You are never too small to make a difference: Rui Rodrigues

"There is a project that really impacted me due to the importance of the project for the survival of the company and the maintenance of most of its jobs."

Tell us about the impact your work has had on so many people's lives. Don't be modest! Give us an example of a story that marked you because you had direct intervention before and after an organization and what positive impact resulted from that.

Of the many projects I was involved in, there are several that left an impression on me, some for their impact on the company's growth (which even resulted in an increase in the company's size), others for the innovation they introduced in the country, etc. But there is one project that really impacted me due to the importance of the project for the survival of the company and the maintenance of most of its jobs. This was the Fundínio Project, which was an aluminum injection industry that supplied the automotive sector and which had stopped in time (it used technology from 50 years ago, heavily supported by labor, which resulted in very high levels of productivity). low, due to the lack of automation, operating before the project with more than 120 jobs) and which reached a point where a technological leap was taken, modernizing/automating the production process, implying a reduction in the workforce to less than 90 workers or it closed its doors and sent more than 120 people into unemployment.

We carried out the project within the SI Innovation Productivity, with the difficulty of this being heavily penalized in the scoring criteria as it resulted in the reduction of jobs, and always reinforcing the coherence of the company's strategic orientation in which the only direction that guaranteed the company's survival and the maintenance of part of its staff was intended to automate the production process, it is certain that around 30 jobs would be lost but it would ensure the maintenance of almost 90 jobs and a competitive company operating in the international market, generating exports. The project was approved and the company successfully implemented the project, having even withstood the difficult period of the pandemic, exceeding almost all of the project's goals.

What do you love most about your job?

The fact that my work can be an impactful factor in the development of a company or organization. In many cases, our quality of work combined with wearing our client's shirt, making their project like our project, makes all the difference.