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Brazil

• Responsible for overseeing the company's engineering, maintenance, and utilities operations, ensuring optimal performance, safety, and compliance to support the double-digit company growth journey. • Manage the PROJECT PORTIFOLIO (CAPEX) and the strategic long-term planning for engineering projects through development and implementation of a comprehensive Master Plan for the factories and Printing Operation.• Oversee the execution of the maintenance strategy, applying World-Class Maintenance (WCM) principles to ensure equipment reliability, operational continuity, and reduction of unplanned downtime to enable OEE leverage.• Develop and manage predictive and preventive maintenance programs to improve operational efficiency and extend the life cycle of equipment, including the integration of automation and digital tools for monitoring and diagnostics.• Ensure the continuous availability and reliability of essential utilities, including electricity, Air Handling Units (AHU), compressed air, steam, and pure water (PW), to support manufacturing processes, while aligning with production requirements and promoting energy efficiency and sustainability objectives

Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Led the sustainability transformation agenda in Latam South (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Peru and Paraguay), engaging the cross functional areas of the business and promoting an adequate communication process across regional teams.• Responsible to ensure the Sustainability Reports accuracy, defining the glide paths, main initiatives, and projects to deliver the regional commitments aligned with Global agenda, engaging Latam South Top Team and global roles to have the necessary support.• Prepared and certified 4 operations in Brazil, Chile and Argentina in: Carbon Neutrality (PAS 2060) and Water Resources Management (AWS Core), with the Brazilian operation being the pioneer in the BAT Group in both certifications. • Leader of the Sustainability committee for Latam South, reporting directly to the regional board, reaching historic levels in water recycling, waste recycling, waste generation, as well as carbon emissions reduction.• Responsible for ensuring full HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) compliance of the businesses throughout the Latam South region, covering more than 5000 employees. • Stablished a turnaround in Safety for incident reduction (Safety Always First Culture), throughout the implementation of a complete safety process review, stablishing the safety role model for the leadership teams, introducing the digital agenda and training cycle plan for Safety. The Region reached the lowest historical level of accidents in 2022.• Responsible for FM (Facilities Management) for properties and corporate Service Contracts in Brazil, including Business Travel supplier and Building assets management.

Uberlândia E Região, Brasil

• Led the manufacturing area of BAT Brazil, currently one of the largest operations of the BAT group, more than 800 employees in manufacturing, working 24X7, covering local market volumes and exports.• In charge of production cells, production engineering, plant maintenance, scheduling, spare parts warehouse, information systems and OPEX, having 8 direct managers.• Promoted the appropriate skills of leadership and operational teams to maintain a diverse and inclusive workplace.• Implemented the ZERO-BASE model for optimizing structures, defining the necessary skill matrix, training model and career path for operational and professional levels.• Responsible to ensure that all processes are following safety requirements, maintaining a high safety culture at Zero Accidents.• Ensures all the quality requirements are restricted followed, decreasing market returns and write offs.• Union engagement and negociation.• Responsible for delivering the committed OEE , setting medium- and long-term goals to increase manufacturing efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, optimizing the Opex needs.• Responsible to delivery volumes forecasted in SOP, proposing projects for growing volumes, profit protection and efficiency increase.• Improved the Autonomous Maintenance (MTBF) and Proactive Maintenance Pillars (Unplaned stops and cost management). Regional co-leader of the Autonomous Maintenance Pillar. • BAT Brazil was awarded as the best plant in the BAT group in 2020 for efficiency gains, cost mitigation and high level of product quality, in response to pandemic contingencies.

Uberlândia Area, Brazil

• Responsible for Engineering and Site Services.• Coordinate, implement and review the Site Master Plan (5-year plan).• Management of the Capex cycle, prioritizing the projects according to the available budget versus business demands.• Prepare the business case for new technologies, upgrades and updates.• Support new developments, based on business demands (cost reduction, regulation and new features).• Guarantee the right project communication in every level, inside and outside the factory.• Introduce best practices in project management according to the PMBOK.• Management of the road map in water and energy reduction.• Guarantee the right service level in utilities and facilities, in order to avoid impacts on production scheduling and quality.• Introduce a proactive agenda with the main stakeholders (EHS, Production, Procurement, NPI, Finance, Quality and OEMs).• Leadership development (managers and coordinators).

• Responsible for maintenance, warehouse and continuous improvement.• Guarantee the defect handling and planned maintenance DMS are working. according to the IWS methodology in SMD and PMD.• Prepare the road map and implement the action plan to achieve the OEE, Quality and Waste Reduction indexes. • Prepare the OPEX reviews according to the goals.• Guarantee the right maintenance balance (predictive, preventive and corrective).• Reduce the unplanned stops and increase the MTBF.• Coordinates the Americas Spare Parts Community, to reduces the warehouse stocks across the Region.• Prepare and coordinate the Plant Maintenance Team for the One SAP migration.• Leadership development (coordinators).

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• Responsible for Production and Maintenance areas in the Souza Cruz Printing Department ( Amcor – since 2015).• Guarantee the OTIF production orders.• Prepare the annual OPEX.• Support the customers in new developments or production issues.• Implement new projects and initiatives to improve productivity, quality and cost reduction.• Define and support the Six Sigma projects implementation.• Manage the continuous improvement team initiatives.• Guarantee the right communication internally and externally.• Responsible for the assets management.• Introduce the RCM as the basis for the maintenance plans preparation.• Leadership development (managers and coordinators).

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Executive Mba, Business/Commerce, General

Mba, Project Management

Especialização, Gestão Estratégica Em Marketing

Engenheiro Eletricista

High School, Técnico Eletromecanica