Sebastien Poulet

Mission: set-up the engineering activity through operational engineering and manufacturing accountability and start the Labinal/SAMC Joint Venture while achieving the financial objectives with direct reporting to Labinal Vice President and Europe Wiring and Services Division General Manager

- Financial performance far above the objective (P&L full responsibility for a turnover of 8 M USD for 2011)
- Expatriate team in place (32 persons) and in line with program planning and Chinese recruitment process defined and started (140 by end 2012)
- System and organization implementation
- Labinal recognized as the best Comac partner especially for communication
- Official request for JV creation has been submitted to Chinese authorities

Mission: Win C919 EWIS Program, strategic business for Labinal and Safran with direct reporting to Labinal Operational Management team to define business strategy (Opportunity to become preferred supplier for the 3rd worldwide commercial OEM and confirm worldwide leader position)

- Labinal recognized as the ideal partner by Comac technical teams
- Signature of an Engineering contract for 1st year of activity for Labinal (~12M$)
- Signature of a JV contract between Labinal and SAMC (COMAC subsidiary) after leading complex contract negotiation
- Signature of a commercial contract between the future JV and SAMC (Turnover above 500 M USD for the next 10 years)

Mission: Ensure customer satisfaction and maintain/increase Business Unit profitability (Labinal wiring most profitable business unit, Turnover ~35 M Euros) with reporting to Labinal Vichy Business Unit Director. Member of Labinal Vichy Operational committee

- Integration of new customers (increase of 13% of turnover in 24 month),
- Lead time reduction of industrialization (total of 66% over the period) and cost reduction (15% during the first year) via continuous improvement organization,
- Production start-up including production transfer success to low cost area (1 M Euros project),
- Improvement of commercial and production support through strong manufacturing en engineering transverse coordination

Mission: Project manager of production transfer in multicultural environment prior to Worksop site closure.

- No negative customer impact (on time delivery or quality), and On time transfer achievement,
- 15% saving on transfer cost budget through strong cost management.

Mission: Program and Production manager for Worksop site in charge of operation, quality and financial results (Turnover 3.5 M Euros)

- Operation management for the full activity resulting in Production on time (100% on time delivery (OTD) to customer location) for this new contract with a new customer (new business start-up),
- Productivity and Delivery Turnaround Time (TAT) in line with Business Plan
- Quality performance at required customer level (>98% FTQ)

Mission: Industrialization followed by manufacturing (Management of 100 persons)

- Create a strong manufacturing team through team building management and performance management with real time indicators
- On time delivery (OTD) of all products on time with 98% first time quality (confirmed by 100% customer inspection)
- Productivity ramp-up above activity standards

Mission : Reorganization of manufacturing engineering department integrating project management training using QQCD objectives and budget follow-up.

- Preventive maintenance plan implementation (TPM)
- Manufacturing management process implementation through value stream mapping, lean and continuous improvement activity and warehouse reorganization
- Bar code systems used throughout the factory and later deployed on another Business unit

Missions: Team supervisor (20 persons) and Manufacturing Engineer in a start-up environment (from 0 to 500 employees in 2 years)

- Productivity improvements allowing for production ramp-up without recruitment (30% production increase) with direct hands-on management
- Kits implementation to improve quality and manufacturing efficiency
- 5S implementation