Gratuated Engineer Volker Herrmann

Background of experience
Interim manager and consultant to the medium-sized automotive supply industry with more than 25 years of operational and strategic management experience, including as CEO, COO, CTO, certified expert in corporate restructuring and reorganization
Professional stations
- study of plastics/ rubber and production engineering
- product developer for dynamic plastics/ rubber assemblies
- head of application technologies plastic processing methods
- production manager and manger industrialization
- technical director: product developement, project management, industrialization
- plant manager (interim manager)
- C-level manager, CEO, CTO, COO, Germany, Eastern Europe
- expert for operational restructuring/reorganization
- independent consultant, interim manage
Focus in the area of:
- automotive & supplier industries manufacturing companies tool- & mechanical engineering
- turnaround management
- operational restructuring, conception, implementation (IDWS6, StaRUG, CRO)
- rationalization, efficiency- and performance enhancement process optimization (lean management, TPS, six sigma black belt)
- plant and, production management, industrialization, CTO, COO, CEO transition, tranformation
Selected refernce projects:
- interim COO, plant manager Eastern Europe: task force management, automotive supplier - Success Story PDF
- operational restructuring turnaround management (CRO), Germany, Eastern Europe (private equity) - Success Story PDF
- interim management automotive supplier, industrialization, production implementation at site in Austria - Success Story PDF
- task force management new factory building (greenfield), plant relocation, product relocation, Eastern Europe, automotive supplier