Manager Chemical Engineering

ELIHÚ REPPER VELÁZQUEZ

Senior Manager – Operations / Manufacture / Production / Quality / HSE /

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt & Kaizen Expert

PROFILE

Chemical Engineer with a Master in

Administration (Industrial specialization)

and a Master in Marketing, with a

certificate in Finance. I am also certified

as a Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt, Kaizen

Expert and Scrum Foundation

Professional (SFPC), with significant

experience in transnational cosmetics,

beverages, and consumer goods

manufacturing. Experience as Masters

professor.

With over nineteen years of experience, I

have developed abilities such as

strategic planning, global-oriented

perspective, people development,

leadership, company results and benefits

improvement (for example: profitability,

efficiency, productivity, quality, social

impact, positive work environment and

high-quality customer service),

teamwork, integrated operational

excellence, strategic planning,

continuous improvement and agile

methodologies, communication and

negotiation.

I have demonstrated high performance

in multicultural work environments and

with increasing responsibilities in areas

such as operations, quality, lean

manufacturing, safety and ecology,

supply chain, and production.

CONTACT

MOBILE:

+52-1-553-124-7406

WEB SITE:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elihu-

repper-4a108352/

E-MAIL:

*******@*****.***

LANGUAGES

Spanish: Native

English: Fluent

German: Basic

EDUCATION

Tecnológico de Monterrey – Virtual University, Querétaro campus february 2012 – july 2014

Masters in Marketing

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Chemistry school february 2005 – december 2006

Masters in Administration (Industrial specialization) Universidad Iberoamericana – Santa Fe campus

august 1995 – july 2000

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Economics school august 2018 – actual

Bachelor of Economics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jafra Manufacturing – Querétaro

Global Quality & HSE Sr. Manager

july 2019 – september 2020

• Responsible of Global Quality, Safety, Hygiene and Ecology results in the company. Reporting areas: Quality results includes: Quality Control & Laboratories (Components, Raw Materials, Bulks, Finished Goods, Packaging Engineering and Microbiology), Quality Assurance, Supplier Quality Assurance & TPM’s, Quick Response for Quality Complaints

(QRQC), Safety, Hygiene and Ecology.

• Health Officer (Sanitary Officer) for the company for COFEPRIS.

• Achieved certifications: COFEPRIS GMP’s Certification, FDA, HALAL, Clean Industry.

• Safety: TRIR = 0.0, over two years without recordable incidents or lost time accidents, 10% reduction of first aid incidents.

• Implementation of “Supplier certification” program with benefits of 1 million pesos in the first year.

• 15% complaints reduction by global management system implementation as part of QRQC process.

• Savings projects management and implementation generating 1 million pesos.

• Saving of 700 K pesos in area’s variable expenses, reducing the operating budget by 5%.

Operations Sr. Manager

july 2017 – july 2019

• Responsible of Operations results. Reporting areas: Production (3 Business Units), Maintenance, Process Engineering, Warehouse and Manufacturing Quality.

• OEE increase from 60% to 75%. MPSA improvement from 80% to 90%.

• 20% reduction changeovers (cleaning and sanitization). CERTIFICATIONS & COURSES

• Scrum Foundation professional

certificate (SFPC), Certiprof

• Aspiring Leadership Programme (ALP),

Ashridge Business School

• Lean Kaizen Expert, Kaizen Institute

• Investment Project Evaluation, Coca-

Cola University

• Fierce Conversations, Coca-Cola

University

• Transition Management, Coca-Cola

University

• Situational Frontline Leader. Coca-Cola

University

• 4 disciplines of Execution (Champions).

Franklyn Covey

• The 7 habits of highly effective people.

Franklyn Covey.

• Coaching and Feedback. The Coca

Cola Company

• Leadership seminar. UNAM

SKILLS & ABILITIES

HOBBIES

• Teaching

• People development

• Build team work

• Improve company results and benefits

• Learning

• Music

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 10% reduction of NCR’s generated by execution errors and procedures and quality standards non-compliance.

• IRA increase from 28% to 87%. 40% reduction of downtimes due lack of materials.

• 20% improvement of MTBF and MTTR eliminating recurring failures by root cause analysis methodology.

• 85% new products VSU process, including process validation.

• Saving of 1 million pesos, representing 4% of budget. Business Unit Manager (BUM) – Skin Care & Toiletries may 2016 – july 2017

• Responsible of Business Unit (BU) results including Budget and standard cost fulfillment. Reporting areas: Warehouse, Production, Maintenance and Scheduling personnel assigned to BU.

• Business Unit OEE increase from 49% to 56%.

• Operational Team Leaders development (12).

• 5% reduction of total production lead time (focus on waste elimination throughout value stream).

• Business Unit MPSA improvement from 85% to 90%.

Production & Operational Excellence Manager

november 2010 – may 2016

• Responsible of Production and Operational Excellence team results. Reporting areas: Filling, Compounding and Operational Excellence

(Process and Industrialization Engineering).

• OEE increment from 28% to 50%. PTS improvement from 65% to 95%.

• 10% reduction in Compounding process time, thru movement waste elimination.

• 5S’s and TPM Phase I implementation in Production areas.

• 60% defective products reduction delivered to Distribution Center.

• 60% overtime reduction thru efficiency improvement.

• High Performance Team (HPT) implementation in Production areas.

• 50% decrease of consumption variations of production orders. Coca Cola Company – México City

Production Sr. Coordinator

july 2008 – march 2010

• Defect rate reduction at six sigma levels (2009 – 1.2 ppm; 2010 - 2.1 ppm).

• Operational Excellence tools implementation (planning board, 5’s, work balance, standard work).

• 70% overtime reduction in 2009 (vs 2008).

Process Control and Monitoring Coordinator - Quality october 2006 – july 2008

• Implementation Leader of Operational Excellence tools in Quality Lab (KPI

– OSE Overall Service Effectiveness).

• SAP R3 Power user (QA module).

• 5% reduction in production process time thru statistical analysis. Packaging Material Coordinator – Quality

may 2002 – october 2006

• Development and implementation of packaging material procedures.

• Packaging material suppliers’ audits (execution and follow-up).

• Saving of 1 million pesos thru packaging material optimization (thickness). Jr. Chemist (Analyst) – Quality

may 2001 – may 2002

• Sampling, physicochemical and microbiological analysis of ingredients, intermediate and finished products.

• Analytical instruments validation and maintenance thru statistical studies

(for example: Cp, Cpk, R&R).

• Creation and upgrade of quality system documentation. 90%

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Office

Lean Manufacturing

Change Management

Negotiation

Communication

Team work

Collaboration

Leadership

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