Ralf Zimmer

Ralf Zimmer is Vice President of Operations, Auto and Commercial, of National Molding. Ralf’s main responsibility is to drive operational excellence in the Auto and Commercial divisions as well as lead the teams through tactical execution of strategy. Ralf also has General Manager responsibilities for the NMC Dynaplas plant in Toronto.

Prior to joining the NMC team, Ralf was the Vice President and General Manager for Array Marketing leading the custom merchandising display operation out of two locations. Prior to Array, Ralf was the Director of Canadian Operations for Napoleon, where he had responsibility for three manufacturing divisions. He also spent some time in the electronics recycling and ITAD industry as General Manager for Geep’s largest global plant.

Ralf’s auto experience is extensive; he was Plant Manager of Faurecia’s only Canadian seating plant where he was responsible for two separate business units and implementing the Faurecia Excellence System. Prior to that, he spent twenty-five plus years with Magna International, where he held leadership positions of General Manager of multi sites, Assistant General Manager, and Engineering Manager. During his time at Magna, Ralf built a very diversified lean operations and business portfolio in multiple processes including injection molding, mold making, stamping, welding, chrome plating, anodizing, painting, roll forming, as well as many automated and manual assembly operations out of several divisions. Ralf led his teams to winning multiple customer awards in quality, delivery, launch performance, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Ralf is a certified tool and die maker by trade and has served on the board for the Canadian Deafblind Association.