Wettingen, Aargau, Switzerland
Continue to work in a challenging world by bringing my experiences and my personal skills to an international company. Specialties: - international technical resolutions - Project management - Temperature management system - Production quality oriented - Change management in R&D
New country, new sectors, new areas of responsibility, this is my new challenge within a human being group where personal skills are beyond technics to match with our final customer personality. Luxe is everything you wish, when you wish. Hence, our job is to handle a wish up to reality. Heading almost 10 projects fo different brands of the group, i put all my energies to focus on delivrables, from marketing opportunity upto delivery goods, managing resources in all departments of the business unit. My main roles are: > Focus planning > Focus book of specifications > Focus on customers relationships > Focus on quality for product, project, and colleagues environment > Focus budget and expenses > Focus prices efficiency > Focus on Deliverables of all departments My projects are all sized differently. From one shot topic, couple units per year to unders per year; this is making me thrilled to strive leading to perfection into such context. Products are luxurious watches mouvements.
Following the challenge passed with the prototype management i did around the world, i had the opportunity to join back the Renault Trucks (Volvo AB) group as industrial manager to lead upto the final setup and throughput capacity of the engines. New line, built from scratch, i integrated the team during the production start and work cross-functionally (project, R&D, Quality, Purchasing, Supply chain) upto the serial production and the End gate of the project (handover to serial teams). My main actions: > Lead the change management parts from R&D bill of material to production line introduction through a supply chain management. > Highlight the risk management around new part introduction on items like quality, handling, assembly easiness, and PDCA. > Teamwork around tic-time balance to ensure good sequences per station to avoid idle time and bottle neck stations, whatever the engine variants to be produced. > Teamwork on increasing speed of throughput, from 2 engines per shift to 50 engines per shift.
International mission to carry out the whole engine prototype manufacturing activities within a new plant based in India. Challenges passed were: - Integrate a complexe interenational project, led by Volvo AB Japanese team, followed by Renault Trucks french team, with a double manufacturing sites. - Organise worldwilde the prototype manufacturing activity - Manage differences between french, japanese, indian teams - Build up in india all process related to prototypes, from procurement to assembly, within quality and key user mindset. - Steer globaly the suppliers with difficulties - Steer IS/IT tools developments for the joint venture integration into Volvo AB IT world. - Build tools to speed up prototypes dashboard creation and reporting in the indian plant. - High level travels frequency in Asia Worked as consultant, mission finished end december 2012
New partnership vehicle with another automotive car maker, the position of prototype project manager is a great challenge to see all the risks of change management due to different process. - Steer the vehicles validation plans (more than 5 cars into the project) with all departments, in line with the master planning of the vehicle program. - Lead the realisation into the prototype shop or externally - Report expenses and budget
Valeo Climate Control Heating elements for electrical heater in HVAC Build up an alternative offer to a current Valeo supplier by doing it internally in a Valeo China plant. Follow up and steering of action plans with sub-suppliers to integrate new business.