Andreas Langbein

Owner

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, Germany Plant

Grupo Antolin

  • Preparing reports and management documents
  • Ensuring continuous quality improvement for the plant and leading staff in handling major quality issues or critical situations
  • Responsible for establishing, certifying, developing, and validating the quality and environmental management systems; coordinating quality goals and programs for the plant
  • Systematic use of quality tools and initiating escalation processes
  • Implementing quality improvement projects in coordination with central quality
  • Technical and disciplinary leadership and development of assigned team members
May 2016 - Mar 2018
1 year 11 months
Neustadt, Germany

Head of Quality, Germany

Federnfabrik Dietz GmbH

  • Product range: tension, compression, and leg springs by classic cold forming, clips, flat and shaped springs by stamping-bending and progressive-stamping
  • Leading the quality department with 15 staff
  • Reorganizing quality management, restructuring quality departments with production areas
  • Maintaining ISO/TS 16949:2009 organization and introducing IATF 16949:2016 based on DIN EN ISO 9001:2015
  • Responsible for introducing and upholding standards and common Q-tools like QRQC, PDCA, FTA, KVP, etc.
  • Planning and conducting internal audits
  • Organizing and promoting communication between quality and production departments
  • Reviewing contracts with management
Aug 2014 - Apr 2016
1 year 9 months
Munich, Germany

QMT Purchasing Network (Driving Dynamics) (Temporary)

BMW

  • Quality management for parts: responsible for quality-related supplier management in wheels/tires commodity
  • Active supplier selection in awarding process through nomination and subsequent supplier development
  • Identifying risks and critical delivery scopes, agreeing on measures to secure them in the product development process
  • Enabling series suppliers to ensure quality parts supply during industrialization to SOP
  • Conducting and approving series processes at suppliers
  • Assessing performance and part quality at partners and escalating deviations
  • Monitoring series quality from suppliers until end of production
  • Quality analysis and evaluations across projects within the commodity
  • Securing prototype part specifications at Plant 0
  • Responsible for a body module across all derivatives
  • Identifying risks and critical delivery scopes, agreeing on measures to secure them in the product development process
Feb 2013 - Jul 2014
1 year 6 months
Germany

Independent Project Manager / Consultant for Vehicle & Motorsport Projects

  • Project, budget, and schedule planning for new builds or changes to existing vehicles, and monitoring planned changes
  • Responsible for managing service delivery across all process chains
  • Self-manufacturing of turned and milled parts
  • Producing CFRP aerodynamic and trim parts
  • Conducting and overseeing 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 management in projects and series
  • Setting up new and improving existing suppliers
  • Conducting initial and follow-up audits with purchasing and industrialization
  • Tracking complaints
  • Defining and monitoring corrective actions at suppliers
  • Creating and optimizing specifications and test procedures
  • Reviewing feasibility studies and contributing to FMEAs
Oct 2004 - Oct 2011
7 years 1 month
Bad Rodach, Germany

Project Quality Engineer for Development Projects

Valeo Klimasysteme GmbH

  • Quality planning for all BMW projects
  • Preparing quality target agreements and steering to meet goals
  • Planning and controlling quality activities during projects
  • Planning and controlling measures to meet quality goals
  • Planning and steering preventive quality work and method support
  • Planning and controlling use of quality methods and tools across projects
  • Planning and controlling all quality activities
  • Creating, handling, and executing change requests (change management)
  • Supporting project team as moderator using tools like FMEAs, QRQC, PDCA, FTA, 5Why
  • Coordinating first sample approvals with customers
  • Initiating corrective actions throughout project phases (from prototype to series start-up)
  • Supporting our sister plant in Mexico as Quality Consultant (10/2006–07/2008). Focus: injection molding and assembly processes, quality management, customer communication, management consulting
Sep 2003 - Sep 2004
1 year 1 month
Ummerstadt, Germany

Quality Management Representative

Mono Holzdesign

  • Products: hardwood and carbon trim parts for the automotive industry
  • Setting up quality system to ISO 9001 and conducting initial certification
  • Initiating cross-functional documentation, creating work instructions and test reports
  • Ensuring series quality from planning to shipping
  • Managing customer relations, handling complaints, and overseeing immediate actions
  • Coordinating first sample approvals with customers
  • Functional supervisor of a Q-team with 5 members
Aug 2001 - Dec 2003
1 year 5 months
Bad Rodach, Germany

Project Quality Engineer for Development Projects

Valeo Klimasysteme GmbH

  • Quality planning for BMW (R50/53) and Volvo (P28) projects
  • Creating validation, control, and test plans
  • Supporting project team as moderator using tools like FMEAs, PDCA, FTA, 5Why
  • Coordinating first sample approvals with customers
  • Initiating corrective actions throughout project phases (from prototype to series start-up)
Mar 1994 - Jul 2001
7 years 5 months
Germany

Test Mechanic in Development Lab

  • Building test rigs and designing measurement setups for validating new products
  • Evaluating optimization measures on prototypes and analyzing data
  • Vehicle modifications (new tech e.g. R744 cooling circuit)
  • Noise testing on complete vehicles and components
  • System and validation tests in electrical/electronic component test lab

Summary

  • Professional experience at BMW Group & Valeo GmbH
  • Professional experience in quality management
  • Professional experience in stamping & forming technology
  • Professional experience in plastic processing, metal and electrical industries
  • Professional experience abroad
  • Professional experience in interior / surfaces
  • Many years of leadership experience

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Jul 2000 - Sep 2004

SBBS Sonneberg

State-Certified Technician · Electrical Engineering · Germany

Certifications & licenses

1st Party Auditor IATF 16949:2016

IATF

2nd Party Auditor IATF 16949:2016

IATF

First Aid and Fire Safety Training

Basics of Refrigeration Technology Course A

Lead Auditor ISO 9001:2015

ISO

Process Auditor VDA 6.3

VDA