Dr. Andrea Cigada

Operation and Purchasing director for the group • Manufacturing strategies of the group: localization, make or buy decisions, investments • Assigning targets and auditing plant results • Director of continuous improvement plans and lean implementation • Sourcing strategies of the group • Managing Plant Directors, Commodity Managers and Supply Chain Managers

Director of Industrial activities and Lean Implementation for all TLS overhauls projects in Italy (21 sites, 4 Industrial managers). Responsible of efficiency, standardization, lost time reduction, cost of non-quality reduction, Make or Buy strategy and implementation. Director of Supply Chain for Italy (5 Supply chain managers). Responsible for Inventory reduction program, procurement strategies, internal flow optimization, operations and material planning.

Operation management: responsibile for lean production implementation. From February 2009: responsible for Supplier Management and Developement (SMD), implementing continuos supply base improvement process with vendors, in Zweibrucken, Germany From January 2010: Operation director of Forklift and Trucks division, Terex Port Equipment, in Reggio Emilia, Italy

Plant manager on the two plants (Desio: 180 people, Vicolungo: 120 people) dedicated to truck business. Production of acoustic and thermal insulators. Shipment to 67 costumer plants in Europe: JIT and JIS logics implemented. Full responsability on Profit&Loss.

Plant manager for the three different production lines: - components for refrigeration compressors - components for electrical accumulators - trim and form toolings for automotive industry The production lines were located in two different productive plant (Sulbiate and Vicenza). Both order-based and project-based production

Project Leader for new production lines. Team management of qualified resources on international scale. Engineering of final product and co-design of assembly. Author and co-author of 11 international patents. Responsible for benchmark and selection of external suppliers.

Master in Business Administration

Constructive Engineering, 100/100