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Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

- Support the avionics equipment manufacturing process development and qualification.- Support the supplier prospection and selection process.- Provide project visibility based on data analysis.- Drive the product compliance process by the customer.- System requirements development and management.- Understand and identify the customer's needs and define system requirements and functions.- Support the process of capturing, writing and managing the requirements.- Guide the design and system architecture definition.- Project requirements gaps analysis.- Support the design review process.- Support change management process.- Support program management (schedule and plan).- Support incremental deliveries, development process management and testing/acceptance process.

São José Dos Campos Area, Brazil

- Project Industrialization Management: Drive with all stakeholders the Industrialization Plan for the Tactical Cruise Missile System (AV-MTC) Program.- Co-operates with all stakeholders to define the industrialization strategy, vision, business value/business case, scope, cost, deadline, objectives, requirements, CAPEX and deliverables for the project within the framework decide by the Industrial Director.- Lead the prototypes production master planning for the homologation process.- Manage the prototypes and product costs.- Manage the production order, resources and budget for prototypes, tools, jigs, gauges and equipment’s.- Provide direction and support to industrial technical team.- Provide synergy within a cross-functional department to achieve the project goals.- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and share them to program manager and leads.- Support change management process activities, communication, problem report, study phase, organizational changes, requirements integrity and deployment actions.- Support non-conformance process analysis with the cross-functional team.- Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project goals.- Address the project barriers through problem solving and coordination with stakeholders.- Manage prioritization and trade-offs to ensure the project direction at the right time.- Mentor and share best practices with other teams.- Support the project manager to identify, articulate and drive the critical path.- Provide schedule and status reports to project manager.- Support quality assurance and management.- Support product configuration control and configuration accounting process.- Support supplier qualification process.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

- Project Industrialization Management: Drive with all stakeholders the Industrialization Plan for the A-Darter Air-to-Air Program.- Co-operates with all stakeholders to define the industrialization strategy, scope, cost, deadline, objectives, requirements, CAPEX and deliverables for the project within the framework decide by the Contract Director and Program Manager (SOW, schedule, risk analysis and management report).- Drive technical team to achieve the stakeholder’s requirements and the project goals based on technology transfer.- Data pack transfer management from South African Design Authority.- Product baseline development and management.- Support supplier management: procurement, development, qualification, audit process, risk analysis, KPIs, failure reports, OTD, drive supplier performance improvement and purchase specification development.- Global supplier strategy definition.- Customer, partner and supplier interaction.- Assists the Project Manager with the project execution such as preparations for staff meetings, executive visits, offsite presentations and special events.- Collaborate in project troubleshooting, leading quality project troubleshooting; including components manufacturing.- Collaborate in project configuration control and support Engineering Change Management.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

- Department management.- Establishing and maintaining an annual operational budget.- Monitoring metrics to provide procedure process improvements.- Drive technical team to achieve the stakeholder’s requirements and company strategies.- Assist the Development Engineering for troubleshooting and investigative process.- Test fire management; test setup development; test laboratory infrastructure adequacy per customer specification.- Test sales and Stakeholder interaction.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

- Department management.- Supplier development: NDA, procurement, development and qualification.- Supplier management: audit process, risk analysis, KPIs, failure reports, OTD, drive supplier performance improvement, purchase specification development and Contract/MOU management support.- Global purchasing strategy definition support.- Supplier Quality Assurance.- Lead supplier qualifications, action plans, audits, performance monitoring, and assisting key suppliers towards industrial standards of excellence.- Track metrics and works quality improvement plans to address problem areas.- Review and approve quality plans, investigate quality escapes to provide root cause analysis and ensure effective corrective actions are taken.- Mentor suppliers in the application of quality tools & requirements.- Ensure compliance, and drive improvement plans where needed.- Review documentation and witness supplier practices to determine if sound manufacturing and inspection principles are in place.- Reviewing supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems.- Improving quality performance of suppliers by conducting onsite workshops at supplier locations, providing technical assistance in developing a robust quality system, or other technical support as required.- Providing technical assistance during supplier launch, change-over and ongoing production activities.- Performing on-site supplier visits for root cause analysis and verification of correction actions of supplier quality issues- Reviewing supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems.- Support the change management approval process for changes to product specification, manufacturing processes, or/and locations related to the supplier.- Challenge suppliers to continuously improve to meet targets.- Procedure standardization (ABNT NBR ISO 9001:2008, ABNT NBR 15100:2010, AQAP-2110 and AS9100:2009).

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

- Translate design-engineering requirements into manufacturing process working with the project team.- Support business case development.- Production technical support.- Design for manufacturing analysis, alternative material analysis, problem and deviation analysis support.- Support change management process.- Define manufacturing process for prototypes.- Support for product and manufacturing baseline development. - Product configuration management.- Critical supplier development.

Centurion, Pretoria, South Africa

- Mectron representative in the technology transfer program between South Africa and Brazil for the A-Darter Program, a fifth generation short range air-to-air missile.- Assembly and mechanical Integration. - Airframe qualification (structural, vibration and environmental tests).- Comprehensive understanding of Denel configuration and documentation control system (SAP/PTC Windchill) in order to assure knowledge and data pack transfer to Mectron.- Advising on data pack transfer process, with Product Engineering, Process Engineering and Customer at Brazilian office.- Elaboration of follow up reports to the Brazilian Air Force.- Support root cause analysis of failures or potential failures.- Support configuration management and quality assurance coordinator.- Support change management process.- Support preparation to flight test campaigns as a member of Denel technical team.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

- Quality assurance coordinator of several Defense Programs.- Quality management: KPIs, lead quality investigations, support continuous improvement, support for material incoming inspection.- Support for equipment calibration process.- Conduct customer complaints answer process.- Lead root cause analysis of failures or potential failures. Control and monitor corrective and preventive actions.- Advising on the development of products, with Product Engineering and Process Engineering.- Coordinate product approvals for customers with the Quality team.- Conduct FMEA and PFMEA process.- Support internal audits to support site quality compliance and regulatory requirements.- Support change management process.- Support configuration management process.

Jambeiro, São Paulo, Brazil

- Drive technical team to perform the product qualification/validation process (harness, connectors, electrical terminals, switches and central distribution units).- CAPEX, budget, forecast, training and people strategy definition.- Product development engineering support for application and development of new parts.- Customer, suppliers and partners interface.- Mapping gaps to adequate the laboratory infrastructure according the customer specification.- Purchase specification development for equipment, devices, services and materials.- Quality and process engineering support.- Conduct test sales.

Jambeiro, São Paulo, Brazil

- Conduct product test qualification/validation process (harness, connectors, electrical terminals, switches and central distribution units) according to customer requirements.- Conduct mechanical, electrical, environmental and vibration test.- Conduct inspection incoming material test and production test control.- Process capability analysis.- Customer support for troubleshooting.

Jambeiro, São Paulo, Brazil

- PPAP compilation for the approval process.- Product dimensional analysis.- Process capability analysis; Perform data collection of characteristics monitored through Statistical Process Control (CEP) and act preventively on identified deviations.- Conduct management systems analysis (MSA).- Customer support for troubleshooting.- Support for equipment calibration process.- Production control plans development.- Support in the execution and maintenance of DFMEA and PFMEA.- Root cause analysis and preventive/corrective actions analysis.- Manufacturing support for problems solution and quality improvement.- Material and components incoming inspection.- Develop, generate and analyze quality indicators.- Support the interface areas in improvement action plans.- Support quality and continuous improvement projects.- Support Quality Engineers to carry out process qualification activities.- Support management in defining and implementing quality plans, senior quality reduction escapes and non-quality costs.- Identify and manage risks to product quality.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Project Management

Graduation, Industrial Mechanical Engineering

Electronic Technician