PARIS — Renault has promoted head of high quality Thierry Charvet to govt vice chairman Group Trade, succeeding Jose Vicente de los Mozos, who’s returning to his native Spain after 43 years on the automaker to “proceed his private tasks,” Renault mentioned.
Charvet will begin in his new place on Jan. 15, 2023. He will likely be a member of the group’s board of administration.
Along with his place as head of business operations, de los Mozos was additionally head of Renault on the Iberian Peninsula. He will likely be succeeded in that put up by Josep Maria Recasens, at the moment senior vice chairman, technique and enterprise growth at Renault Group.
Renault CEO Luca de Meo provided reward for De los Mozos, noting that he set an instance for younger folks after beginning as an apprentice at Renault at age 17 and changing into a prime govt.
“Underneath his management, our industrial system has develop into a real world reference, all the time on the forefront of the sector,” de Meo mentioned in a launch.
Among the many tasks initiated underneath de los Mozos are Renault’s ReFactory in Flins, France, which is a middle for recycling and different “round financial system” actions, and the ElectriCity group of vegetation in northern France, which can construct electrical autos, batteries and parts.
De los Mozos was named an Automotive Information Europe Eurostar in 2022.
Charvet, a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in France, joined Renault in 1993 as an engineer. He then held administration positions on the Flins manufacturing facility, in product administration and in engineering earlier than being named director of the Flins manufacturing facility in 2011. He was named director of business efficiency on the Renault-Nissan Alliance in 2014, and in 2017 grew to become director of business technique and engineering. He was named to his present place as head of high quality for Renault Group in November 2021.
De los Mozos, 60, joined Renault as an apprentice in 1978, then grew to become an engineer on the Valladolid, Spain, manufacturing facility. He held positions in engineering in France and at Spanish factories till 2003, when he was named director of Nissan Motor Iberia. He added different administration tasks within the area and in 2012 was named managing director of Renault Spain, a place he held till now. De los Mozos was then named to board-level management positions in manufacturing and logistics, and well being and security at Renault and the alliance. He was named to his present place on Jan. 1, 2021.
Recasens joined Renault in 2021 as director of technique and enterprise growth, after working at Volkswagen’s Spanish model Seat since 2002, together with underneath de Meo, who was model chief earlier than becoming a member of Renault in 2020.