Leading with data, transforming with people with Edison Rodríguez

Jose Cosculluela talks with Edison Rodríguez, Plant Manager at Aceros Tonca. A Colombian engineer with a long track record running steel structure fabrication plants, Edison has led teams and transformation processes at companies in Colombia and now in Guatemala.

What will you find in this episode?

• What a plant manager really does: turning strategy into execution and running the plant as a system that is safe, productive and profitable.
• Why tonnage alone can be misleading: how much of what is fabricated is really ready for erection.
• From safety to EBITDA: the indicators that tell you whether a plant is healthy.
• Planning as the control tower and erection as the factory's main customer.
• How to manage customer changes transparently without slowing the project down.
• The importance of maintenance to avoid losing production time to preventable failures.
• The challenge of increasing the capacity of a steel structure plant.

“A plant is run with data, but transformed with people.”

An episode full of lessons on plant management, team leadership and profitable growth in the steel structures industry.

This episode is sponsored by ValidAR, automatic quality control for steel structures. Get 20% off with the code «LÍDERES»