Background of experience

More than 30 years experience as General Manager in manufacturing companies / plant manager / production and operations manager and consultant in large and medium-sized enterprises in the metal producing and processing industry (ThyssenKrupp Automotive, Georg Fischer, Bosch, TRW, BPW, Tower Automotive, Putzmeister / SANY , Mühlhoff Forming, ...)Freelancer as an interim manager and consultant since 2007

Career

• Self employed, interim manager and consultant, more than 10 mandates & projects since 2007
• CEO of a medium-sized steelmaker (forging, casting, centrifugal casting)
• CEO of a pressuredie-cast manufacturer
• CEO of a manufacturer for precision forged gear parts
• CEO of a vehicle construction sub-supplier
• Plant and Production Manager, Hot Forging
• Director for Quality Management
• Dr.-Ing Degree/Dissertation, research assistant at RWTH Aachen/Germany
• Dipl.-Ing. Degree in Ferrous Metallurgy from RWTH Aachen/Germany
  

Core competence area

• Key sectors are metal producing and metal-working industry, sub-supplier for automotive
• Restructuring and process optimization
• Efficiency and performance improvement
  (REFA, Six Sigma, CIP, Kaizen)
• Material management to optimize material use (material- and material use efficiency)
• Outsourcing and insourcing
• Consulting and project management
• Process know-how in the fields of metallurgy, metal forming, materials technology, heat treatment, mechanical machining, assembly and automation

Selected case studies

• Interim production manager with a manufacturer of automotive synchronous transmission gears (TIER1 supplier)
• Managing Director with a aluminum die casting manufacturer (TIER1 supplier)
• Consultant (purchasing, engineering)? with a TIER1 supplier of passenger safety systems (seat belts, airbags, ...)