Marcelo Póvoa

Angestellt, Cost Engineering Manager at Jaguar Land Rover. Parts & Tooling Expert., Jaguar Land Rover UK

Warwick, Vereinigtes Königreich

Über mich

Engaged Cost Engineering Manager with 21 years of experience in 4 countries (Portugal, Scotland, Brazil and England). My experience was forged with 7 years as a Production and Quality manager and the last 14 with Cost Engineering. Expert on cost reductions techniques and experienced leader of teams that support Finance Controllers, Programme Management, Engineering design developments and Purchase negotiations with Suppliers. On Cost Engineering environment I led multi functional teams responsible for cost savings on USD 950 million vehicle turnover and cut an average of 35% on investments tooling’s. I deep dive on technical information, supplier productions lines, tooling investments, etc. to protect and maximize cost savings . Expert with Parts & Tooling for big and small volume units, from a range of low cost design to extraordinary technical parts.

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Cost reduction
Cost management
Target Costing
negotiation skills
Tooling
Team leadership
commitment
Ethics
Communication skills
positive attitude
Management
Cost Engineering

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Marcelo Póvoa

  • Bis heute 1 Jahr und 11 Monate, seit Aug. 2022

    Cost Engineering Manager at Jaguar Land Rover. Parts & Tooling Expert.

    Jaguar Land Rover UK

    - Cost Engineering Manager responsible for Body In White (BIW) and Exterior Vendor Tooling Team. - Cost analysis management for current and future models investments. - Complete support to Finance, Programme, Engineering developments and Purchase negotiations/sourcing. - EU citizen.

  • Bis heute 4 Jahre und 10 Monate, seit Sep. 2019

    Senior Cost Engineer

    McLaren

    - Achieved £ 9.3 million confirmed savings/cost avoidances in the years 2020 and 2021. - Cost development for current and future models supporting Engineering best design cost & product quality and Purchase best cost negotiation with Suppliers. - Cost development for new tooling investments. - Total Value Management to cost reduction and new design ideas. - Actively helped the development of the new Cost Engineering area at McLaren.

  • 4 Jahre und 6 Monate, Feb. 2015 - Juli 2019

    South America Cost Engineering Supervisor/Manager

    Ford Motor Company in Brazil

    - Management over 10 people on Chassis and Electrical South America team. - Cost analysis management for current (~USD 950 million) and future models on parts and investments. - Complete support to Finance, Engineering developments and Purchase negotiations/sourcing. - Cost benchmark studies over competitor vehicles. - Other Financial analysis, TVM and Cost reductions initiatives. - Report to Brazil, US and Germany management.

  • 5 Jahre und 4 Monate, Nov. 2009 - Feb. 2015

    Cost Estimator / Cost Engineer

    Ford Motor Company in Brazil

    - Cost development for parts (~USD 155 Mils) supporting purchase savings. - Cost development for future model parts and investments, supporting Engineering best design cost and Purchase cost negotiation. - Average cost avoidance of 35% on new tooling’s. - Competitors vehicles teardown and TVM providing cost and design improvements. - Vehicle parts global leader. - Lead the integration of a new software on South America that globally cost USD 10 Mils. - Several Business travels do US and Germany.

  • 3 Jahre und 7 Monate, März 2006 - Sep. 2009

    Production Engineering Manager

    MODELAÇÃO CHC (Automotive Tool Maker - Brazil)

    - Management over 30 people. - Responsible for planning, organize and control of the production plant with an improved efficiency of 30%. - Implementation, certification and subsequent operation of the NP EN ISO 9001 quality system management. Zero nonconformity on the certification audit. - Lead several mainstreams to obtain production efficiencies, quality improvements and reduction objectives.

  • 9 Monate, Mai 2005 - Jan. 2006

    Production Supervisor

    WALKERS LTD (Food Industry - Scotland)

    - Responsible for planning, organization and control of the production line. - Quality processes control inherent in the production line (certification by NP EN ISO 9001).

  • 1 Jahr und 7 Monate, Okt. 2003 - Apr. 2005

    Production Manager

    REPOVEN LDA (Portugal)

    - Responsible for planning, organization and control of the production line.

  • 1 Jahr und 2 Monate, Aug. 2002 - Sep. 2003

    Quality Engineer

    PANGA PANGA LDA – (Furniture Industry – Portugal)

    - Implementation, certification and subsequent operation of the NP EN ISO 9001 quality system management.

Ausbildung von Marcelo Póvoa

  • 5 Jahre und 10 Monate, Sep. 1996 - Juni 2002

    Industrial Engineering

    University of Minho

Sprachen

  • Portugiesisch

    Muttersprache

  • Englisch

    Fließend

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