Remote worker with 31+ years of experience - Last seen 1 year ago

PROFILE
Experienced plant manager, operations manager and board member with 20 + years practice in major Croatian production companies such as Dioki, AD Plastik, ALMOS etc. Expert in lean management, change management, visual management, production management, plant management, project management. I have strong leadership skills. I’m very result oriented.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Organization and reorganization of production. Lean management. Operations management. Continues improvement. Innovation. 5S. QRQC. KPI’S. Leadership. Budget and planning. Corporative culture. Team building. Efficient. Production startups.


KEY SKILS
• Leadership – in my business carrier so far, I always manage to form strong multidiscipline teams. Usually, I was in direct charge for the departments of production, maintenance, technology, logistics and quality.
I am especially skilled in identifying talents in the company and their proper development.
• Lean management – I’m expert in lean management. I have practice knowledge of many lean management tools such as KPI’s, visual management, 5S, QRQC, FEMA, SMED, value stream mapping, continues improvement etc. I have a practical knowledge and experience of introducing lean management system in production and similar companies.
• Communication skills- I’m an effective communicator, Fluent in English and Croatian and communicate effectively in a multicultural environment. I have proven skills in managing high-performance, multifunctional teams. They can instill a culture of professionalism and high performance among team members. Experienced in communicating with customers from the world's largest automotive companies such as Renault, Faurecia, Visteon, and companies in the energy industry such as EBM and Mosdorfer.
• Problem solving - on operational and strategic level.

KEY ACHHIVMENTS

AD PLASTIK

Working in highly competitive and demanding automotive industry, delivering over 60000 plastic parts (door panels, instrument panels, bumpers etc.) per day. High serial production with quality level of 20 ppm. While I was plant manager my team and I succeed to daily deliver required quantities without any major quality issue. Our main customer was Renault. I’m very proud of process organization and continue improvement culture we maintained in those years. Also, I would like to stress that we always did manage to deliver budget plans and business goals.

DIOKI

Increasing a production of polyethylene factory from 30000 t/year to 50000 t/year. Together with my team, in just two-year time, we solved all major technical and technological problems that polyethylene factory faced from startup of factory.

ALMOS
Together with the team I formed, in less than a year we manage to change the culture of the company towards a more professional direction. As a result of our work, the company achieves the best results since its foundation (PLS and EBITDA) from 2020 to 2022.

CAREER HISTORY
ALMOS – board member
2018-2023
Alu Eko – owner
2014-2018
AD Plastik – plant manager
2008-2014
DIOKI – plant manager
1995-2005

🛂 Nationality	🇭🇷 Croatia
🏡 Residency	🇭🇷 Croatia
📍 Location	🇭🇷 Croatia
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Skilled in	plant manager operations manager ceo board member lean management change management visual management production management leadership strategic management team leader team motivator business consultant problem solving change managament data analyst interim manager lean manufacturing
Fluent in	croatianenglish
Preferred annual pay (min)	$50,000/year
Preferred hourly pay (min)	$70/hour
Last seen	1 year ago
Signed up	1 year ago
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