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Hungary

Călăraşi, Romania

Bra, Piedmont, Italy

Treviso Area, Italy

2018-2020 Southern-Europe Operations Director – Plastic injection moulding Treviso, ITALY90 M kg transformed/year, Operation Cost responsibility >75 M€; reporting to the European COO. Principle Objectives: Transform the Italian plants into std operating facilities: Change family-> managerial organisation. Evaluate and transform the Spanish operations site..

Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Cluj Plant Director - Fully-Automatic Coffee Makers, Hand-blenders and mixers. 5,5M pcs/year, Financial responsibility >250M € - reporting to the European Industrial Director.Principle Objectives: Improve the industrial approach. Implementation of basic lean principles and adapting current production methods to improve all factory KPIs and install a more.

Ancona Area, Italy

Principle Objectives: Unification of two factories (Melano and Albacina) into a single production site. Define the production strategy and technical choices to be able to migrate all of the European hob production to this factory in order to generate 100% of the hobs for EMEA in a single site, including: the identification of all opportune actions to reach.

Lodz District, Radomsko County, Poland

Principle Objectives: Guarantee the attainment of the KPIs aligned with the other factories in the group and to manage the technical, productive and economic performance of the production unit considering the migration of all equipment and volumes from another factory in closure.Key ResultsProduction increase from 600k pcs 2012 to >1000k pcs in.

Lipetsk Region, Russian Federation

Principle Objectives: guarantee the attainment of the KPIs aligned with the other factories in the group and to manage the technical, productive and economic performance of the production unit, through identifying and implementing modifications to the existing processes.Key Results:- Production Increase from 0,35M pcs in 2005 to 1,05M pcs del 2012. Target.

Lipetsk Region, Russian Federation

Principle Objectives: train my teams and prepare them for the up-stream and downstream production start-up and ramp-up of the green field Laundry Project.Key Results- launch of the 40 cm and 33cm washing machine ranges on time.- full equipment start-up: cabinet line; drum line; painting line and 2 assembly lines- reached a machine OEE in line with the.

Ancona Area, Italy

Principle Objectives: identify and implement a single structure that would qualify all suppliers - existing or future - address and resolve all Quality issues from a component-type management instead of each individual factory managing each individual issue.Key Results- in the first year the factories documented a 50% reduction in supplier caused line.

Italy

I was the Quality Manager for the first Industrial System in Indesit: for both the Comunanza Factory and the Teverola Factory.

Ascoli Piceno Area, Italy

The first new product platform for 15 years had to implemented in Comunanza. My role was to support the production and R^D teams to ensure a trouble free introduction.

Ancona Area, Italy

My first role in Indesit Company. As there was the transition from a family managed company to a managerial one, there was the introduction of new young managers to support and continue this new company identity.

Naples Area, Italy

The first industrial role in Italy. The company designed, constructed injection moulding tooling for plastics & aluminium and also produced many components from them mainly for the white goods industry. It was a treasure of industrial know-how.

Materials Science And Technology, Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chairman of the School Society; captain of the men's judo team; treasurer and member of the clay pigeon shooting.

A Levels - Physics; Pure Math + Statistics

Btec In Electrical Engineering