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Paris, FR

Paris, FR

Paris, FR

Vevey, CH

 Managed team of 3 Industrial Performance Engineers to deliver effective manufacturing standards to support development of factory’s $152 MM annual operating budget with $51 MM in conversion cost Developed factory productivity strategy and managed execution yielding $7.6 MM/year opex savings (15% cost improvement) with 55% reduction of material losses.

Vevey, CH

 Managed cone business unit of 4 supervisors, 7 functional specialists, 184 operators, and 24 mechanicso Decreased safety injuries by 12% and maintained 0 recordable safety incidentso Reduced consumer complaints rate by 20.2% while maintaining food safetyo Improved productivity by 10.1% across 5 lines supporting additional sales in platformo Decreased.

Vevey, CH

 Directed Lean projects in ice cream to identify solution to reduce SKUs by 49%, mixes by 48%, and materials by 50% to drive simplicity throughout our value chain and eliminate $32MM in waste Led 2 white belt DMAIC (Six Sigma) projects and coached 2 more to deliver $1.8MM in savings across 3 factories in 3 different divisions Coached and trained >240.

Vevey, CH

 Supervised team of 31 processing operators, 18 packaging operators, and 2 team leaders Guided production team through implementation of the foundations of Nestlé Continuous Excellence

Vevey, CH

 Identified $200M of capital equipment and staffing, training, and scheduling requirements for 15 filling operators for launch of new tea product with experience in extraction, spray & freeze drying

Vevey, CH