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Ioannis Panakis

Xanthi

Summary

Dynamic Senior Production Supervisor with a proven track record at SunLight Energy Group, leading 70 employees to enhance safety and productivity. Expert in lean manufacturing and problem-solving, achieving significant waste reduction. With strong management skills driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SENIOR PRODUCTION SHIFT SUPERVISOR

SUNLIGHT ENERGY GROUP
05.2023 - Current
  • Direct and motivate 70 production employees.
  • Liable for the whole complex plant, for safety equipment/personnel ,maintenance and prioritizing activities on shift basis.
  • Responsible for 10 production departments from raw material to semi finished goods up to finished good product.
  • Lead safety initiatives and best practices that reduced workplace injuries and employee awareness of safe practices from daily Gemba walks.
  • Manage day-to-day shift operations for optimal productivity, ensuring a high-quality output and timely delivery in each production step when a kanban appeared.
  • Strong involvement to continuous improvement project,reduce waste and improved efficiency, by participating actively and implementing plenty lean manufacturing-6 sigma practices.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify areas for improvement in product design and manufacturing processes.
  • Mentoring team leaders to improve team management and create personal development plans.
  • Reports to management shift performance report


FIRST LINE PRODUCTION MANAGER OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE

NEXANS HELLAS
07.2020 - 04.2023
  • Direct and motivate 3 shift leaders
  • Conduct and inspire 30 production personnel.
  • Meet multination standards of safety/quality/delivery/cost/environment.
  • Aligned and responsible for perfect quality products based on customers specification.
  • Project manager -Study and apply 5s achieving fast set up and better performance.
  • Project manager-Create and Implement Ergonomics for better work environment.
  • Root cause analysis and problem solving to annihilate scrap cost.
  • Improving process to increase quality and productivity.

SCRAP MANAGER

NEXANS ELLAS
05.2020 - 04.2023
  • Responsible for Storage, manage and load for recycle materials/Metals.
  • Manage Semi finished goods of factory. Accomplished 50% reduction of aging stock.
  • Guide 6 people in scrap process to recycle (metals and plastics separation).
  • Increase savings from recycling activity by 20% .

ASSISTANT IN PLANNING DEPARTMENT

NEXANS HELLLAS
11.2019 - 06.2020
  • Trained and worked much in sap system software.
  • Develop in updating work production cycles.
  • Updating Microsoft Office files to meet the production requirements and ordering from suppliers,
  • Creation and corrective in cable codes orders on the system data.

Education

MECHANICAL ENGEENIRING INSTITUTE (ATEI) LARISA
Thessaly, Larisa Greece
10-2020

Associate of Science - LEAN PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY BUSINESS

NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Athens, Greece
08-2024

Associate of Science - PROCESS MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY BUSINESS

LEAN SIX SIGMA YELLOW BELT
IASSC-PeopleCert (Remote)
04-2025

Skills

  • Leadership

  • Team Management

  • Manufacturing operations

  • Motivation

  • Production scheduling

  • Decision making

  • Problem solving

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  • Autodesk Inventor

  • Microsoft Office

  • Autocad

  • Solid Works

  • Sap software

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Certification

  • Certificate computer science knowledge Unicert Office
  • Certificate RTI International rescue training
  • Certificate BLS Basic Life Support

Timeline

SENIOR PRODUCTION SHIFT SUPERVISOR

SUNLIGHT ENERGY GROUP
05.2023 - Current

FIRST LINE PRODUCTION MANAGER OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE

NEXANS HELLAS
07.2020 - 04.2023

SCRAP MANAGER

NEXANS ELLAS
05.2020 - 04.2023

ASSISTANT IN PLANNING DEPARTMENT

NEXANS HELLLAS
11.2019 - 06.2020

MECHANICAL ENGEENIRING INSTITUTE (ATEI) LARISA

Associate of Science - LEAN PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY BUSINESS

NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Associate of Science - PROCESS MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY BUSINESS

LEAN SIX SIGMA YELLOW BELT

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