David Lages

- Responsible for plant production goals, assuring attainment of business objectives and product standards;
- Co-ordinate with Central department heads to ensure activities are performed in respect of corporate guidance;
- Confer with local department managers to ensure coordination of material planning, production, quality control and shipping;
- Assure the quantities and types of raw materials and finished product are correctly scheduled in order to ensure adequate warehouse stocks and to achieve all forecast production goals in terms of quantities, timescales, quality and cost by controlling and coordinating the departments;
- Coordinate plant operations within company policies and procedures;
- Responsible for the product quality control for the plant;
- Direct the maintenance dept. ensuring the best technical and economic performance of installations;
- Supervise the activities of the shipping offices of the company;
- Implement plans and processes which minimize manufacturing costs through effective utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, materials, and capital;
- Maintain connection with the commercial service in the resolution of any problems;
- Responsible for evaluate, implement and review all relevant processes regarding hygiene and safety in the workplace and environmental protection;
- Analyze, propose and implement investments or modifications to manufacturing facilities;
- Together with the Parent Company, select and train plant personnel, in particular strategic staff;
- Establishes group and individual accountabilities for problem solving and cost reduction
- Improve work force operations within existing departments and processes for maximum return on efficiencies;
- Conduct employee performance reviews and foster a well-trained and motivated staff;
- Assure that collective bargaining agreements are effectively administered and that employee grievances are addressed in a timely fashion.

Management of the production, logistics and maintenance departments:
- Plan the action strategy of the Production / Manufacturing Department, under the guidance of the Administration;
- Development of a new factory in Huambo, with a survey of industrial needs for 2 production lines of soft drinks (water treatment, electricity, logistics, production, maintenance);;
- Coordinate the production planning and be responsible for its execution, taking into account the commercial objectives of the company;
- Ensure the organization and operation of the different areas and operative production devices, in terms of costs, quality and deadlines;
- Analyze deviations from planning and quickly implement corrective measures to adjust production to the needs of the Company;
- Ensure compliance with the defined quality level, ensuring compliance with food safety standards;
- Analyze the production processes of the areas, at the operational level and at the level of management indicators, and propose actions for improvement and / or optimization;
- Implementation of continuous improvement systems and definition of operational control KPIs;
- Control of stock between raw materials and finished product;
- Management of the logistic movements;
- Implementation of SAP related to the industrial process engineering;
- SAP management with focus in production and logistic resources at industrial level;
- Definition of annual preventive maintenance plan;
- Designing and control of industrial parts stock, for corrective and preventive maintenance;
- Definition of industrial layouts, for reduce costs and increase productivity.


• Goals reached

- Implementation of the SAP system related to the industrial process engineering;
- Increase productivity of final product by 20%, changing the operational layout of production lines;
- Increase the yield of coffee roasted by 33, 33%, changing the management of the roaster;
- Reduction of costs with employees by 14%;
- Reduction of waste products by 15%;
- Reduction of broken coffee by 16%, changing the layout of the production lines;
- Reduction of smoke from the roast process by 50%, changing the layout of the current chimneys.

- Responsible for planning and coordinating all work activities and resources necessary in the production sector;
- Develops strategies to ensure production goals and standards are met at minimal manufacturing costs;
- Management and optimization of the syrup rooms operations at the industrial facilities for the production of soft drinks, juices, nectars and energetic drinks;
- Management and optimization of the water treatment process focusing on water quality and water saving;
- Management and treatment of the industrial waste water;
- Training operators giving performance reviews and motivating staff to meet production goals;
- Supervision of the HACCP and Lean Manufacturing systems;
- Stock control;


• Goals reached
- Increase of the water supply flow to the factory by 55%;
- Increase of water reserves by 8.5%;
- Reduction of human errors in 22% with implementation of protocols and work methodologies;
- Reduction of the microbiological incidences contaminations in water by 30%, through the implementation of cleaning protocols along the entire water supply line;
- Elimination of delivery time of intermediate product to packaging lines;
- Reduction of the production time of the intermediate product by 16.6%;
- Control through the introduction of new working methods and return of non-compliant raw materials;
- Reduction of energy costs by 16%;

- Coordination of the syrup room operations in the 2 industrial facilities, for the production of soft drinks, juices, nectars and energetic drinks. This 3 syrup rooms feed 18 filling lines (returnable glass, pet, cans and tetra pak), with a production of 500 000 litres/day;
- Management and coordination of 70 elements;
- Management and monitoring of daily, weekly, monthly and annual rates;
- Stocks control;
- Supervision of hygiene and sanitary means of production;
- Product testing preparation;
- Strategic formulation and development of new products.

Goals reached:
- Elimination of delivery time of intermediate product to packaging lines;
- Reduction of energy costs by 12%;
- Decrease in work shortages by 15%;

- Support operational management services to Vodafone Portugal - Personal Communications, S.A.

- Formulations and development of fruit mixtures preparation (Beverage) for juice and milk drinks projects, at the Research & Development Department;
- Develop, adapt or reformulate beverage formulations as described in product development requests received from European & Africa groups;
- Preparation of small quantities of products using equipment of the pilot plant and product development lab, such as balances pumps, fillers, capers or any other equipment needed for this activity;
- Calculation of formulations using as raw data the basic characteristics of the beverage (concentration of sugar, acid, volume, juice or any other ingredient part of each formulation);
- Creative formulation of prototypes under Product Development Lab Manager, including development of the beverage, syrup and flavouring system, making sure that the product has the right balance of tartness, sweetness, colour or any other organoleptic characteristic of the final product;
- Collaborates with the Quality Department in the implementation of the HACCP System (ISO 22000:2005) and Quality System (ISO 9001/2000);
- Collaboration with the Industrial Department for the product formulations application at industrial scale;
- Financial management assistant of the beverage sector at the Research & Development Department;
- Responsible for the product specification and resolution of technical problems with clients (Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain and France);

- Quality responsible of the products manufactured, producing excellent results in the industrial sector;
- Logistic operation assistance, being responsible for the reorganisation of this sector improving raw materials prediction and storage;
- Conducting market research in the Internet searching for the best quality/price supplier.