Background

More than 25 Jahre professional experience in managing operations (project manager, head of productions, plant manager, COO, MD). Self-employed for 3 years. Industry knowledge: Mechanical and plant engineering, automotive industry as Tier 2 supplier. Main focus: Process improvements, change management, turn around, ERP system issues.

Professional Experience

• Study of electrical engineering
• Doctorate in image processing
• Project engineer
• Project manager SAP-R2 (Mat)
• Production manager
• Business unit manager production and materials management
• Plant manager
• COO, managing director
• Interim manager & consultant  since 2014

Focus Areas

• Metalworking, rubberizing, forming, mechatronics, graphite, injection molding, surfaces, specialty alloys, steel casting, melting and casting furnaces.
• Process improvement: (efficiency. on time delivery, liquidity, inventory reduction, administrative costs))
• Master data management
• Leadership tasks, restructuring, change management
• Methods (Six Sigma Black Belt, value stream mapping, numberbased analysis)

Reference Projects

• Plant Manager: 20% automotive business, change management, on time delivery, scrap reduction, process improvements - Success Story PDF
• COO: restructuring, change management - Success Story PDF
• Project manager: introduction of rule-based process engineering, qualification of an additional foreign production site - Success Story PDF