Aitor Barinaga

Member of the Management Committee of Yurrita Group, assisting the General Management in decision-making for the Operations Area. Responsible for the development and execution of the Group's global operations and sourcing strategies. Responsible for subsidiaries in Europe, America, and Africa. Reporting directly: Production Director, Logistics Director, Purchasing Director, Systems Director, as well as the heads of each subsidiary (direct team of 7 people, indirect team of 950 people).

Chief Operating Officer (COO) as Ternua Group (Ternua, Loreak Mendian, Astore , Lorpen and Ternua Workwear) board of directors member. Responsible of the Corporate own production facilities, and distribution centres (DC) in Asia, Europe and North America. And Workwear Business Unit. Direct responsible for the P&L account of own production facilities and distribution centres. Responsible of the development and execution of corporate global operations and supply chain strategies. Directions of manufacturing, maintenance, technical office, planning, procurement, logistics, information technology (IT), design and product development and quality assurance.

Director of Operations and Supply Chain in the Steering Committee. Member of the European Jarden Corporation Supply Chain Council. Responsible of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), procurement, manufacturing, inventories, logistics, quality and new products development. I achieved the optimisation of the production process, company’s material and information flow management from supplier procurement management to customer delivery, through integration of processes under Lean Manufacturing philosophy. Definition of quality criteria demanded by the market, and product specifications and quality controls. Production planning to maintain optimum inventory level. Costs reduction, inventory management and logistics. Responsible for the definition and execution of the Innovation Strategic Plan 2008-2011. Establishing links and research project with national and international entities. Member of the Executive Management Board of Innobasque – Basque Innovation Agency.

Department of Nuclear Engineering and Hydraulic Machines. Partial dedication, 45 hours per year, by means of I transfer my professional experience to the academic environment, which allows me be in contact with research groups, R&D projects and other professionals.

Definition and deployment of the Research and Development Strategic Plan 2006-2008; and annual Management Plant. Economic planning and forecast, technologic development and commercial responsibilities. Responsible for the technical and economic management for research and development projects.

Technical consultant specialised on product and manufacturing processes innovation, technology and international cooperation. Projects management and coordination. Responsible of the Metrology Business Unit of Innovalia Group. Project assessor for the research and development program INTEK 2004 from the Industry, Commerce and Tourism Department of the Basque Government.

Airbus. MSc Project Developed in Airbus facilities in Toulouse (France) and Milton (United of Kingdom), consisting in the development of an Integrated Cost Environment for the full manufacturing process of an aircraft.

Ford of Europe. Final engineering degree Project Developer in Ford facility in Essex (United of Kingdom), with the collaboration of Cranfield University (United of Kingdom), consisting in a benchmark of Ford Web site functionality, competitors analysis, and an effective Web site model development to be deployment by the company in all the European Union countries where is present.