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Fabrice VERICEL

COLOMBES

En résumé

Experienced manager in Operations (Production and Technical Services). Core team member of a major Biotech greenfield project from conceptual design to startup phase.

Specialties:

Management
• Ability to manage and develop multi-cultural teams, with various specialization levels (operators, technicians, engineers and managers)
• Ability to build and motivate a team in order to achieve common objectives
• Good communication and negotiation skills, useful to find constructive and fair solutions for all stakeholders

Business Management
• Ability to setup and follow a budget of one or several departments (Opex and Capex)
• Strong organization skills allowing optimum adjustment of resources based on business needs

Project Management
• Ability to lead complex international projects, as well as micro-projects (Kaizen like)
• Cross-functional team management
• Strong knowledge of project management tools and methods

Process Improvement
• Ability to identify process improvement opportunities, and to implement them in any kind of business (production, QA, HR, …)
• Experienced in DMAIC project management methodology
• Strong Six Sigma knowledge

Medical Field / Regulations
• Very good knowledge of medical area and its associated ISO norms (ISO 13485, 9001 and 14001)
• Experienced in management of external audit (FDA, CE marking) as point of contact for Operations

ERP
• Experienced in ERP setup (Raw Materials and BOM)
• Knowledge of SAP, JD Edwards and InfoFlo ERP systems

Mes compétences :
Project management
Lean manufacturing
Biotechnologies
Six Sigma Black Belt
Production
Management
Medical devices

Entreprises

  • UCB - Head of Technical Support

    COLOMBES 2013 - maintenant Management of Engineering, Maintenance, Qualification and Metrology activities for the 3 Swiss plants (Chemical, Pharma and Biotech).
  • UCB - Production Supports Manager

    COLOMBES 2011 - 2013 Design and setup of all production support activities for a new Bioplant facility in Bulle (175 million Euros overall budget).
    Management of the department in charge of Medium and Buffer Preparation (> 30 tanks of 15’000m3 each), Dispensing, Material handling (24/24 - 7/7) and Storage activities (>1000 pallet spots in several locations). Setup of the MES/DCS/SAP systems for the area.
  • STAAR Surgical (Nidau - CH) - Operations Manager

    2007 - 2010 Management of Production, Engineering, Development and Maintenance activities of the Nidau facility (7 direct reports, 35 reports in total)
    - Yield increased by 12%, and Volumes increased by 51% on the 2 main products
    - Cycle time reduced by 20% on the most critical product (make to order product)
  • STAAR Surgical (Nidau - CH) - Engineering and Maintenance Manager

    2006 - 2007 Management of validation, process improvement, problem solving and new product introductions activities
    - Lean manufacturing project in one production area leading to reduction from 2 to 1 shift with the same production capacity
    - More than 70 validations (equipments, processes, methods) performed between 2006 and 2010
  • Baxter BioScience (Neuchâtel - CH) - Process Improvement Manager (DMAIC / 6 Sigma)

    2003 - 2006 Management of full time project leaders (Black Belts) and deployment of DMAIC project management methodology on the facility (project selection, training and coaching of project leaders)
    - 50 projects performed in 3 years for more than 1 million USD savings
    - 3 training waves of Green and Black Belts project leaders
  • Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) - Neuchâtel (CH) - Quality Engineering Engineer

    2000 - 2003 In charge of all Quality Operations activities (validation, control, process improvements and problems solving) for one product line (implantable kits for gynaecology surgery) in a start-up environment
    - Creation and deployment of quality procedures and control plans
    - Black Belt (DMAIC / Six Sigma) training
  • Villars Maître Chocolatier (Fribourg - CH) - Process Engineer

    1999 - 2000 Civil military service at Villars Maître Chocolatier (groupe Bongrain), focussed on :

    - Process optimizations within production area
    - Creation of all raw material specifications and testing plans
    - Trouble shooting

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