Andreas Langbein
Owner
Experience
May 2019 - Apr 2023
4 yearsOwner
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
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