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Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica · On-siteManaging 2 manufacturing plants, Envases Comeca and Technoends (Free Zone) which are the largest food and industrial metal packaging supplier in Central America . Continuos interaction with customers all across America and serving as a supplier of companies within the same mutinational Packaging Group in several countries such as Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Chile, Perú and Argentina. Directing together with the managing team a company with over 500… Show more Costa Rica · On-siteManaging 2 manufacturing plants, Envases Comeca and Technoends (Free Zone) which are the largest food and industrial metal packaging supplier in Central America . Continuos interaction with customers all across America and serving as a supplier of companies within the same mutinational Packaging Group in several countries such as Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Chile, Perú and Argentina. Directing together with the managing team a company with over 500 employees including Commercial (sales and customer service), Engineering, Operations and FinanceImplemented a continuos improvement culture within the company reducing labor costs, quality complains , scrap and improving OTD Sales to more than 28 countries around the world including Brasil, Canada and Europe, Exceeding growth targets in the last 3 years by 20%Decreased the convertion cost by 15% during the last 2 years Obtained ISO 50001 standard ensuring the organization has a healthy energy management system, reducing energy consumption, environmental impact and increasing profitability Maintained BRCGS Certification demonstrating to comply with a BRCGS Global Standard for food packaging besides ISO 9001 and others Show less

Costa Rica

Managed a Fiber Cement Manufacturing Facility selling to more than 10 countries in the Americas including USA Managed together with multi-department team a company with over 200 employees including Engineering, Operations (Production, Maintenance and Quality) and Finance. S&OP was implemented in the organizationImplemented several automation projects including KUKA and FANUC robots, Cost Reduction Projects up to 30% in the cost per ton, Transfering and Designing new production… Show more Managed a Fiber Cement Manufacturing Facility selling to more than 10 countries in the Americas including USA Managed together with multi-department team a company with over 200 employees including Engineering, Operations (Production, Maintenance and Quality) and Finance. S&OP was implemented in the organizationImplemented several automation projects including KUKA and FANUC robots, Cost Reduction Projects up to 30% in the cost per ton, Transfering and Designing new production lines.Maintained strategic certifications such as ISO 14001, 9001 and OHSAS 18001 also obtaining new strategical certifications such as Essential Costa Rica and INTE ISO 14064-1:2006 Carbon Neutral Certification, Green and Biomass Energy Generation Show less

Costa Rica

Managed the Operations of the company including over 150 employes as part of Production, Maintenance and Quality departments.Started up new production lines as part of NPI Projects, cost reduction projects, Lean Manufacturing, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001Obtained ISO 8336 and ASTM 1325 Product Certifications as part of the requirements to enter into the USA market which was a key part of the business strategy

Costa Rica

Directed the Maintenance Department including more than 25 technicians both Electrical and Mechanical including CNC and conventional Machine ShopImplemented OEE measurement within the company Implemented LEAN projects together with the Operations teams focused on TPM and SMED methodologyReduced down time in the production lines up to 25%

Costa Rica

Directed the Production Department including more than 100 Operators and Supervisors Implemented SAP ERP as the production leader and KEY user together with a multi-department implementation teamImplemented TPM Program together with the Maintenance department and INA (Instituto Nacional Aprendizaje in Costa Rica)Lead and Executed LEAN projects and improving KPI´s by more than 25%

Costa Rica

Became part of C&K Electronic Components Processs Engineering Teams reporting directly to Technical Manager and dotline to the Corporate Product Engineer in the USAImplemented together with multi-functional teams important projects such as Scrap reduction and Continuos Improvement Developed Root Cause Problem Solving in the SNAP switch production lineLead technical projects and becoming part of NPI projects together with multi-functional and multi-disciplinary teams

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Financial Management