Steve COSSON

Production & logistic director. Alcoa Howmet casting Evron

Participate as member to the 2010 management committee targets.
Follow and build up productivity plan and technical orientations.
Define industrial capacities and team sizing allocation.
Forecast and reporting over productivity, efficiency and benchmarking.
Project management over process design until production ramp up

2007 - 2008 Building / curing department, 400 op. 5 shifts.
2004 - 2007 Curing / finishing, 200op. 5 shifts

Production management & coordination over QCD objective.
Build, manage QOS reports / action plans to achieve this aim.
Manage team workers, shift leaders, technicians and engineers.
Cross-functional team building and production support.
Plant efficiency manager and continuous improvement leader.
Support the production team as expert over new process ramp up

Plant complexity expansion from 60 to 110 ref/day.
Introduction of new product lines.
Pilot Plant for Roll Tread technology.
Automation of the finishing area for production support. B.o.B. group
In collaboration with Quality; claims results from157 in 2004 to 11 ppm.

Design & manage new process from product design to cost analysis. Coordination of specific machines design and process supplier pool.
Serial and new projects continuous improvement.

Define & manage the industrial projects: 6 projects with 9 M? budget.
In charge of TPS system KAIZEN, FMEA. (10% productivity / year)
Integration Method and Process design department: 3 engineers, 1 process manager, 10 technicians)

Methods & Quality management in the PSA B U

Manage the serial products for productivity and quality issues. Participate to ramp up achievement with production management. (96p)

? Scheduling engineer: KANBAN improvement, plant scheduling.
? Lean Manufacturing engineer.

Kaizen Institute, training RECOR, SMED workshops?over lean approach.