Qualifications: * Results oriented with successful experiences in restructuring different units and business divisions, focusing on recuperation of their EBITDA. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Fluency in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. * Knowledge in running a business acquired through study and much practice in different countries. * Planned and organized. * Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills. * Awareness, gained through experience, of the importance of clearly defining delegated responsibilities and time schedules, and of regularly ensuring that they are properly understood and executed within the schedules.
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Director Of OperationsLabsurface Jul 2022 - PresentTerrebonne, Quebec, CanadaMain Responsibilities:* Overseeing the operations departments of the company, including Manufacturing, Purchasing, Planning, Logistics, Quality, and Customer Service. Establishing and leading a management team to build a robust and efficient operations department.*Managing the department's annual budget.*Maintaining direct contact with key suppliers and developing new supplier relationships based on R&D requirements. Attend trade shows to explore new opportunities and industry trends.*Managing industrial projects for acquiring new equipment, including conducting pay-back analysis. Upon approval, leading technical clarifications, defining scopes, negotiating, and overseeing the purchasing process.*Closely monitoring the progress of new product launch projects, including assessing inventory impact and defining production processes.*Implementing and overseeing inventory management strategies.*Developing, implementing, and monitoring quality policies and a Quality department.*Establishing and monitoring Operations KPIs to strategically achieve predefined goals.*Managing personnel, including overseeing hiring processes, setting team goals, and conducting performance evaluations.*Reporting directly to the company's president. -
Operations ManagerNice Group Jan 2022 - Jul 2022Montreal, Quebec, CanadaMain Responsibilities:* Management of operation sectors of Quebec facility: manufacturing, supply chain, maintenance, planning;* Administrating the units' annual budget;* 100% responsible to enhance the sales budget monthly;* Production and material planning;* Inventory management;* Responsible for the personnel management: hiring processes and team performance evaluations;* Holding weekly operations meeting with North America CEO;* Monitoring daily KPIs + strategically acting to reach pre-defined capacity and efficiency targets;* Reporting directly to the North America CEO.Main Achievements:* Productivity and efficiency KPI implementation. -
Operations ManagerFlex-Pression Ltée Oct 2018 - Jan 2022Montreal, Quebec, CanadaMain Responsibilities:* Entire management of all operation sectors : manufacturing, supply chain, maintenance, engineering and QA;* Administrating the units' annual budget;* 100% responsible to enhance the sales budget monthly;* Production and material planning;* Purchasing and planning the A materials on the ABC curve;* Inventory management;* Responsible for the personnel management: hiring processes and team performance evaluations;* Holding daily production meeting with sector leaders + weekly operation meetings with sales directors, controller and the company’s president;* Responsible for the new larger projects, such as new machines acquisition (capex), development of new important suppliers, etc;* Reporting directly to the company s president.Main Achievements:* Development of the new suppliers for the two most important raw materials of Flex-Pression operation. Generating expressive savings. The change did not generate any quality issue; actually in one of the cases the scrap results decreased. -
Production ManagerFlex-Pression Ltée Nov 2017 - Oct 2018Montreal, Quebec, CanadaMain Responsibilities:* Entire management of production, supply chain and maintenance areas.* Administrating the department’s annual budget.* Production planning.* Material planning.* Responsible for personnel management: hiring processes and team performance evaluations.* Holding daily production meeting with production and supply chain leaders + weekly production meetings with sales director and the company s President.* Reporting to the company’s president.Main Achievements:* Increase in over 30% daily capacity based on a new planning procedure implemented -
Marine And Cleanroom Division Manager And North American Strategic ManagerDanica Corporation A/S Aug 2013 - May 2016São Paulo Area, BrazilMain Responsibilities: * Entire management, for all of Brazil, of the technical (design / assembly) and the commercial (sales), for the Marine and Cleanroom divisions. Strategical responsible for the North American manufacturing unit. * 100% responsible for profitability of the Marine and Cleanroom divisions, and of the manufacturing unit. * Reporting directly to the managing director and to the CEO. Main Achievements: * EBITDA of Cleanroom division from 2.2% (2013) up to 20.8%(2014). * EBITDA of Marine division from -8.6% (2013) up to +3.56%(2014). -
General Manager North AmericaDanica Corporation A/S Mar 2010 - Aug 2013Toluca Area, MexicoMain Responsibilities: * Entire management of all sectors: industrial (manufacturing, supply chain, maintenance), administrative (financial, accounting, human resources), technical (designing, assembly) and commercial (sales Mexico, sales USA, marketing). * 100% responsible to enhance profitability. * Reporting directly to the CEO for North America. Main Achievements: * EBITDA of the North American unit from -13.4% (2009) up to +11.1%(2013). * Net Revenues increased in 75.3% from 2009 to 2013. -
Assembly And Designing Coordinator North AmericaDanica Corporation A/S May 2009 - Mar 2010Toluca Area, MexicoMain Responsibilities: * Coordinating teams of planners, designers and field supervisors. * Purchasing / hiring contractors to install Danica materials. * Administrating the department's annual budget. * Ensuring quality of the Danica materials installed and that the ISO 9001:2008 system procedures were meticulously respected. Main Achievements: * Finding, training and motivating new North American and Mexican contractors. * Increased control over productivity, which led to an impressive increase in profitability. -
Assembly Coordinator Cleanroom DivisionDanica Corporation Brazil May 2008 - May 2009Sao Paulo - Sp - BrazilMain Responsibilities: * Coordinating teams of planners and field supervisors. * Purchasing / hiring contractors to install Danica materials. * Administrating the department's annual budget. * Ensuring quality of the Danica materials installed. Main Achievements: * Finding, training and motivating new Brazilian contractors. -
Head Engineer Of Cleanroom DivisionDanica Corporation Brazil Sep 2005 - May 2008Joinville Area, BrazilMain Responsibilities: * Coordinating designing team. * Checking and correcting every plan designed by the team. * Administrating the department's annual budget. Main Achievements: * Development of a standard Cleanroom details' layout and their input in the company's ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. -
Cold Storage And Cleanroom Division DesignerDanica Corporation Brazil May 2004 - Sep 2005Sao Paulo - BrazilMain Responsibilities: * Adapting costumers layout with Danica materials. * Specifying and setting production orders for the industrial department, and ensuring 100% of customers' requests were properly executed, in a timely manner, during manufacturing process. * Setting production stages in the ERP system, according to the installation schedule and regulating the exact quantity of materials required to meet the needs of the teams working on the assembly lines.
Joao Forini Education Details
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Project Management (Based On Pmbok) -
Civil Engeneering
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Joao Forini attended Fundação Getulio Vargas, Universidade De São Paulo.
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