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Vincenzo Grassia
Via Martini, 8 – Parma, Italy 43126
grassia.v@gmail.com
Born in Naples, Italy, on February, 2nd
1976. Married, two children.
Professional Experience
Apr 2012 – Present Project Manager- Global Engineering HSC Making Platform Leader at P&G - Gattatico, Italy
Responsible for Global Technical Master Plan for Hard Surface Cleaners Making process,
defining long and medium term technology design and roll out plan.
Platform Management of HSC making units with responsibilities of creating the platform base
systems and design tools working with multisite and multifunctional team.
Engineering HSC team single point contact for Off Shore engineering (L&T in India) to global
units design and implementation of off shore engineering strategy.
Identifying IP patent opportunities for innovative making process units
Responsible of full technical readiness process for global HSC initiatives (from feasibility to
delivery) for home care products leading globally a multifunctional team
Main projects and achievements:
o Designed a new making unit IP protected able to reduce the cost of new initiatives up
to 54% due to its flexibility and design concept
o Awarded with exclusive stock options prize for Instantaneous Startup of an world class
Innovative technology
o Led roll out of full technical replatforming on HSC making process globally (US, France,
Russia, Italy and Czech Republic), developing standard turn-key delivery end-to-end.
Jan 2008 - Mar2012 Senior Engineering Plant Project Manager at P&G - Gattatico, Italy
• Plant Engineering Leader, managing projects and new initiatives through liquid packing, making
and bottle blowing, water system and utilities managing an engineering and administrative
team of 8 people.
• Responsible for the plant to deliver in time within the stretch budget and with reduced
production shutdown, the engineering scope for new initiatives or process changes from
design, budget, and schedule to start-up.
• Responsible of capital management systems for full plant capital (over 20MM$/yr spending)
(incl. budgeting, forecasting, spending, asset management and Internal Control audit)
• Main projects and achievements:
o Awarded with P&G Global Award “Walking on the Water- delivering what seemed to
be impossible”, to have developed and installed a critical packing technology change
with reduced shutdown (from 21 to 5 days) developing a new method “Single Minute
installation optimization”
o Regional prize for scarcity mentality leading a multifunctional team designing and
delivering a scrap reduction project providing 1MM$ saving/yr.
Jun 2006 - Jan 2008 Making Operations Department Manager at P&G - Gattatico, Italy
• Operation Department manager of making, leading a team of 35 people including
manufacturing, Lab and maintenance teams.
• Responsible to deliver business targets for the department over the Safety, Quality and Process
Reliability targets within the dept. budget and in line with masterplan.
• Main projects and achievements:
o Enabling the growth of making system process control and micro clean compliance
results (from 54% to 95%).
o Identifying and solving process optimization able to reduce quality related losses by
50%
o Redesigned the department organization structure to enable better flexibility and
enabling further capability growth.
May 2004 - Jun 2006 Plant Quality Manager and Site Micro leader at P&G - Gattatico, Italy
• Plant Quality Leader leading a team of 13 people through operations, Micro and Chemical Lab,
Logistic department .

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• Responsible for Plant QA and Micro capability results and plant single point of contact.
• QA Internal auditor for other regional P&G plants for micro susceptible products
• Main projects and achievements:
o Identified QA and Micro gaps over the 4 M (Machine, Methods, Materials and Men)
and led plant improvement plan.
o Led full redesign of production equipments, enhancing micro clean design and
introducing new Micro procedures.
o Led the plant quality assurance capability improvement (audit score from 74% to 92%)
Nov 2002 - May 2004 Packing Process Engineer at P&G - Gattatico, Italy
• Responsible for in-process measures (process reliability, MTBF, MTTR; AM/PM and quality) for 4
packing production lines (from filling to palletizing), leading a team of 5 people
• Responsible for ongoing production improvements and of start-up of new initiatives.
• Main activities and achievements:
o Contribution to pass phase progression to TMP program in P&G (IWS program)
o Output increase (+6% in one year) and Capacity utilization record: from 75% to 82%
o Startup of first P&G late product differentiation unit
o Reduction of quality defects on shelf from 27000 to 0 ppm (part per million)
Mar 2002 - Nov 2002 Customization Supply Chain Start up Manager at P&G - Gattatico, Italy
• Responsible to deliver technical and operational readiness for a 3rd party company of 60 people
working on customization on site.
• Ensuring close connection with plant activities, defining interfaces with the two companies and
working close with HR, Legal, Engineering, Logistic depts.
Dec 2001 - Mar 2002 IWS (TMP) System and Processes Internship at P&G - Gattatico, Italy
Oct 2000 - Nov 2002 Advanced industrialization for Aircraft automatic assembly at Alenia/Airbus- Pomigliano,
Italy
Skills & Expertise
• Innovation management: Process Development, Micro Clean Design, Front end innovation, IP patenting
• Project Management: Strategic Masterplan, Budgeting and Cost control, construction scheduling optimization
• Lean Manufacturing: Manufacturing optimization, Six Sigma, Quality Assurance Capability,
• IT Capabilities: SAP R3, AutoCAD, COMOS, MS Project
Language skills
Italian Native speaker
English Very good knowledge of both written and spoken language
Spanish Knowledge of both written and spoken language
Education
July 2001 Degree in Mechanical Engineering, at Naples University ‘Federico II', thesis in product
industrialization at Airbus/Alenia. Final grade 109/110.
Professional Certificates
January 2015 Certified Advanced Micro Clean design expert, granted by Internal Micro Clean design Council,
Cincinnati, OH USA.
July 2001 Safety Management Master Certificate, granted by Italian Engineering council, Naples, Italy.
Hobbies Sailing, squash, event organization, travelling "on the road", exploring technology and science.
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Vincenzo Grassia
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