1. Dario Cozzolino
Via San Giacomo dei Capri, 125
80131 Naples - Italy
26 February 1976
dariocozzolino@yahoo.it
Mobiles: +3162596684 - +393488573767 Home: +390816584681
EDUCATION
“Federico II” University (Naples, Italy)
B.Eng. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering, March 2001
Thesis: Top-down metodology in designing automotive sub-components, prepared at the Research Centre of FIAT
“Elasis” S.C.p.A. in Pomigliano d’Arco (Naples).
Advisor: Professor Francesco Caputo.
Industrial Advisor: Carmine Di Martino.
ENGINEERING LICENSE
Engineering professional license (Industrial area) received from “Engineering Order of Naples”, June 2001.
TRAINING
SAP, Material Management module: PM, technical warehouse’s items management, process of purchase of the Non Productive
Items, June 2002.
“Initial management seminar”, organised by the “Management school” of Unilever Italy, focused on the analysis of the group
dynamics and on the leadership role, Jan 2003.
TPM, “Zero breakdown workshop”, organised by KCTS consulting in the factory of Port Sunlight (UK), focused on the analysis
of “equipment breakdowns” and reduction of them by the methodology and tools offered by the “Focused improvement” and
“Autonomous maintenance” TPM pillars, Feb 2003.
TPM, “Early Equipment Management”, organised by KCTS consulting in the factory of St. Petersburgh (Russia), focused on the
Early Management of the projects. The main themes of the workshop were: Project Management, Early Equipment
Management, Early Product Management, Nov 2003.
“PHA and HAZOPS Workshop”, focused on the theme “Safety in design”. The workshop aimed at analysing the safety issues
involved in the designing of a new plant of storage or dosing of dangerous raw materials, studying the Material Safety Data
Sheets, and using the “Preliminary Hazard Assessment” to have a preliminary risks assessment and the HAZOPS to design in
details the new plant, May 2003.
“Accounting & Financial awareness”, organised by the “National Training” of Unilever Italy focused on financial & accounting
themes (Financial fundamentals, Financial analysis, Decision support & investment analysis, Value creation), May 2004.
“Lean Manufacturing Seminar”, organised by Cegos consulting at Ducati Motor Holding site. Lean manufacturing & Value
chain, Lean approach for Ducati – Nov 2004.
“ABB Robot programming with SC4 plus”, at “ABB Training Center” in Sesto S. Giovanni (MI). – Apr 2005.
“Principles of Marketing & Innovation”, organised by the “National Training” of Unilever Italy focused on Market analysis,
Key
“Hygienic Manufacturing Design”, focused on hygienic design and plants auditing process– Sept 09.
“Risk Management”: tools and processes to be used to perform a deep risk management analysis in a project management– Jun
’10.
“TPM Instructor”, TPM strategy and implementation program, focus on basic pillars (AM/PM/FI), overview of all other pillars
Sept 13
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
UNILEVER Ice Cream, Marketing Hub at Rotterdam (Netherland), June 2014 to present.
Portfolio & Innovation Manager: Reporting to Category Director I’m responsible for managing Innovation projects as
European supply chain representative within core team (Marketing, R&D and SC). First point of contact for the
business I’m coordinating specific Brand platform projects involving all SC functions (factories, procurement, logistic,
planning, ect) with and E2E view.
15 big and 48 small projects managed during 2014.
UNILEVER Ice Cream, Supply Chain head office at Schaffausen (Switzerland), November 2012 to June 2014.
Operations Manager Ice Cream category: Reporting to Category Director I’m responsible for managing supply chain
projects to deliver saving. Network optimization, Master Plan implementation for European sites, product platform
(RVS) coordination and support represent main role activities.

2. UNILEVER Ice Cream, production site of Caivano (NA), February 2009 to November 2012.
Semifinished Dpt Operations Manager: Reporting to Site Operations Manager I was responsible for managing
production and maintenance of Bakery and Mix departments helped by a team of shift leaders, engineers and operators
(200).
Implemented a full reorganization inside Bakery department reducing conversion cost by 15% (-9FTE).
Freezing Dpt Operations Manager: Reporting to Site works Director I was responsible for managing production and
maintenance of the packing department (Area 2), helped by a team of shift leaders, engineers and operators (350). I
was also factory maintenance budget holder and responsible of the entire team of technical specialists (12 people).
Main goals were(2009-2012): wafer production cost reduction by 15%, factory OEE increased by 2%, waste level by
less 2%, production cost reduction by 20% by implementing transformation and restructuring project of 23 M€ saving.
UNILEVER Home Care, production site of Casalpusterlengo (Lodi), March 2006 to January 2009.
Powder & Intermediates Production manager: reporting to Site Manager, I was responsible for powders, tablets and
intermediates production with the collaboration of shift leaders, technicians, warehouse and line operators (170).
Implemented a full reorganization after tablets production shutdown on 2007.
Main goal were (2006-2009): Factory OEE increased by 3%, raw material waste reduction of 0,4 %, maintenance cost
reduction of 15%, PM module of SAP fully implemented.
UNILEVER Home Care, production site of Pozzilli (Isernia), March 2002 to February 2006.
Chief Engineer Assistant: managed innovation projects either in the making area (new equipments of storage/dosing liquids
and powder raw material) or in the packing (installation of new machines/equipments, layout modifications of production
lines).
The job role, reporting to Chief Engineer, consists of managing the innovation project, carrying out the following activities:
investment analysis and capital proposal, plant design and S&H risks assessment (using the tools of PHA and Hazops), new
plant design, final installation. Boundary activities are the relations with the R&D department, and a fully management of
the internal and external human resources available to respect timing and budget foreseen in the proposal.
Seven main projects were implemented, mainly in the packing area
Moreover, as “TPM Planned Maintenance pillar leader”, responsibility of the pillar progress in the factory, implementing
preventive and corrective maintenance to the equipments aiming at reducing maintenance costs and increasing the
production lines efficiency.
Kaizen events team leader: Kaizen team management, 12 steps tool application (e.g. line 2 speed loss reduction and
OEE increasing by 4 %)
5S/Autonomous Maintenance manager on line 2
Research Center of FIAT “Elasis” S.C.p.A, Pomigliano d’Arco (Naples), Jan-March 2002.
CAE Designer and Structural Engineer: Simulated static linear analysis on automotive subcomponents. Used the tools of
Hypermesh (pre and post-processor) and Nastran (processor) to simulate the analysis and optimize the subcomponents
design.
LANGUAGES
Italian (mother tongue), English (good).
SKILLS OFFERED
Software Packages: Unigraphics, Pro/Engineer (Pro/E), AutoCad, Nastran, Hypermesh, MS-Office, SAP (MM), Lotus Notes.
Programming Languages: Fortran, Pascal
Operating Systems: DOS, MS Windows, Unix.
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
Listening to music, playing soccer and tennis.
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