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Leiria, Pt

Leiria, Pt

Portugal, Netherlands

- Conducted multiple companies’ performance diagnoses with senior leadership teams, by streamlining key processes and creating business cases to support return on investment.- Built several medium-scale lean transformation programs for companies across all sectors with a double-digit impact on companies’ results.- Managed a portfolio of key clients (approximately 1M€ in revenue) while establishing strong relationships with C-level executives to ensure customer satisfaction and business success.- Led a team of 12 engineers to ensure successful implementation of operational excellence projects, providing technical guidance and supporting team members through strategic decision-making.- Responsible for training, mentoring, and evaluating 7 team members to support career development.

Portugal, Egypt

- Managed the implementation of several operational excellence projects at the same time (Automotive, Oil & Gas, Metalworking) by monitoring project progress and benefits tracking.- Led an international team of 8 consultants in a large-scale business transformation program covering 3500 employees within 1,5 years, focused on driving a continuous improvement culture and implementing process improvement breakthroughs.- Conducted monthly routines with senior Leadership teams to deploy strategic key programs and to achieve X-Matrix long-term goals.- Established consistent communication with all stakeholders to ensure project alignment with their objectives, by implementing weekly Mission Control meetings and monthly Steering Committee sessions.- Coordinated multiple projects plans by tracking deliverables and managing dependencies, while supervising various teams of 2-3 consultants and leading cross-functional teams at the clients.

Portugal, Spain

Metalworking- Designed the production layout for a new factory (40 000m^2) with 80 operators optimizing all material flows.- Conducted time studies and standardized production tasks to create one-piece flow assembly lines, increasing productivity by 48% after 6 months.Oil & Gas- Designed the information flow methodology for the maintenance dept. (ticket system, capacity planning tool) decreasing the order backlog by 36%.- Created an equipment’s criticality index algorithm and developed autonomous maintenance routes and preventive maintenance plans, which decreased availability losses from 28% to 21%.Food & Beverage- Executed kaizen workshops on the shop floor with line supervisors and teams, focusing on structured problem-solving and advanced root-cause analysis which increased global OEE in 8 pp.- Drove a cultural change program for 6 months by training more than 200 employees and guided the implementation of CI tools: 5S, PDCA, standard work, visual management, KPIs, daily meetings.Automotive- Implemented a standardized replenishment logistics process to reduce operators’ handling and production stoppages, and applied SMED to reduce changeover time in stamping presses which increased productivity by 13%.Textile- Developed a load-capacity tool that automatically sets the delivery date according to the list of ongoing orders and the production capacity, which made it possible to increase on-time delivery from 81% to 88%.- Created visual management planning tools to synchronize production between operation steps reducing production lead time.Sales- Collaborated with 16 Sales team members on the development of sales standards and scripts for sales call meetings and introduced a data-driven strategy increasing sales revenue in 22% after 11 months.- Designed a scheduling algorithm for sales calls and centralized all the sales-support activities, which increased the % of outbound time per seller from 15% to 27%.

Master And Bachelor Degree In Industrial Engineering And Management, 15.3 Out Of 20

Certificado De Competências Pedagógicas, 4 Out Of 5