le but d'obtenir le marquage CE. - M'adapter et contribuer au développement et à l'excellence de la start-up. - Travailler efficacement dans le cadre de mes prévisions budgétaires et leurs limites.