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State Of São Paulo, Brazil

Santana De Parnaíba, São Paulo, Br

Duluth, Georgia, Us

Site Leader for Business Operations in Santa Rosa Plant. Responsible for a multi brand site in South America which produces harvesting machines for Massey Ferguson, Valtra, Challenger and Fendt brands. Leadership of ~1,000 people (including 14 direct reports). Management of manufacturing, safety, quality, supply chain, manufacturing Engineering, AGCO Production System, F&A, HR, maintenance, and facilities.• Launched a new combine harvesting flagship Fendt IDEAL.• Reduction of 36% of total case incident rate.• Improved 45% related to quality defects per unit.• Increased the capacity installed from 2,5 to 7 machines /day.• Improved gross profit through turnaroud project implementation.• Plant placed among top 3 plants in global People Engagement Survey assessment.• Direct report to VP Global Operations.

Duluth, Georgia, Us

Site Leader for Business Operations in Ibirubá Plant. Responsible for a multi brand site in South America which produces Planters, Fertilizers and Front Loaders for Massey Ferguson, Valtra, and Fendt brands. Leadership of ~400 people. Management of manufacturing, safety, quality, supply chain, manufacturing Engineering, AGCO Production System, F&A, HR, maintenance, and facilities.• Launched a new Momentum planter.• Global Best-in-Class Award for two consecutive years (2017-2018).• Factory expansion including areas of production, shipping, effluent treatment station, gas & wasting, inbound, training center, and employees parking lot.• Direct report to VP Manufacturing Operations South America

Duluth, Georgia, Us

• Managed AGCO Santa Rosa Plant operations which assembles combine, header and tractor components, through cutting, bending, machining, welding, painting, assembling and shipping processes. • Managed all the aspects related to the operation such as delivery performance, product quality, safety, inventory level, costs, manufacturing efficiency and budgeting including capital and expenses.• Direct report to Operations Director.

Duluth, Georgia, Us

Responsible for manufacturing engineering and tooling areas. • Planned, forecasted, and managed new products introduction (NPI) and engineering change orders (ECO).• Responsible for the technical standards procedures, operating work instructions and improvement of manufacturing processes (cutting, bending, machining, welding, painting, and assembly).• Utilized lean manufacturing techniques to develop improvements and cost reductions.Direct report to Operations Director.Direct report to Operations Director.• Developed and lead cross-functional process improvement teams.• Direct report to Operations Director.

Responsible for World Class Manufacturing at CNH Curitiba Plant. • Managed WCM pillars and provides training, assistance and auditing their progress to the Latin America plants. I work with teams at the plants to help improve the following areas of the business: safety, cost deployment, focused improvement, autonomous maintenance, workplace organization, professional maintenance, quality control, logistics, early equipment management, people development and environment.• Curitiba Plant placed among top five CNH plants related to WCM official audits.• Direct report to Industrial Director.

Responsible for World Class Manufacturing at CNH Latin America Region. Part of the Global Team implementing the WCM methodology in 34 plants around the world. • Managed WCM in five Latin America Plants. (Curitiba, Piracicaba, Contagem, Sorocaba and México).• Latin America plants placed among the top ten plants related to WCM official audits.• Direct report to WCM Global Director.

• Responsible for manufacturing optimization system program at CNH Curitiba Plant• Responsible for managing a set of strategic and operational projects throughout the company. Consolidated advanced manufacturing practices and implemented a lean manufacturing environment in five internal plants (Combine, Tractor, Header, Cabin and Transmission).• Direct report to Industrial Manager.

• Engineering changes administration and implementation.• Welding and assembly processes development for new product (CS Cpmbines), including the documentation and area restructuring.• Six sigma project coordination, focused on improvement of quality indicators.• Participation in the development of manufacturing excellence scorecard and strategic business plan.• Direct report to Manufacturing Supervisor.

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