Arturo De Diego Reyes

• Managed all Operations, QHSE, Continuous Improvement and R&D departments.
• Managed the Industrial Plan, CAPEX, Savings, P&L, Inventories and Infrastructure.
• Lead and Implemented our safety program.
• Worked to develop talented people.
• Lead the succession plan.
• 2 direct reports, 340 indirect reports.

• Head of Production, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Engineering and VAM® TCC, for our company’s three business units: Pipe and Couplings, Protectors and Accessories.
• Lead the overall safety, productivity, quality, TPM and CAPEX programs.
• P&L, savings plan, people development, preparing the organization for the future.
• 6 – 8 direct reports, around 250 indirect reports.

• Managed production, quality, engineering and supply chain areas.
• Controlled Inventory control, customers relationship, new business development.
• Team organization and people development.
• 5 direct reports, 18 indirect reports.

Technical expert and focal point for all products and processes related to API (American Petroleum Institute), Premium and Semi-Premium threads and Thread protectors.

• Prepare technical documentation for startup, production and inspection processes.
• Training threading line Team leaders, Process leaders, Inspectors and Operators.
• Ramp-up productivity, achieving full scale production in less than one year. Record production of 1,404 finished pipes in 12 hours.

Threading Line project manager of the Finishing Area.

• Responsible for threading line equipment testing, installation and startup.
• Equipment factory acceptance tests.
• Construction follow up, Cold and Hot commissioning.
• Ramp up to production

Responsible of the Protector’s R&D department.

• Design thread protectors for all new VAM® connections and CLEANWELL® protectors.
• Perform all thread protector’s qualification tests from all suppliers.
• Write and update Technical Specification.
• Intellectual property coordinator, analyzing and filing patents related to thread protectors.
• Transformed test lab into business.

Responsible for the R&D Process development projects.

• Lead team of experts developing and improving processes related to pipes and couplings threading.

Development of a connection for the Mexican market.

• VAM® HTT Connection design.
• VAM® HTF Connection industrialization and Inspection procedure.
• Bi-dent inspection method development.

• Threading process engineering.
• Tooling, CNC programming, Threading Inserts.
• Production Standards.
• Tool shop management.
• CAPEX management and execution.

Strategic engineering projects.

• Couplings shop upgrade to export couplings.
• Accessories auto-control.
• Copper plating shop process standardization.

• Assign the handling equipment (cranes, forklifts, top loaders, trucks, etc.) required to load and unload al types of ships.
• Equipment maintenance program.
• In charge of all the tools and harnesses built to load/unload different types of merchandise.