Packaging Development Engineer, 04023

Resides in Mexico

Salary: US $Open

 

Relocate: Yes

 

On the Market: Looking for an opportuity in the US

Industry: Plastics - PET- Blow Molding


 

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

 

Packaging  (twelve years)

Development and approval of different packaging components, focused on a business plan, reducing costs (10 to 40 %) and improving logistics (development of local suppliers).

Technical development of new projects  (PET & glass packages).

Quality assurance and processes, Reducing customer claims (0.24 to 0.12 % in one year and decreasing to 0.09 % in the following year), development of new products and packaging, applying technologies and materials of last generation.

Customer Services & Sales.  

 

Food Industry  (two years)

Developments of food products, applications of flavours and quality control.

 

Pharmaceutical Labs (six years)

Quality control and proofs of medicine in animals (pharmacology and toxicology).

 

 

LABOUR DEVELOPMENT

 

 

Actually I am representing a German Company in Mexico as Product Manager responsible for market research, sales and new product development in the Blow Mold Department for all the American market, (Sales & Service Engineer for a German Company that supplies Blow Molds for the PET industry). The first step was work in the Latin American Market, bringing new customers to the company.

 

 

Two years, counselling local enterprises in the packaging arena, those Firms are:

·         Syphon S.A. (package supplier for the Coca-Cola system) in the automatization of the factory, Quality System, Staff Training about Processes, Good Manufacturing Practises, Leadership.   Technical evaluation of new projects and its implementation.

·         Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes S.A. (Bemeberg Group, biggest brewery in Argentina) doing a

glass bottle qualification.

·         SANMARTIN Sales of conveying lines, Palletizers, etc..

·         Coca-Cola FEMSA de Argentina and Danone S. A.:  Developments of new packages.

 

  

q       Coca-Cola Argentina S.A.

Three years in the Packaging Department as “Packaging and Development Engineer”.

 

              Developing new suppliers of different components of packaging until approval, evaluating options of new models of packaging, development and implementation in the technical part of promotion (working directly with Marketing), technical counsel and audits to suppliers of primary and secondary packaging (PET bottles, glass bottles, aluminium cans, plastic closures, crowns, BOPP & PE labels, paperboard boxes, plastic cases, etc.).

 

 

q       Cipet S.A.  (PET Bottles Plant Owned by Coca-Cola of Argentina)

Six years in the company, the last three years as “Quality Assurance and Process Manager”,. Before that, I worked as a “Chemical Supervisor” and “Development Supervisor”.   The staff was composed by technicians and engineers (16 people).

 

 

q       Givaudan Argentina:

Two years Areas: creations and application of flavours.

 

 

Pharmaceutical Labs:

            Six years in the following companies:

q       Instituto Analitico Especializado:

Supervisor in the pharmacology and toxicology section.

q       Farmerit S.A. (Boeringer Ingelheim):

Section pharmacology and toxicology.

q       Eli Lilly Argentina:

Tecnichcals services section doing biological tests and radioinmunoassay.

q       Lazar:

Area: development, doing organic synthesis.

 

ADDENDUM


DEGREES

 

·         Chemical Technician, Technical Educational School – 1978.

·         Technician of Food Microbiology – Argentine University of Business-1988.

·         Bachelor in Food Science, Argentine University of Business -1990.  (five years degree)

·         Bachelor in Business Administration with major in Management (Degree + work experience – Josef Silny & Associates, International Education Consultants)

 

LANGUAGES

 

 

·         Spanish:  Native

·         English: Oral and written.

·         German: Knowledge





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