Samuel Penneçot
Senior Operations & Industrial Transformation Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Avignon, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Railway industry transformation expert with 32+ years driving operational excellence and innovation. Proven track record of turning non-profitable operations into hypergrowth businesses, reducing delivery times from 6 months to 3 days, and achieving 10-70% productivity gains. Founder of two successful companies specializing in rolling stock optimization and industrial turnarounds.
Work experience
Founder
Rolling Stock Consortium (RSC)
Aug 2023 - Present
3 years 3 months
💡 Innovation management / Railway Expert / Rolling stock / Transition management https://www.rsc.team/ ✅ Innovation: From idea to realization doers (TRL2 to TRL9) ✅ Rolling stock: fleet improvement / technical & organizational expertise / Retrofit & innovation Integration
Founder
Mercury
Mar 2020 - Present
6 years 8 months
France · Hybrid
✅ Managing Director for industrial plants & fleet management ✅ Turnaround from non profitable activities to hypergrowth business ✅ Crisis management : governance, Cash flow, Customer care, Operations & projects, quality & Services ✅ Railway : Project director for passenger private and luxury trains, Compliance & agreement for Railway regulation (TSI & UE ECE 2019/779)
Chief Operations Officer
Erion France
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
2 years 7 months
71300 Montceau-les-Mines, France
✅ Business Transformation: Consolidating the foundations in France (Safety, Quality, Availability and Reliability of locomotive fleets), business development (France, Belgium, Germany) ✅ Construction of a Light / Heavy Maintenance workshop with pit lathe. ✅ ISO certification and preparation UE ECE 2019/779 certification.
Chief Technology Officer
Oc'Via Maintenance
Sep 2014 - Oct 2017
3 years 2 months
Nîmes, France
✅ Railway mixte line (high speed + freight) : Design review, receipt, commissioning ✅ Creation from scratch from Maintenance business model to effective operation ✅ Relations with SNCF Réseau and SNCF Infra for a perfect & safe operative integration ✅ Approvals, agreements and certifications
Consultant
FreelanceFreelance
May 2011 - Aug 2014
3 years 4 months
Paris, Montréal, Casablanca · Hybrid
👉 Moroccan mining industry (16 sites) : Industrial & logistics optimization, ERP improvment 👉 Intermodality and freight/waste flow mixUrban : logistics study for Casablanca 👉 Wooden kit houses : Logistics Master Plan for ramp up 👉 Medical implants : Maintenance action plan for site of production 👉 Oracle / Value Chain Planning / Service Parts module : Functional support
Groupe SNCF
Jul 1999 - May 2011
11 years 11 months
On-site
Master Data Manager
Sep 2009 - May 2011
1 year 9 months
On-site
“Referential Data” project manager for the Rolling Stock Department. Data mapping, classification, cleaning, urbanization and implementation of an MDM ERP linked to SAP
Director of the National Center for Industrial Logistics
Jul 2005 - Aug 2009
4 years 2 months
On-site
Creation of the Industrial Logistics Center and transformation of industrial logistics without service interruption. Change management : from +/- 6 months of delivery time to 3 days (1 for emergencies) 650 people; ERP deployment (20,000 users) on 80 customer sites; 135,000 items; €600 million turnover; 3000 order lines/day, 650 suppliers
Production Director
Jul 2003 - Jul 2005
2 years 1 month
On-site
Management of a fleet of 750 locomotives and railcars, 4 sites, 235 people Maintenance Day to day (7/7-365) Transformation of activities to find economic balance Renegotiation of contracts with customers. Building of a new workshop for passengers trains. Obtaining Rail Safety, NF Service and ISO certifications
Internal Consultant
Jul 1999 - Jul 2003
4 years 1 month
On-site
Carrying out 10 operation/maintenance performance missions with Lean Management deployment then generalization to all Rolling Stock, creation of industrial standards and Methods Centralized Productivities of 10 to 70% depending on Rolling Stock (locomotive, coaches, self-propelled trains) without social conflicts.
Purchasing & stock Manager, Organization manager
Renault
Jul 1993 - Aug 1999
6 years 2 months
Choisy le Roi - Chatellerault · On-site
Purchasing optimization and CMMS project manager : TPM/CMMS implementation interfaced with SAP FICO Euro & Year 2000 project management for IT and organization Stocks - 30%, service rate + 25%, purchase discounts 5 to 30%
Education
université de Franche-Comté
DESS Productique Appliquée
1990 - 1991
1 year