2017 - maintenantBattery plants Transportation. Responsible for 4 plants in Spain, Italy, and Poland. 1300 employees, 15 Mio batteries per year, and 600 Mio EUR budget (125 Mio without components).
Area of responsibility:
* Development of strategy for 4 plants across Europe using VSM/VSD. Implementation of automotive mindset throughout the organization.
* Change of working methods towards the new demands of the market (battery from commodity to key safety and environmental component).
* Building new focus groups to involve all views of different departments. Focus areas: communication, cooperation, networking and motivation.
Successes:
* Secured safety, quality, cost, production and supply chain in whole area of responsibility. Implemented change management mentality.
* Execution of big capacity increase projects for new technology batteries by influencing other managers' support.
* Builder of strong network within directors' level producing maximum results by defining processes, trusting each other and delivering.
Exide Technologies (Germany)
- Plant Manager
2014 - 2017Company agent with power of attorney (Gesamtprokura). 800 employees, 1,8 Mio batteries per year, and 150 Mio EUR budget (50 Mio without components).
Area of responsibility:
* Implementation of relevant KPIs in all areas of the plant. Creation of understanding in all management levels.
* Implementation of CIP and Lean Manufacturing strategy. Creation of understanding within the whole organization and on the shopfloor.
* Implementation of togetherness with the local works council. Creation of other ways of working among departments.
Successes:
* Plant KPIs are the new role model for the European organization. KPI reporting and review process were completely implemented.
* Removal of main bottlenecks of the plant to react faster to customer demands.
* People strategy, development strategy, key positions strategy, way of working strategy, works council strategy completely implemented.
Robert Bosch (India)
- Head of Minifacturing
2012 - 2013@ Plant in Chakan - India: Head of the Minifactory for new generation products.
Main Success:
* Stabilization of plant's deliveries and quality, and sustainable development of local management team supporting team work and individual skill sets.
Robert Bosch (Portugal)
- Head of Technical Department
2010 - 2012@ Plant in Abrantes - Portugal: Engineering and Centre of Competence for Drum Brake. Project Drum Consolidation to develop the plant to double capacity.
Main Success:
* Key member of development group focusing on improving the plant's quality, performance, capacity and organization.
Robert Bosch (Spain)
- Head of Engineering & Maintenance
2006 - 2009@ Plant in Lliçà d'Amunt - Spain: Head of the Process
Engineering & Maintenance group.
Main Success:
* Reorganization of plant's maintenance department.
Robert Bosch (Spain)
- Trainee
2004 - 2006
Cranfield University (UK)
- Consultancy work
2003 - 2004Knowledge Management project for the company Vaillant Hepworth.
EADS (Germany)
- Student
2002 - 2003Research of application opportunities of CAA in the aeronautic environment: development of a new KBE (Knowledge Based Engineering) tool in CATIA v5.
Formations
Universidad Politécnica De Madrid (Madrid)
Madrid2013 - 2019Doctor of Philosophy
In collaboration with the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim (Germany). Topic: Knowledge Management framework based on an Agents Network to support Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing integrating Case-
Based Reasoning and Product Lifecycle Management.
Universidad Politécnica De Madrid (Madrid)
Madrid1996 - 2003Mechanical Engineer
M.Sc. Thesis at Technische Universität München (Germany).
