Francesca Pipitone

Launching a new plant, starting from a green field, in Trnava, SK.

Ensuring creation of plant structure and infrastructure, aligning with constructor.

Start-up of the plant with 1 SMT line, 1 THT line, and 1 final assembly line, fully automated.

• Management of a production facility with 200 workers, producing e-mobility and Safety and Security products (both SMT and final assembly).
• Oversaw operations, including production, planning, maintenance, repair and process quality
• Operation continuous improvement management through ChangeMaker SW using DOI levels
• Reduced Safety and Security costs by 20% ensuring profitability of products
• Managed multi-customers new OBC line, reaching customer SOP and ensuring reliable outputs.

• Combining of Project Manager activities and Leader of a work unit composed by five Junior Project Managers sharing product platforms
• Project Management training for Junior Project Managers
• Weekly dashboards review
• First Level of escalation.

• Project Manager OEM for an automotive Tier1 Electronic Company
• I managed six projects (scope: OBC, DCDC, OBC+DCDC) starting from RFI/RFQ phase and kick-off till SOP
• Management of RFI/RFQ: ensuring OEM technical requirements are evaluated, collecting costs estimation, writing business case and deciding part price together with purchasing team
• Complete regular project reviews, generating status dashboards and reporting to customers and internal management on a weekly basis
• Budget monitoring on a weekly basis and creation of action plan in case of deviations
• Oversee the project team, ensuring successfully implementation of each element of the project in line with specified milestones and budget
• Change Request management through change management process
• Act as the project interface between all stakeholders
• Monitor project risks, implementing preventive, corrective and mitigation actions.

• Project manager of several PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) projects, both with italian and internationl customers.