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Project Manager / Mechanical Engineer Manager

Location:
Foshan, Guangdong, China
Posted:
October 23, 2014

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Damien SAISON

International Engineering / Manufacturing / Project Management

Mechanical Engineer with direct experience leading teams, developing products, people skills and processes around

Engineering, Manufacturing Operations and Project Management. 12 years of experience including 9 years overseas

(Asia & Emirates), 6 years on managerial level and 8 years of Project Management expertise. My objective is to

contribute to the development of technical/manufacturing structure abroad and to progress in management.

Areas of Expertise

Engineering Management Manufacturing Operations Earned Value Management

R&D Management Project Management (PMF) Quality Assurance & Production

Technology Transfer Management Supplier Quality Management Lean & 6 Sigma Approach (GB)

Professional Work Experience

Operations Management (Manufacturing) 2012.07 – present

Andritz China (HQ Austria) – 1500 persons - 63.000 sqm workshops Foshan

Products: hydro, pulp & paper, metals, separation technologies, feed & bio-fuel machines

(Operations) Head of Design & Manufacturing Engineering (new position) – 2014.02 to now

Management & development of a combined forces department to support all local manufacturing Operations.

Same scope (as below) for Design Engineering Group + reinforce Manufacturing Engineering Group (manufacturing quotations,

routings, raw material design, engineering interfaces with all workshops, operations troubleshooting) + setup of a new

Production Development Group (piloting Lean 6 Sigma projects to reduce manufacturing hours and cost of quality).

(Operations) Design Engineering Manager (new position) – 2012.07 to 2014.02

Setting-up a new design department to cover all Design Engineering projects of Operations Division (500 employees).

Setting-up and optimizing all fixture operations processes (demand, design, sourcing, inspection, use).

Developing the fixture business with all internal customers (BUs and workshops); ensuring over-absorption of department.

Acting as Project Manager for all fixtures projects, responsible of P&L of engineering office and fixture projects.

Coaching fixture designers to enhance technical expertise on fixtures, jigs, gages, designing & updating workshop layouts.

Lead Piping & Mechanical Engineer 2012.01 – 2012.06

GE Oil&Gas Thermodyn France (HQ Italy) – 750 persons Le Creusot

Products: steam turbines and compressors

Designing installation/tubing/P&ID packages for a compressor project (FPSO vessel for Total Australia).

Supervising all engineering quality of auxiliaries & systems engineering department (RCA, CA, PA, COQ).

Development of an application to provide guidelines on transmitter selection, via convivial design data platform.

Engineering Manager (office head) 2009.10 – 2011.05

JCF Fluid Flow India (HQ U.A.E) – 800 persons – 3 foundries + multiple workshops Emirates Chennai, Sharjah

Products: ball, butterfly, gate, globe and check valves

Managing and restructuring a full fresh engineering office, developing engineering capability and processes.

Reorganizing (25) Engineers and Drafters in 6 teams (India, Emirates, Italy), development of technical training program to level

up technical skills and reduce our project delays (from 3 months delay to on-time within 11 months).

Leading all engineering operations in India (for foundry and manufacturing workshops in Emirates) & third party suppliers.

Development and management of new PDM and ERP applications to secure smooth design data transfer (India/UAE).

Acting as Technical voice in customer meetings (Petrofac, Mc. Dermott, Saudi Aramco, Sepanir, Quatar Petroleum…).

Coaching engineers and team supervisors on lean design actions (for GAD, pattern design, magma simulation, pouring…).

Personal : Living in Foshan • Nationality: French, lived internationally – Asia • Status: Married, 32 years old

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R&D Supervisor / Technical Project Leader / Designer 2002.09 – 2009.10

Ensival-Moret China (HQ France) & Ensival-Moret France Shanghai, St Quentin

Products: centrifugal hydraulic pumps (single-stage, multi-stage, axial flow, mixed flow, vertical)

R&D Supervisor (Shanghai ) – 2007.09 to 2009.10

Setting-up a new and first R&D office in China to cover all local R&D operations (new series or size, products developments,

technology transfers); sourcing of R&D Engineers and development of skills and technical processes.

Developing all departments of China to cope with NPI (New Products Introduction).

Development of a full newly integrated PDM (Product Data Management) to manage 2D/3D data & BOMs (creation &

implementation of 6000 drawings, 100 rules, 15.000 item codes), integration with ERP, tests, go-live.

Technical Project Leader (Shanghai) – 2004.09 to 2007.08

Apprentice-Ship Program: 3 rotations of 6 months each

Managing all technology transfer projects, as matrix project manager, for slurry pumps series and API pumps series.

Liaising with product home (France, Belgium), Engineering, Supply Chain, Methods, Production & Quality.

Creating, optimizing, implementing all technical processes (QMS) of technical departments for ISO certification.

Active participant in industrial projects, including for the definition of a new workshop (and testing facility) and the moving

phase of this new workshop (engineering, project management, operations management).

Industrial Designer / R&D Engineer (Saint Quentin) – 2002.09 to 2004.08

Apprentice-Ship Program: 6 rotations of 2 months each

Designing new products (R&D) and adapting existing products.

Full implementation of a huge mechanical & hydraulic calculation program, to secure some critical technical &

manufacturing aspects of pumps (axial forces, potential leakage, impeller recut program now used on every projects.

Education

New Manager Program 2008 - 2009

Focus: international negotiation, time mgt., Accounting & Finance, Marketing, ESCP Europe, Shanghai

dealing with cultural differences, management by objectives, team motivation

Master of Mechanical Engineering 2002 - 2007

Focus: special apprenticeship engineering program (2Y+3Y contracts) with Ensival-Moret. CNAM Paris, France

Engineer thesis topic: “Industrial transfers of pumps from France to China”.

French Baccalaureate 2002.06

Major: Sciences & Industrial Technologies (Mechanical Engineering, Production, Automation) Ozanam Lille, France

Prize: 1st prize of the mechanical students for the regional mechanical competition (SINF).

Activities and Personal information

Computer Skills / Languages

Microsoft Office, Excel + VBA (calculations templates, programs), MS Project (scheduling). ERP – PDM – Workflow software.

Catia (expert), Pro-Engineer, SolidWorks + FEA (expert), Magma 3D (foundry simulations), PDS (tubing & piping),

Fluent: French / English / Chinese (Mandarin) – Academic: Spanish / Tagalog.

Approaches / Certifications / Standards

Certified Internal Auditor (China) & L6S GB. Mentoring multiple DMAIC projects, and setting-up DFSS with Design Engineers.

Knowledge on ISO, API, DIN, GB, ASTM, AISI, ASME standards. PMI oriented (PMBOK adept, PMF certified, PMP under preparation).

Hobbies

Music (oboe, clarinet), scientific magazines, astronomy (telescope), sports (diving, climbing), 3D cinema,

Design & construction (house resort & landscape, cardboard furnitures, train modelling, helicopter modelling).

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST / http://www.linkedin.com/pub/damien-saison/5/8a4/45a

Personal : Living in Foshan • Nationality: French, lived internationally – Asia • Status: Married, 32 years old

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