César Mendes De Souza

Experience

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  Avibras

  Apr 2007 - Jan 2011

  Electronic Technician

  🧰 Electrical and electronic preventive and corrective maintenance of tooling machines.Main activies:✔ Management of maintenance orders;✔ Maintenance of frequency inverters, AC/DC converters, electric motors and UPSs;✔ Spare parts inventory control.

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  Salvagnini

  Jul 2012 - Mar 2014

  Service Technician

  🧰 Recruited to support customers across Brazil territory with Laser Cutting, Bending and Punching machines. Focused on delivering a high quality service, and ensure customer satisfaction by increasing the machines availability rate and production quality.Key Accomplishments:✔ Assigned to perform an operation and maintenance training for Bending Machines, Ennsdorf, Austria, 2013.✔ Returned a stopped machine (for months) to production after persistently researched and solved a hronic issue not identified by external specialists, 2013. Show less

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  Safran

  Apr 2014 - now

  • Scope: Lead Operational Excellence initiatives across multiple units, focusing on efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness. Manage Continuous Improvement Portfolio, drive Lean Six Sigma projects, implement Kaizen events, and conduct root cause analysis (RCA). Provide training and mentorship for Green Belt candidates and oversee technical leadership for the Continuous Improvement Team.• Results: o Mentored and validated the certification of 6 Green Belts in 2023 and 2024, generating $600,000 in savings.o Implemented Demand & Capacity Management app, optimizing resource allocation.o Deployed Quick Response Quality Control (QRQC), improving issue identification and resolution. Show less 📈 Acting with ownership to improve business results across different units. Earned the confidence from top leadership to implement improvement projects, initiatives and perform trainings with autonomy. Referential for OpEx events, Kaizen, Root Cause Analysis and KPI implementation. Key Accomplishments:✔ Trained 20 project engineers and engineering managers from Germany and Thailand in operating a legacy project management application. Responsible for the creation, testing, and implementation of this training, which is a standard requirement for project leaders since 2023.✔ Training and supporting PMO team from Germany Business unit in forecasting, planning and executing projects with Engineering Task management application, 2023.✔ Helped business leadership to visualize Demand and Capacity by implementing a Demand and Capacity Management application. This initiative has driven actions to solve understaff issues and level load resources throughout divisions, 2022.✔ Saved $200,000.00 in 2022 by implementing site Innovation program “Participative Innovation” on a department of 80 engineers. ✔ Increased the first time right rate (FTR) from 53% to 74% in 2021 after implementing a Green Belt certification DMAIC project to improve Embraer E2 internal design quality.✔ Increased the first time right rate (FTR) from 46% to 90% in 2020 after implementing a DMAIC project to improve Airbus A220 external quality.✔ Implementation of Quick Response Quality Control (QRQC) Routine on 2020 a methodology to identify issues and act quickly. Implemented daily rituals performed by technical teams to review daily performance and apply root cause analysis to solve issues. Show less 📐✈ Designer of Interface Points, Generic 3D models, HOV 3D models and Installation Drawings on Digital Mock-up team, providing to the customer (Airbus) an accurate Mockup design, helping to ensure the quality, fit, form and function of OEM products. Always looking for opportunities to reduce project duration and delivery more value to the customer. Constant support to Airbus virtual validation team, ensuring a good relation with the customer, what made our team a reference for OEM Digital Mock-up quality.Key Accomplishments:✔ Improved the lead-time to load virtual assembles from product structure by implementing a Design in Context PLM solution in collaboration with Airbus process methods and tools (PMT) team, 2015.✔ Development of a new Enabling Platform for center lavatories assembly catalog on A350 platform in Hamburg, Germany, 2015.✔ Implementation of Full 3D Annotation project for lavatory installation with Catia FTA license in Hamburg, Germany, 2015. Show less

  • Senior Operational Excellence Analyst

    Dec 2024 - now

  • Operational Excellence Analyst

    Jan 2019 - Feb 2025

  • Lead Design Engineer

    Dec 2017 - Dec 2018

  • Design Engineer

    Apr 2014 - Dec 2017