Andrzej Potocki Email & Phone Number

Easton, Pa, Us

✴️ FOCUS: Driving operational excellence, technological advancement, and enhancing collaborative synergy while elevating workforce engagement at Victaulic’s strategically vital Polish manufacturing facility. Committed to improving productivity, quality, and cost-effectiveness while prioritizing employee safety and satisfaction in a 700-employee operation.✴️ ROLE: P&L responsibility with broad company management scope covering manufacturing, engineering, R&D, quality control, safety, finance, HR, procurement, maintenance, new product introduction, lean manufacturing, sales, customer service, warehouse, and IT.✴️ KEY INITIATIVES: ► Steering CAPEX projects to enhance manufacturing capabilities, drive innovation, and ensure long-term competitiveness. Prioritizing automation to improve quality and efficiency while redirecting talent to more engaging, value-added activities. ► Enhancing Lean Manufacturing program to drive continuous improvement, optimize plant layout and setup efficiencies, streamline material flow, and reduce inventories. ► Upholding safety standards while continuously advancing protocols and cultivating vigilance and best practices.► Championing Industry 4.0 technologies to digitalize processes, establish real-time KPIs, and enable data-driven decision making. ► Accelerating new product development and introduction processes to gain strategic advantage and meet evolving customer needs. ► Fostering a collaborative culture by emphasizing teamwork, open communication, and cross-functional cooperation. ► Forging robust partnerships with labor unions to ensure productive negotiations, mutual understanding, and aligned objectives. ✴️ EXPERTISE LEVERAGED:Operational Excellence / Lean Manufacturing / Automation & Industry 4.0 / CAPEX Strategy / New Product Development / Labor Relations / Safety Culture / Innovation Management / Organizational Development / Cross-Functional Team Leadership / Performance Optimization / Continuous Improvement

Milan, It

✴️ IMPACT: Created a global manufacturing capability to protect against market volatility, maximize business performance, and optimize the supply chain. Reimagined and reengineered production and supply capabilities across Poland, India, and China. ✴️ ROLE: Tapped to leverage General Manager-level insights in newly created, globally strategic role with a focus on technology, automation, production, and CAPEX across China, India, and Poland. Promoted in 2023 from Global Engineering Manager to Global Manufacturing Director role with responsibility over three plants, overseeing 4K staff across full gamut of global manufacturing operations, including HR, Quality, Procurement, Engineering, R&D, and Logistics functions. ✴️ INITIATIVES: ► Launched Indian manufacturing capabilities to shift Polish production. Comprehensive buildout included acquiring facilities and equipment, forming supplier base, building/training team, and instituting continuous improvement capabilities. ► Shifted Chinese manufacturing to Poland to drive strategic savings. Orchestrated plan from idea to 1st delivery, including CAPEX planning, equipment acquisition and commissioning, team training, quality control implementation, and supply chain overhaul. ► Maximized product availability by leveraging Chinese supplier base, initiated supply, and ensured quality standards. ► Architected and implemented company’s first-ever comprehensive global manufacturing strategy, optimizing production allocation across Poland, China, and India. Leveraged each location’s unique advantages to enhance companywide efficiency and competitiveness. ✴️ EXPERTISE LEVERAGED:Global Manufacturing / Change Management / Customer Satisfaction / Negotiation / Global Systems Engineering / Supplier Development / Quality Assurance / Operational Excellence / Organizational Redesign / Lean Manufacturing

Derrimut, Victoria, Au

✴️ IMPACT: Maximized performance, with dramatic impact on EBITDA, sales, manufacturing efficiency, manufacturing output, and on-time delivery. Created high-performing, innovative, and efficient supply chain and turning RYCO Hydraulics China into a meaningful competitor in price-sensitive markets. Enabled company to achieve financial objectives through COVID-19 crisis. ✴️ ROLE: P&L responsibility with broad company management mandate leading 300 staff across R&D, Engineering, Quality Control, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Supplier Management, and Sales & Marketing. ✴️ INITIATIVES: ► Automated core manufacturing processes including rolling, tapping, chuckers, and fittings assembly. ► Championed culture of continuous improvement, quality standards (QC), and cost-efficiency by rebuilding operations teams.► Increased domestic sales by redesigning supply chain with JIT capabilities, resulting in increased customer satisfaction. Refocused supply chain and quality teams on key OEM customers’ needs. Increased manufacturing capacity through new equipment. ► Led series of Lean initiatives including consumables cost reduction projects, unit cost reduction via insourcing, and cycle time reduction via product redesign. ► Led Lean trainings at white- and blue-collar level and established continuous improvement team to redesign layout, improve material flow, and increase efficiency. ► Tightened warehouse, logistics, and supply chain operations and processes with impact on cost savings and DIFOT (delivery in full on time). Diversified supplier base and renegotiated contracts with logistics providers. Protected quality, innovation, and engagement while rightsizing the organization. ► Ensured continued safety for all workers, overhauling EHS procedures to pass ISO 45001: 2018 audit. ✴️ EXPERTISE LEVERAGED:Production Automation / Team Building & Cultural Transformation / Sales Growth / Lean Manufacturing / Organizational Development / Cost Control / EHS Strategies

Derrimut, Victoria, Au

✴️ IMPACT: Led group’s single-most strategic growth-driving project―a redesign of manufacturing methods and products to reduce costs. Future-proofed company and sharpened competitive edge. Exceeded cost reduction targets by reducing product variations. ✴️ ROLE: In charge of leading highly innovative Research & Development program spanning process redesign, raw materials development, product development/validation, supplier validation.✴️ INITIATIVES: ► Launched highly efficient R&D capabilities, leading recruitment/training of high-performance engineering team to execute product redesign rapidly and cost-effectively. ► Overhauled manufacturing processes to support more cost-effective raw materials and coordinated intense engineering validation to ensure quality.► Orchestrated transition from testing to mass production and ERP integration to guarantee seamless supply chain. ► Developed robust equipment, tooling, and raw material supplier base and collaborated to redesign equipment and processes, leveraging their innovation power.✴️ EXPERTISE LEVERAGED:Team Building & Training / Continuous Improvement & Quality Control / Business Process Improvement / Supplier Innovation

Derrimut, Victoria, Au

✴️ IMPACT: Transformed APAC factory unable to meet demand into dependable supplier and delivered massive savings through full transfer of production and logistics from Australia to China. Untapped new revenue potential by passing OEM customer audits. Unlocked lucrative new local market business. ✴️ ROLE: Played key role in restructuring Chinese manufacturing plant. Responsible for analyzing workflow, identifying non-value added activities, and removing waste.✴️ INITIATIVES: ► Process Improvement: Orchestrated sweeping changes to value stream to improve quality control and material flow, decrease work in progress (WIP), reduce machine setup times, improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and integrate core business processes through sophisticated ERP.

Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Pl

✴️ OVERVIEW: Led Lean manufacturing training and orchestrated companywide Kaizen events spanning key production areas and then coordinated monitoring and follow-up for sustained results. Instrumental in modernizing and introducing Lean principles into an inefficient manufacturing operation. Achieved dramatic improvements across machine setup time, scrap reduction, OEE, and WIP (Work in Progress).

Us

✴️ OVERVIEW: Gained management experience while supporting transfer of manufacturing operations from UK to Poland. Implemented visual management, 5S, SMED, and layout redesign.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Mechanical Engineering