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Faurecia Interrior Sytems Shanghai
- Lean CAPEX Director
2011 - 2011
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Valeo Lighting - Foshan Ichikoh Valeo (JV)
- Plant manager
2009 - 2010
2009/10-2010 Foshan Ichikoh-Valeo, Lighting systems manufacturer for automotive industry
China, Guangdong, Canton business unit, 500 employees, 500MRMB of sales in 2010
Design, industrialization and manufacturing of head lamps, rear lamps
Customers:
Nissan and Toyota, 75% of sales from export business, (Japan, Europe, USA, Asia)
Job definition:
Operation manager
Processes:
Injection machines for different polymers, lean process injection and coating lines for composites, varnish coating lines, metallization (aluminum plasma coating machines), assembly cells including robotized gluing cells, vibration, and hot-plate welding equipments.
Missions:
Operation manager in charge of production, projects, quality, logistics, engineering, industrial development, tooling.
Actions:
• Definition of target organization of the company and achievement
• Recruitment and reorganization of management teams to create autonomy in production, to increase reactivity and generate productivity. Creation of Autonomous Production Units
• Creation of Industrial department and definition of the 5 years industrial plan
• Increase of capacity from 2500 lamps/day in January to 7500 lamps/day in June 2010
• Creation of project teams in plateau to improve projects QCD results
• Creation of Logistic department, implementation of flat storage and of Visual Reorder system
• Training of all teams to Valeo methodologies and tools to eradicate non quality (QRQC, non quality containment tools, etc.)
• Deployment of communication activities and tools to involve everyone (QCDM boards, Internal communication boards)
• Deployment of bonus system to promote Kaizen activities
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Hubei Valeo Lighting - China
- Plant manager
2007 - 2009
2007/03-2009 Valeo Lighting Systems, Car parts manufacturer
China, Hubei, Wuhan business unit, 600 employees, 600MRMB of sales in 2008
Design, industrialization and manufacturing of head lamps, rear lamps, fog lamps
Customers:
FAW-Volks Wagen, Nissan, DPCA-PSA, Toyota, Ford, BBDC-Daimler-Chrysler, etc.
Job definition:
Plant manager
Missions:
Operation manager in charge of production, quality, logistics, process engineering, industrial development, tool engineering
419 direct labor, 60 indirect labors
Actions:
• Revision of all manufacturing process from forecasting activity to product delivery
• Revision of supply chain management, application of visual reorder system, kanban, and consignment
• Revision of non quality management, focus on customer claims and non quality costs
• Customer line returns: below 5ppm, 3 months rolling December 2008 (500ppm in July 2007)
• Achievement of industrial plan: surface increase from 6000 to 12500sqm. (Mars 2007-Mars 2008)
• Significant improvement of tidiness and cleanliness of plant, Toyota safety award in April 2009
• Non quality costs/manufactured sales divided by 3 in 2 years • DPCA-PSA awarded best supplier in December 2009
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Valeo Engine Cooling - Hubei - China
- Start-up project manager
2006 - 2007
2006/09-07/03 Valeo Engine Cooling
China Hubei, Shashi business unit (Hubei-China): START-UP
Industrialization and manufacturing of heat exchanger and fan systems for cars
Job definition:
Start-up project manager
Missions:
In charge of business unit settlement, business development
Actions / results:
• September 2006: Investment and recruitment plan definition
• November 2006 : Start of production of PSA – DPCA T1 platform radiators (localized parts)
• December 2006 : nomination on P32L radiator-condenser project
• January 2007 : Start of production of Ford EUCD radiator (localized parts)
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Valeo Switches and Detection Systems - DAV - Annemasse (F-74)
- Autonomous Production Unit manager
2003 - 2006
2003/01-06/08 Valeo Switches and Detection Systems
Annemasse plant (F-74): 500 employees; sales: 100M€
Design and manufacturing of switches for car use (windows opening systems, multi function switches, warnings…)
Job definition:
Autonomous Production Unit (APU) manager
Processes: Automated robotized assembly lines, wave welding, laser welding electronic cards manufacturing, SMD electronic cards automatic assembly machines.
APU Workforce: 63 people including production quality, customer quality, process engineering, maintenance, logistics, supervision and direct labor, sales: 33M€
Actions / results:
• 2005/03 : Average 8 pts APU efficiency increase compared to December 2003
• 2005/03 : APU internal lines rejects divided by 2 since October 2004
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Valeo Security Systems - Nevers (F-58)
- Process engineer - Industrial project manager
1998 - 2003
1999/01-02/12 Valeo Security Systems
Nevers plant (F-58): 1000 employees, sales: 150M€
Design and manufacturing of steering column locks, key sets, door, trunk, glove-box locks.
2001/03-02/12 Industrial transfer project manager
Missions:
In charge of transfer of equipments from Newcastle plant (shutdown) to Never plant. And in charge of first low-cost country sub-contracting activity in Moroco.
Actions / results:
• 2001/04-2002/12: Industrial transfer project manager of the first Nevers low-cost country transfer
1999/01-01/02 Process engineer
Mission:
Define process for new product according to project manager cost and time schedules.
Improve quality and productivity results of existing processes.
Actions / results:
• 99/02-00/12 Process design of the RENAULT / GM X83 lock set, for a 500k€, First U-line in Nevers
• 00/10-01/01 Industrial transfer project manager from Valeo Blyth (GB) to Valeo Nevers plant (F): plant closure.
• 00/03-00/06 Industrial transfer project manager from Valeo Heiligenhaus plant (D) to Valeo Nevers plant (F): plant closure.
