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Popa Diana

Project Manager
Remetea Mare

Summary

- Ability to develop strong working relationships

- Strong task and project leadership skills, identifying what is important - Ability to work as part of a team or independently

- Ability to mentor staff of various skills and personalities

- Focused Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments.

- Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement.

- Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. - Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Project manager

KYOCERA AVX Components (Timisoara) SRL
Remetea Mare
01.2015 - Current
  • Mission of the company is to supply Automotive Components to the main Automotive OEM being a world wide leader in the eld of application
  • Core Businesses are to produce Accelerator Pedals, different type of sensors (air, water, oil...), Automotive Plastic Components, LED PCB's for Head-& Rear lamps, Power modules
  • Our target is supplying the main automotive makers in the different area of Business (cars, truck, tractors, etc.) and in the different geographical areas
  • Main Responsibilities:
  • Communicate initiation of the project and kick-off all required project activities in project team
  • Instruct Finance to initiate the project in the relevant company systems (time recording, Purchasing etc)
  • Determine and define project scope and objectives
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
  • Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
  • Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements
  • Track project costs in order to meet budget
  • Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
  • Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments and progress
  • Constantly monitor and report progress and make adjustments as needed
  • Provide direction and support to project team
  • Present reports on project progress, problems and solutions
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
  • Escalate issues to management where a resolution cannot be found within the project
  • Lead and document an appropriate ‘Lessons Learned’ review
  • Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on manufacturing activities
  • Managed projects from procurement to commission.
  • Prepared and submitted project invoices for review and approval.

Operational Project Manager

TRW AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS SRL
Timisoara
09.2013 - 12.2014
  • 1 year 3 months
  • Company activity eld:
  • TRW produces advanced active systems in braking; steering and suspension; and sophisticated occupant safety systems, including airbags, seat belts and steering wheels
  • Responsibilities: - Member of Launch project core team - Responsible of project planning and coordinating activities in the plant, create and follow-up the project master schedule - Leads and initiates periodical project meetings and follows up action plans - Participates actively in customer complaint solving - Updates regularly project status - Responsible for planning of pre-series activities ,tests, PPAP's
  • Initiates P-FMEA meetings together with the project team - Coordinates customer audits in the plant - Responsible for planning and tracking of project budget - Responsible for capacity studies of production lines and capability studies of the process - Updates Gate Exit check-list and participates at management review meetings - Responsible of design planning, line layout , process and material ow of the project - Verifies special Characteristic list of the product in launch - Responsible of the input data's for SPC studies - Responsible of Lesson Learn activities - Responsible of Change Management and Tool Management

LAUNCH MANAGER

CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE ROMANIA SRL
Timisoara
06.2011 - 09.2013
  • 2 years 3 months
  • Company activity eld:
  • Automotive Company, former Siemens VDO, Manufacturing of electronic devices, electrical boards for automotive industry,
  • Manufacturing of airbags, clusters, Electronic Parking Breaks, Passive and Safety for automotive industry
  • Responsibilities: - Direct and manage project development from beginning to end
  • Develop project plans and associated communications documents
  • Coordinate joint teams for introduction in the production of new products from new or existing customers, starting with the planning of resources and equipment, quality of production line and ending with the early mass production, to stabilize / normalize production line performance; - Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
  • Create and submit budget proposals, and recommend budget changes where necessary
  • Initiate P-FMEA and attend to further P-FMEA review meetings
  • Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
  • Plan, schedule and track project timelines and milestones for pre-series trials and PPAP parts
  • Manage changes that occur in the structure of the product or process / production, as well as updating and maintain the database; - Collaborate with engineering team to estimate the production time, resource and cost requirements.

PRODUCTION SEGMENT LEADER

CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE ROMANIA SRL
Timisoara
04.2010 - 06.2011
  • 1 year 2 months
  • Company activity eld:
  • Automotive Company, former Siemens VDO, Manufacturing of electronic devices, electrical boards for automotive industry,
  • Manufacturing of airbags, clusters, Electronic Parking Breaks, Passive and Safety for automotive industry
  • Responsibilities: - Prepare and continues update of the production shift model, based on the customer demands
  • Assign the operators to the shifts, and take care that in each shift there are enough trained operators for all process steps
  • Manage the personal issues in the shop floor team, together with the HR department: hiring process, prepare the carrier plan based on the regular performance evaluation, identifying the necessary training's and organizing them
  • Responsible for the shop floor discipline and for the professional know-how of the shop floor teams
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of our management system
  • Monitoring the OEE of the lines
  • Responsible for realization of the daily production plan (prepared by the production planer), in the right quality, right time, and right volume
  • Supports the production planning process with relevant inputs about the production lines
  • Responsible for keeping the documents on the line updated.

PRODUCT ENGINEER

FLEXTRONICS ROMANIA SRL
Timisoara
06.2008 - 04.2010
  • 1 year 10 months
  • Manufacturing of electronic devices, electrical boards for automotive industry, telecommunication industry
  • Responsibilities, Achievements: - Define the process owner, define the line layout at a product transfer, establish engineering model and control plans
  • Establish product Standard Time
  • Calculates line capacity
  • Implement customers ECN's
  • Organize engineering department in order to start Product Validation
  • Communication with the customer based on production
  • Improve quality of customers products
  • Establish and manage Return Materials process
  • Create product prices on upgrade process
  • Manage Scrap factor.

Product & Quality Engineer

FLEXTRONICS ROMANIA SRL
Timisoara
01.2007 - 06.2008
  • 1 year 5 months
  • Product Eng area: Define the process owner, define the line layout at a product transfer, establish engineering model and control plans
  • Implement customers ECO's
  • Organize NPI department in order to start PVT
  • Communication with the customer based on production
  • Improve quality of customers products
  • Establish and manage RMA process
  • Create product prices on upgrade process
  • Manage internal Scrap factor
  • Quality Eng
  • Area: Communication with customer based on quality issues
  • Manage customer complaints using quality tools: 8D Reports;
  • Monitor yields in production.

Quality engineer

ELBA
Timisoara
09.2003 - 01.2007
  • 3 years 4 months
  • Design, development, manufacturing, sale and service for: fluorescent industrial and special Environment Luminaries; decorative, architectural Luminaries for interior design; automotive luminaries and trafic lights; indoor and outdoor lighting systems
  • Responsibilities, Achievements
  • Customer complains (customer quality control) using quality tools; quality / non-quality costs; establishing of corrective and preventive actions; process and product audits
  • Coordinated with quality control staff to complete inspections.
  • Developed action plan for company certification using ISO 9000 standard knowledge.

Education

M.D. - Electromechanical Engineering Technologies

Technical University (UPL)
Timisoara
09.2002 - 09.2003

Collège Diploma - Electromechanical Engineering Technologies

Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Tehnical University
Timisoara
09.1997 - 06.2002

graduate - Teacher Education

Teacher College
Timisoara
09.1998 - 06.2001

Skills

guarantee customer satisfaction create solutions to problems communicate with customers apply con ict managementundefined

Accomplishments

  • Completed several projects on time with low quality risks.
  • Managed projects with a high budget of 4.5 mill EUR, but staying in the planned budget.

Timeline

Project manager

KYOCERA AVX Components (Timisoara) SRL
01.2015 - Current

Operational Project Manager

TRW AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS SRL
09.2013 - 12.2014

LAUNCH MANAGER

CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE ROMANIA SRL
06.2011 - 09.2013

PRODUCTION SEGMENT LEADER

CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE ROMANIA SRL
04.2010 - 06.2011

PRODUCT ENGINEER

FLEXTRONICS ROMANIA SRL
06.2008 - 04.2010

Product & Quality Engineer

FLEXTRONICS ROMANIA SRL
01.2007 - 06.2008

Quality engineer

ELBA
09.2003 - 01.2007

M.D. - Electromechanical Engineering Technologies

Technical University (UPL)
09.2002 - 09.2003

graduate - Teacher Education

Teacher College
09.1998 - 06.2001

Collège Diploma - Electromechanical Engineering Technologies

Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Tehnical University
09.1997 - 06.2002
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