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Henri NICOLAS

BORDEAUX

En résumé

My entire carrier was done around Composite parts.
I started in France in 95 as Production (Operations) manager for road cars bodywork parts using RTM technology. Then I moved to a R&D and program manager position within the same company, Sotira.
I moved to England (British American Racing) then Italy (Ferrari) to achieve my dream, i.e. Formula one Composites structural prepreg parts.
After nearly 10 years and 5 F1 constructor World titles, I decided to face a new challenge. So I came back to France to work on Airbus A350 XWB -900 composite fuselage. I started on the nose with Latécoère (Section 12 and lower unit), then on Section 15 as the Engineering manager for Spirit Aerosystems. I was part of the Spirit France creation as the first Spirit France employee and created the Toulouse team. I consider that we succeeded with the delivery of the first A350-900 Section 15 MSNs to Airbus. I felt ready to face a new exciting challenge.
I so decided to join Infosys in March 2013 to develop the Engineering Aerospace business in Europe. That was mainly a commercial job.

After my wife loss, I rebuilt myself end of 2015 and felt ready to face a new challenge.

So in July 2016, I left Toulouse and joint Stelia Composites, subsidiary of Airbus Group, near Bordeaux, as technical manager.

Spécialités
Project management around structural parts.
CFRP lightweight structures design, manufacturing, assembly.
Short schedule.
Work under pressure.
Team builder, recruitment, delegation.

Mes compétences :
Matériaux composites
Automobile
Ingénierie
Aéronautique
R&D
Gestion de projet
Expertise technique

Entreprises

  • Stelia Composites - Responsable technique

    2016 - maintenant En charge de l'industrialisation en Design and build d'une structure composite aéronautique.
  • Infosys - Directeur de l'Engineering pour l'aéronautique et spatiale europeenne.

    Roissy en France 2013 - 2015 En charge du développement technique et commercial d'Infosys sur le marché européen de l'ingénierie Aéronautique et automobile. L’Ingénierie chez Infosys inclut les activité du bureau d'etudes (Conception, calcul, methodes), IT/IS (Developpment et maintenance d'applications dédiées a l’ingénierie) et le PLM.
  • Spirit Aerosystems - Responsable Engineering et Programme

    Montoir-de-Bretagne 2008 - 2013 Managing a team of 100+ people in Toulouse (FR), Wichita(US), Bangalore(IND) and Moscow(RUS).
    Spirit Engineering Plateau in situ Airbus creation.

  • LATECOERE - Composite Nose fuselage Manager

    Toulouse 2008 - 2008 In charge of Composite Nose Fuselage Development.
    Has developped and managed a team of 26 persons, including Design, Stress, Manufacturing, MP and quality to develop and industrialize Composite parts for Airbus A350 XWB.
  • Ferrari F1 - R&D senior Engineer

    St Martin-Bellevue 2001 - 2008 In charge of developping alternative composite solutions to improve our Formula One car.
  • Ferrari F1 - Composite design Engineer

    St Martin-Bellevue 2001 - 2007 In charge of designing Formula One Composite chassis parts including chassis, bodywork, crash structures.
  • British American Racing - Composite Design Engineer

    1998 - 2001 Designing composite parts. Fully in charge of crash structure parts.
  • SOTIRA - Responsable R&D

    1996 - 1998 Head of R&D for automotive supplier on composite body panels.
    Program manager for Aston Martin DB7 bodywork parts.
  • SOTIRA - Responsable de Production

    1995 - 1995 Production manager: FORD Fiesta spoiler (1000 parts per day)
    - New plant start
    - Specification and machines delivery.
    - Process development, Team training.
    - Process optimization from raw material choice/development to A class painted part delivered to FORD.

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