
Muriel Castex
Senior Lean Six Sigma Consultant | Supply Chain
Salary / Daily rate
Utrecht, Netherlands
Mobility: Toulouse, Paris
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with 15+ years optimizing supply chain and manufacturing processes for global companies. Specialized in accelerating therapy delivery through digital transformation and operational excellence, with proven track record of reducing delivery times and increasing production capacity. Ready to help your finance and operations teams streamline processes and boost performance.
Work experience
Founder
Castex Consulting
Jan 2021 - Present
5 years 10 months
✨Helping CFO and operational teams to accelerate new therapies to their patients by optimizing supply chain processes, resources and production capabilities. 🚀M+31639871961 📧 [email protected] 🎯www.castex-consulting.nl
GE
Jun 2008 - Dec 2020
12 years 7 months
GE Healthcare | Life Sciences | Cell-Therapy Center Cytiva | Geneva Switzerland
Senior Lean Manufacturing Manager | Master Black Belt
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
3 years
GE Healthcare | Life Sciences | Cell-Therapy Center Cytiva | Geneva Switzerland
• Full-time allocated to Integration of family company Biosafe within GE • Defined and led the site Lean Roadmap (VSM) in collaboration with site leadership team • Led capex projects implementation with site COO & CFO. • Led production capacity increase plan with COO: recruitment plan, lean training, implementation of new production shifts • Personal coach for new operational team leaders / lean mentor for leadership team • Led GMP/ISO 13485 certification preparation • Reduced client delivery time by simplifying logistic cycle with our external partners in Schiphol Warehouse and sterilization partners. • Trained, coached site project leaders. • Brought Lean Six Sigma Agile tools and practices • Designed the optimal flows of cleaning rooms, warehouse, R&D and quality dpts into the new European Cell&Gen Cytiva therapy center, GMP approved
Lean manager for EMEA Sites
May 2015 - Dec 2018
3 years 8 months
GE Healthcare | Medical Devices | Life Sciences | EMEA
• Continuous improvement Project Lean Leader for EMEA sites. • Supported daily site leadership teams to implement continuous improvement program to improve production lines outputs (increase quality and reduce cycles focus), material flows (reduction inventory focus), maintenance processes (lower costs focus) on GE HC sites based in Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Norway and Sweden. • Led implementation of Lean CI site strategy W2W for medical devices EMEA production sites. • Focused on cycles reduction of radio-pharmacies delivering contrast media to hospitals based in the Netherlands. • Coached and mentored Lean Six sigma EMEA projects as Lean Master Blackbelt. • Led Brilliant Factory 4.0 initiatives implementation onsite such as app's development, data/tools digitalization and processes automation.
Certified Lean Sixsigma Black Belt
Nov 2011 - Apr 2015
3 years 6 months
GE Power | Gas turbines | LM engines
Lead and implement with success Lean Six Sigma projects for Rheden Service Center and EMEA region .• Established standard KPI’s format for the three services aero centers (Rheden, Houston, Brazil). Effectively managed KPI’s monthly review to drive with success 2013 Service Centers Goals. • Improved gates cycles time for EMEA Service Center with BB projects. • Established 5S on the EMEA Service Center and run Lean AWO and Simple Lean events to improve services processes. Lead Kaizen Team projects resulting in costs reduction.
Central Europe Field Services Manager
Jun 2008 - Nov 2011
3 years 6 months
GE Power | Gas turbines | LM engines
Field Services (FS) Client support in France, Benelux , Germany and Russia for Aeroderivative Gas Turbines- Manager for 30 field service engineers • Managed day-to-day FS planning onsite providing best skilled site support engineers team on time to site as agreed with client. Effectively implemented new planning oracle-based program to standardize site requests process. Recruited and trained Russian FS Engineers. • Simplified invoicing process with our package suppliers for our French customers (GB project). Reduced invoice cycle time by 50%. • Established only in few months standard processes for FS team processes to ensure safety onsite - such as weekly call with the team, audit onsite and near misses process.
Customers services Regional Manager
Emerson
Feb 2004 - May 2008
4 years 4 months
Customers Support on Flowmeters Technology (Coriolis, Magmeters and Vortex). • In charge of 4 customers Services Teams - 25 inside sales engineers form France, Belgium, Italy and Spain, managed technical client's questions, quotes cycle, orders and invoicing OTD. • Process continuous improvements leader. Participates and facilitated internal Lean Action Workouts improving OTD and relations with local sales teams. • Internal Customers Centric program trainer Trained and coached internal multi-departments teams on internal customers focus program.
Area Sales Manager
Bal Seal Engineering
Mar 2001 - Jan 2004
2 years 11 months
Supported Customers in France, Spain and Italy. Offered expertise in customized sealing and connection solutions. Prepared the commercial offers and contracts for keys customers. Developed new business with Automotive and Pacemakers Clients.
Offshore Field Engineer
Schlumberger
Jan 1999 - Feb 2001
2 years 2 months
EMEA support
Provided data analysis based onsite measurements. Covered the EMEA region – on-shore and off-shore for the main O&G companies as clients (Africa, Russia, NorthSea)
Education
Crotonville Alumni
Leadership Training
2017 - Present
9 years 4 months
Apollo RCA leader @GE quality team
Apollo methods see: http://www.apollorootcause.com/about/apollo-root-cause-analysis-method, Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
2013 - Present
13 years 10 months
Grade: Leader Certification
⛵️ Royal Yachting Association (RYA)
⛵️ Day Skipper
2021 - Present
5 years 3 months
Schouten & Nelissen / CRR Global
ORSC@Work, Coaching
2019 - 2019
1 month
🏅Engineer - (GE) Lean Master Back Belt - Operational Excellence Leader
2013 - 2014
1 year 1 month
Grade: LEAN LEADER CERTIFICATION
Université Paris Cité
Master, Sensors and measuring systems
1998 - 1999
1 year 1 month
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Maitrise, Solid Physics
1992 - 1997
5 years 1 month