Alejandro Jimenez Ospina

Koa Impact is a swiss-ghanaian start-up that offers upcycled products from the cocoa fruit, providing an additional income to cocoa farmers in Ghana.

Project Leadership on the conceptualization, design, procurement, and construction coordination of Africa’s largest factory dedicated to processing fresh cocoa fruit.
Design and engineering of mobile processing units, improving and
development new models for reliable operations in rural areas in Ghana.
Managed technology international Supplier Relationship successfully, ensuring the timely availability of equipment, components, and spare parts to maintain seamless infrastructure functionality.
Optimized technical department management, implementing management procedures to ensure reliable and efficient infrastructure to support production operations in Ghana.
Provided remote support to Cross-Functional teams to streamline and optimize operations at an existing pilot factory in Ghana.

HPW is Africa’s largest producer of premium dried fruit and an important innovator in fruit snacks. Yearly exporting ca. 2500 tonnes from Ghana.

Production management team member, supporting the management, leadership and supervision of production workforce of about 500 employees.
Led continuous improvement initiatives in manufacturing processes. with a notable success in optimizing the dry coconut production line. These improvements enhanced the final product’s quality and resulted in a 100% increase in production capacity.

Guarantee production quality and ensure compliance with customer specification.
Collaborated on Implementing and maintaining food safety standard systems HACCP, BRC and IFS at the production level .

Spiffy is company with ca. 50 employees that offers services for fabric finishing mills in the local industry sector of textile and garment.

Led the implementation of processes of laser engraving and ozone washing, to expand and enhance the service portfolio and deliver innovative and sustainable solutions to customers.

Enhanced production management by streamlining SOPs, production standards and process optimization.

Defined and Implemented the control procedure for chemical raw materials subjected to control of national interest.

• Led brand identity revamping and developed services portfolio to enhance visibility and to target potential customer in the local textile sector.
• Engaged and established strong commercial relationships with new customers to optimize factory utilization
• Collected, arranged, and input information into database system.

• Provided computer assisted technical drawing for road projects planning.
• Collaborated with technical drafting on seven new road projects to access wood plantations from Smurfit Kappa for production of paper certified FSC.
• Consistently adhered to customer standards for drawing formats, layering conventions, labeling practices, and file storage procedures.

JMD is a specialized civil engineering company dedicated to road consulting and construction projects for Smurfit Kappa Cartón de Colombia.

• Managed budget allocations to prioritize spending on high-priority projects, optimizing resource utilization.
• Managed project contracts to ensure resources availability, personnel , machinery and tools, ensuring timely achievement of milestones.
• Managed relationship with stakeholders, client and contractors on work orders basis.
• Responsible to ensure all projects complied with legal requirements and regulations for their execution.
• Ensured health and safety management system complied with occupational health standards as certified by the Colombian Safety Council.

Civil engineering, Construction and renovation company.

• Managed effectively control and distribution of machinery and tools the projects carried out in the metropolitan area.
• Responsible for selection of suppliers and purchasing of materials by project.
• Maintained accurate records of incoming and outgoing shipments, ensuring timely delivery and proper documentation.

Produvarios is a leading company in the manufacturing and marketing of thermoformed plastic products for commercial applications.

• Realized methods and times analysis in production process leading to production planning optimization and process waste reduction by reutilization fo residual materials.
• Implemented kanban system for product in process identification, control and record of process flow, this allowed improvement the resource management of the work orders.
• Designed ergonomic workstations to reduce operator fatigue and improve overall productivity levels.