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Weiz, Styria, Austria

- Lead strategic initiatives to advance the organization's vision of equipping the global market with modular portfolio elements, delivering exceptional value to customers.- Manage and improve service portfolio for large and medium power transformers, specializing in oil treatment, maintenance, repairs, renovations and upgrades.- End-to-end commercial responsibility for portfolio cluster maintenance and repair services, defining ideas, strategies and roadmaps to ensure successful market entry.- Identify and lead business opportunities to generate customer value, scalability and profitable growth.- Continuously refined portfolio based on customer needs, driving commercialization and roll-out through innovation processes and R&D project management.- Support the execution of R&D for services, overseeing an R&D database, R&D control and reporting.

Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil

- Boost profitability, responsible for cost reduction targets of ~4.5 MUSD/year, generate value for the customer, generating, managing, and analyzing improvement initiatives, costs, and technical data;- Develop design tools and concepts that reduce design/fabrication/assembly time, increase quality and optimize material usage;- Carry out reverse engineering and benchmarking activities;- Develop detailed business cases and implementation plans to present to cross-functional teams, and ensure proper change management is followed;- Report project progress and capture business impact over the life of the project;- Collaborate with DtV Engineers across the South America Transformer HUB and globally;- Organize and facilitate multifunctional workshops (in person and remotely);- Coordinate activities and support the site in improvement initiatives.

Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil

- Development of new products or improvement of existing products (On-site repair, uprating, failure analysis, etc), coordinating, reviewing and preparing projects, within the established deadlines and costs and ensuring that the company's quality standards are met;- Condition assessment for customer equipment, connecting client's specific demand with company's service portfolio;- Strategic analysis of the whole portfolio of power transformers services;- Technical leadership for Power Products (Transformers, reactors, furnace, mobiles, etc)- Technical support for BID department;- Interface between Engineering x Manufacturing (internal and outsourced) x Quality;- Project, budgets and methodologies planning;- Project resources definition, performance reviews and post-implementation assessments;- R&D and improvements of Vapour Phase in Tank drying process.

Blumenau, Santa Catarina

- Technical leadership of the new line of Medium Power Transformers up to 60 MVA, where, based on lean manufacturing principles, it achieved a reduction of 8% in the total cost of sale;- R&D of new materials and manufacturing concepts for transformers tanks, based on lean manufacturing principles and design for innovation;-R&D of new design concepts;- Creation of technical standards;- Technology transfer to overseas plants.

Blumenau, Santa Catarina

- Conception, control and verification of external mechanical design;- Mechanical efforts calculations;- External design of Mobile transformers;- Active part design of Power transformers;- Quality non-conformities analysis, actions and improvements using PDCA method;- Interface between Engineering x Shop floor.

Guarulhos, São Paulo

- Coordination of 5 people of mechanical design team;- External design team workload and his deliverables;- External design team quality and performance indicators (KPIs);- Quality non-conformities analysis, actions and improvements, using 4Q methodology to reduce external design errors (from 23% to 4%);- 15% increased external design process productivity using Pert/CPM method;- Active contribution in the implementation of ABB BU standards at ABB Brazil Transformers, enabling the use of various items, encouraging the team to use the BU solutions as much as possible and providing constant feedback to the development team in Germany;- New suppliers development to reduce costs;- I designed and coordinated the detailing at the tank shop (outsourced) how a alternative for overload;- Interface between local engineering x global development.

Guarulhos, São Paulo

- Conception, control and verification of external mechanical design;- Preliminary design of tenders;- Local MAX support for users;- Control and verification of manufacturing drawings;- Interface between Engineering x Manufacturing (internal and outsourced) x Quality;- Critical analysis of transformer external design before production is started;- Interface between local engineering x global development;- Technical support for manufacturing and tankshop (local and international);- 3D modeling, mechanical drawings, pick and place, layouts;- 3D mechanical design automation and standardization, working together of global development team;- 3D library creation and management;

Guarulhos

Electrical - Electronics equipments and machines repairs.

Business Strategy, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Project Management

MBA Project Management

Business And Innovation Management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Engineering/Industrial Management

Electrical Technician, Electrical, Electronic And Communications Engineering Technology/Technician