Cornel Olendraru, 42, joined UMCD in 2010 as director of fabrication, and will take over the management of the entire plant from Jacques Eudeline, who is due to retire.
Olendraru is the fourth Romanian manager appointed to a top position in the Renault group in Romania in recent years, after Sorin Buse (Renault Technologie Roumanie, 2010), Aurelia Leoveanu (Renault Credit International, 2012) and Anica Muntean (Technical Center in Titu, 2012).
The new head of UMCD worked in Honeywell plants in France, the United Kingdom and Italy, and in 2001-2003 was in charge of all the group’s factories in Europe.
In 2003, he returned to Romania at Honeywell Garret, where he was production manager, logistics manager and plant manager.
Occupying 16 hectares, UMCD is the second-largest factory in the Mioveni industrial platform. It has 3,800 employees and seven fabrication departments, which assemble basic aluminum components, engines, gearboxes and other parts for Dacia, Renault and Nissan vehicles made in Romania and abroad.