Lead the Commodity Buyers, Product Lunch Buyer, Supplier Development Engineers, Supplier Quality Assurance and Incoming Inspection teams.

Program Manager of the Glow Plug Control Modules (GPCM) and working with customers from USA, Germany, France, Sweden, India, China and South Korea.Leading the program team to deliver timing/cost/quality/product performance objectives.Establishing and building effective customer interfaces.Controlling, tracking and reporting program status throughout the program life. Defining workload and resource requirements in conjunction with functional departmental manager to deliver the program.Lead Cross Functional Team.Ensuring all relevant procedures are followed when delivering the program.

GE Power Controls Portugal- Management of the maintenance team.- Management of the facilities, machines (plastic injections and compression machines, mechanical presses, welding machines, test lines, etc.).- Management of the injection plastic tools and equipment selection, execution and test.- Lean team management.- Lean tools management (VSM, kaizen, SMED, 5S, cell lines, one piece flow, ideas program, etc.).- Lean projects management.- Production team management.- Work conditions and ergonomic projects management.- FEUP and Minho University masters co-advisor in LEAN areas.

CACIA manufacturing plantGearbox – Pinions, Wheel, Shafts and Selector Fork- Unit management and key performance indicators follow up (cost, time, quality and human resources)- Management of the manufacturing machines selections, executions and installation.- Accomplish the main objectives in terms of costs, time, quality and performance.- Project quality tools (process capability study, process validation plan, Matrix QA, AMDEC flux) and project TPM accomplishment.- Product project team cooperation, participation in the manufacturing process validation, project main risks identification. Validation tests execution. Prototypes manufacturing.- Manufacturing department assistance accomplishment and manager the process and product improvements.- Installed manufacturing machines performance follow up.

CACIA manufacturing plant Balancer shaft, Flywheel and Exhaust Manifold cape - Unit management and key performance indicators follow up (cost, time, quality and human resources) - Management of the manufacturing machines selections, executions and installation. - Accomplish the main objectives in terms of costs, time, quality and performance. - Project quality tools (process capability study, process validation plan, Matrix QA, AMDEC flux) and project TPM accomplishment. - Product project team cooperation, participation in the manufacturing process validation, project main risks identification. Validation tests execution. Prototypes manufacturing. - Manufacturing department assistance accomplishment and manager the process and product improvements. - Installed manufacturing machines performance follow up.

CACIA manufacturing plantBalancer shaft projects (pinions and crankshaft wheel) and flywheel projects- Management of the manufacturing machines selections, executions and installation. Machine suppliers’ technical negotiations. Technical-economics choice validations.- Accomplish the main objectives in terms of costs, time, quality and performance. PDCA, ANPQP, QC Story and 5 whys tools exploitation.- Project quality tools (process capability study, process validation plan, Matrix QA, AMDEC flux) and project TPM accomplishment.- Product project team cooperation, participation in the manufacturing process validation, project main risks identification. Validation tests execution. Prototypes manufacturing.- Manufacturing department assistance accomplishment and manager the process and product improvements.- Installed manufacturing machines performance follow up.

CACIA manufacturing plantBalancer shaft and flywheel-Machining process and process tolerance definition.-Working in cooperation with the product design team (Rueil technical plant) and with the crankshaft process engineering team (Renault Cléon manufacturing plant), in the product and process definition.-Prototypes and preliminary series manufacturing. Benchmarketing.-Machines devices and new machines definition and technical negotiations. Machines and machines devices receptions.-Gears manufacturing process studies, tests and definition. Manufacturing process improvements.-Control plan, product/process validation plans, product/process and quality assurance dossiers. Quality tools (capabilities, process validation plan, Matrix QA, AMDEC flux, QC Story, ANPQP). Maintenance tools (TPM in project) and manufacturing improvements tool (RUN’s).-University training orientation (FEUP) in the balancer shaft test machine, “Estudo e exploração do banco de ensaios das árvores de equilibragem do motor M1D”.

CIFIAL, Cifial SI | Serviços de Consultoria e Informação, LdaProcess engineering, forging area- Forging process improvements. Equipments selection and project. New project support. Forging dies analyses.

INEGI | Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão IndustrialCETRIB | Unidade de Tribologia e Manutenção Industrial- Researched in a R&D European project, named | Reduction of Fluid Lubricant Use in Heavy Loaded Motion Transmission System through the Application of Self-Lubricant Coatings.