Sergio Lemos da Silva

About Sergio Lemos da Silva

Accomplished well-rounded executive with P&L responsibility, who delivered increased revenue through strategic growth plans that optimized the manufacturing footprint and ensured best-in-class safety performance. With expertise in lean manufacturing, engineering and maintenance & reliability systems under a continuous improvement mindset and data driven decision making. Dynamic leadership style to coach and develop people from different cultures, countries and languages creating high performance work environment & employee engagement.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Instilled a Culture of Safety achieving years of no Lost time accidents Led 3 turnaround operations to benchmark levels in their corporations, reducing cost and customer complaints, increasing productivity and profitability to excellent level utilizing action planning, lean techniques and a surgical capital investment approach Successfully negotiated several labor agreements with no labor interruption25 years of Manufacturing Leadership, Engineering, Project Management and Maintenance with experience in: Cultural change, Safety (EHS)| CAPEX Management | Continuous Improvement | Inspiration leadership | Labor Relations | Lean Manufacturing | Operational excellence | OSHA/EPA Compliance | Process Engineering | Project management | R&D Management | Multicultural & Multilingual Leadership & Coaching

Experience

1. Works Manager

   Optimus Steel LLC

   Feb 2026 — Present · Beaumont, TX, US

Education

• The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

  MBA, Management and Organizations

  2007 — 2009

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Science of Lean Operations

  2015 — 2015

• Faculdade Christus Fortaleza

  MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

  2001 — 2002

• Federal University of Ceara

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

  1993 — 1998

Skills

• Cost Management
• Process Engineering
• Access
• Pdca
• Manufacturing
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Six Sigma
• Iso 9000
• Steel
• Operational Efficiency
• Total Productive Maintenance (Tpm)
• Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Standardization
• Iso Standards
• Sap
• Microsoft Word
• Project Engineering
• Change Management
• Safety Management Systems
• Team Leadership
• Industrial Engineering
• Continuous Improvement
• Leading Change
• High Performance Teams
• Iso
• Maintenance Management
• Tqm
• Employee Training
• Operations Management
• Union Relations
• Factory
• 5s
• Tpm
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Business Management
• Failure Analysis
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement