Andreas L. - Owner

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Bad Rodach, Germany

Experience

May 2019 - Apr 2023

4 years

Owner

LLPcon Unternehmensberatung / Consulting – Automotive

Consulting
Interim management
Quality management
Project management
Sales
Auditing / certification

Apr 2018 - Oct 2018

7 months

Bamberg, Germany

Quality Manager, German Plant

Grupo Antolin

Preparing reports and management documents.
Ensuring a continuous quality improvement process for the plant and leading employees in handling serious quality issues or critical quality situations.
Responsible for establishing, certifying, developing, and validating the quality and environmental management systems, and for aligning and coordinating quality goals and programs for the plant.
Systematic use of quality tools and initiation of the escalation process.
Implementing quality improvement projects in coordination with central quality.
Professional and disciplinary leadership and development of all assigned employees.

May 2016 - Mar 2018

1 year 11 months

Neustadt, Germany

Head of Quality Operations Germany

Federnfabrik Dietz GmbH

Product portfolio: tension, compression, and leaf springs made by classic coil winding (cold forming), clips, as well as flat and shaped springs using stamping-bending and progressive combined processes.
Managing the quality department with 15 employees.
Reorganizing quality management, restructuring the quality departments in collaboration with production areas.
Maintaining the organization according to ISO/TS 16949:2009 and implementing the new IATF 16949:2016 based on DIN EN ISO 9001:2015.
Responsible for introducing and maintaining standards and common Q-tools such as QRQC, PDCA, FTA, KVP, etc.
Planning and conducting internal audits.
Organizing and promoting communication between quality departments and production.
Reviewing contracts in collaboration with senior management.

Aug 2014 - Apr 2016

1 year 9 months

Munich, Germany

QMT Purchasing Network (Vehicle Dynamics) (Contract)

BMW

Parts quality management: responsible for supplier quality management in the Wheels/Tires commodity.
Actively selecting suppliers during the awarding process up to nomination, followed by supplier development.
Identifying risks and critical supply scopes, agreeing on measures to secure these scopes in the project engineering process (PEP).
Enabling series suppliers to ensure quality parts supply during the industrialization build phase up to SOP.
Executing and approving process series at the supplier.
Evaluating performance and part quality with process partners and escalating the evaluation in case of deviations.
Monitoring suppliers' series quality up to EOP.
Conducting quality analyses and evaluations across projects within the commodity.
Securing specifications of prototype parts from Plant 0.
Responsibility for a body module across all derivatives.
Identifying risks and critical supply scopes, agreeing on measures to secure these scopes in the PEP.

Feb 2013 - Jul 2014

1 year 6 months

Germany

Independent Project Manager / Consultant for Vehicle / Motorsport Projects

Planning projects, budgets, and schedules for new builds or modifications to existing vehicles and overseeing the planned changes.
Responsible for managing service delivery across all process chains.
Manufacturing turned and milled parts in-house.
Producing carbon fiber (CFRP) aerodynamic add-on parts and body panels.
Performing and supervising test and bench runs.

Nov 2011 - Jan 2013

1 year 3 months

Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Supplier Quality Manager

IWC / International Watch Co. Schaffhausen Branch of Richemont International SA

Supplier development and supplier management for projects and series production.
Building new and improving existing suppliers.
Conducting initial and follow-up audits in collaboration with procurement and industrialization.
Tracking complaints.
Setting and monitoring improvement measures at suppliers.
Creating and optimizing specifications and testing procedures.
Reviewing feasibility analyses and participating in FMEA.

Oct 2004 - Oct 2011

7 years 1 month

Bad Rodach, Germany

Project Quality Engineer for Development Projects

Fa. Valeo Klimasysteme GmbH

Quality planning for all BMW projects.
Preparing the quality target agreements for projects and managing to achieve the agreed quality goals.
Planning and controlling quality activities in ongoing projects.
Planning and managing measures required to achieve quality objectives.
Planning and controlling preventive quality work and methodological support.
Planning and controlling the project-wide use of quality methods and tools.
Planning and controlling all quality activities.
Creating, processing, and executing change requests (change management).
Supporting the project team as a moderator in using tools like FMEA, QRQC, PDCA, FTA, 5 Whys.
Coordinating initial sample submissions to the customer.
Initiating corrective actions throughout all project phases (from prototype to series launch).
Supporting our sister plant in Mexico as a Quality Consultant (period: 10/2006 to 07/2008). Focus areas: injection molding and assembly processes, quality management, customer communication, management consulting.

Sep 2003 - Sep 2004

1 year 1 month

Ummerstadt, Germany

QMB (Quality Management Representative)

Fa. Mono Holzdesign

Products: fine wood and carbon trim parts for the automotive industry.
Developing the quality system according to ISO 9001 and achieving the initial certification.
Initiating cross-functional documentation, creating work instructions and inspection reports.
Ensuring series quality from work preparation to shipping.
Managing our customers, tracking complaints, and monitoring immediate corrective actions.
Coordinating first samples to the customer.
Functional supervisor of the quality team with 5 employees.

Aug 2001 - Dec 2002

1 year 5 months

Bad Rodach, Germany

Project Quality Engineer for Development Projects

Fa. Valeo Klimasysteme GmbH

Quality planning for BMW (R50/53) and Volvo (P28) projects.
Creating validation, control, and test plans.
Supporting the project team as a moderator in using tools like FMEA, PDCA, FTA, 5 Whys.
Coordinating initial sample submissions to the customer.
Initiating corrective actions throughout all project phases (from prototype to series launch).

Mar 1994 - Jul 2001

7 years 5 months

Germany

Test Mechanic in the Development Lab

Setting up test benches and designing measurement setups for validating new products.
Evaluating optimization measures on prototypes and analyzing the measurements.
Vehicle conversions (new technologies, e.g., R744 refrigeration circuit).
Noise testing on whole vehicles and components.
System and validation tests in the test lab for electrical/electronic components.