Renovation of Own Properties

• Responsible planning and execution of renovation projects for multiple residential properties
• Coordination of trades
• Budget and schedule control
• Site management and material procurement
• Quality control
• Experience in interior finishing, building services, and outdoor facilities
• Compliance with construction and energy standards

Consulting in project management / interim project manager "System Relocation from Stutensee to Eschbach"

• Leading and coordinating the project team, planning work packages and schedules
• Defining project deliverables
• Monitoring project progress
• Regular reporting
• Ensuring adherence to the defined schedule and cost framework of the project

Project: Interim Acquisition Lead for the AMG Rear Seat Project (Daimler) and consulting on "Optimizing Project Management – Overall Project Management" Team composition: Sales, Development, Industrialization, Quality, Production, Controlling, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, IT, Program Management

• Leading the cross-departmental acquisition project
• Responsible for cross-departmental project control in terms of schedule, technology, cost, and quality
• Responsible for delivering the agreed project results at the respective acquisition milestones (ISRI/end customer)
• Responsible for the holistic coordination of project work across all phases of acquisition
• Creation of a detailed project plan (aligning ISRI gates with the customer's schedule)
• Development and coordination of project schedules and budget planning with departments, suppliers, and customers
• Continuous project monitoring and conducting plan vs. actual analyses
• Definition, implementation, and monitoring of measures in case of deviations (schedule, technology, cost, quality), coordinating and tracking action plans
• Regular involvement in revising the project business case
• Regular project reporting and tracking
• Regular project meetings with sub-project leaders of the departments
• Regular project meetings with the client
• Regular creation of client reports
• Participation in client meetings as part of the role
• Conducting, tracking, and implementing change management

Projects: Doorlock (automatic door unlocking); automatic door opening, humidity sensor, Biofresh Plus, light module in the door, remote control radio, relay module Team composition per project: systems, hardware, software, integration, components, testing, procurement, quality, mechanical and product management as needed

• Leadership, control and supervision of the project team: conducting regular project meetings and documenting them in Confluence
• MS project plans: creation/update of the project plan and coordination within the team
• Participation in preparation and approval/release of requirements specification/functions specification
• Participation in component cost calculation
• Conducting risk management in the project: identifying project risks and defining mitigation measures, deciding on priorities
• Project budget controlling
• Creation of project reports for management
• Internal consulting/support in setting up project management

Results:

• Creation of MS project plan per project up to SOP
• Leading the project up to the B-sample phase

Manufacturing of individual components with leather and textile surfaces, up to delivery of complete systems (center console, arm rests, storage compartment, headliner, sun visors, grab handles, interior mirror, door trim, sill trim, rear shelf, luggage compartment cover, seat covers, console, headrests, instrument panel, trim strips, steering wheel rim, steering column, gear lever, handbrake lever, navigation trim) Selected clients: Audi, Bentley, BMW, Daimler, EvoBus, Lamborghini, Porsche, Rolls Royce, Volkswagen, Dräxlmaier, Faurecia, SMP, AIS

Interim: Deputy Department Head Data Organization (3 employees) Coordination of ERP (SAP), IT information systems, standards/consulting for routings/BOMs, standards/consulting for materials management

Interim Project Manager in Work Preparation (approx. 8-15 employees per project and task)

• Training project managers on creating bills of materials
• Analyzing processes and creating specialist concepts for SAP
• Participation in/creation of standards, guidelines and methods; technical input for creating technical BOMs, machine hourly rates, workstations, work instructions, input data for calculating manufacturing costs, creation of training materials
• Performing calculations via SAP
• Collaboration with industrial engineering, purchasing, production, sales, controlling, warehouse departments
• Reviewing and creating BOMs, plan groups/work instructions, production versions in SAP
• Project-/client-specific analyses: Materials Management MM, Production Planning PP, Sales SD, Controlling CO, Industrial Solutions IS (EDI, Idoc, EMJIT, JITM, EMFOR)

Completed projects Lamborghini LB636 door trim and pillar trim / LB636 seat trims / LB636 backrest cover / CT Porsche grab handle, air outlets, louvers, sill trim / AU536 fascias / Porsche PO992 rollover protection / Bentley BY635 front header and tonneau cover

Special tasks:

• Inventory support for audits / storage location organization / SAP target concept: optimization of warehouse management
• Inventory bookings Project management after insolvency/company sale: planning from signing to closing: conversion/restart of Schäfer-Oesterle GmbH to a new legal entity
• Deputy overall project manager

Production optimization

• \tRecording and analysis of current state: time studies following REFA method, actual standard times, workflows, workstations, work instructions, work plans, comparison of standard times according to work plan / time study
• \tCreation of target concept and recommendations for the examined products/production processes. Result of optimization: reduction of standard time by about 10%.

Selected products, processes

• \tSetup: removal, storage, feeder setup, setup at the line (SMD placement machines)
• \tSingle workstation: setup and teardown of placement table, placing modules, preparing orders, gluing absorbers, pre-tinning, assembly, soldering, SQC inspection, electrical testing, reporting and delivering, printing labels
• \tMotorola: pre-assembly of antenna, RF board and cover plate, assembly, function tests, ready for shipment

Upholstery of seat covers, pillars and door panels, armrests, headliner, headrests, bellows, parcel shelves, sun visors, upholstery of leather steering wheels

Production optimization

• \tRecording and analysis of current state: time studies following REFA method, organization, workflows, line balancing / takt times, workstations, work instructions, work plans, material, product, plant layout, area layout …
• \tIdentification of optimization potentials in work processes
• \tCreation of target concept and recommendations for the examined scopes, as well as recommendations for job descriptions, training plans, organization. Introduction/training of central industrial engineering staff in methods for optimization/analysis. Result of optimizations: area reduction of about 35%, standard time reduction of about 15%, and material savings.

Selected products, processes E63 pull handle, E63 door trim, E88 transport bag, Nissan lead console, Comag gluing robot

• \tManagement of about 25 project managers in training and about 15 project managers Pre-development budget about €5 million.
• \tPlanning and control of pre-development projects 2007/2008 Support for project managers in project descriptions, capacity, scheduling and budget planning, target field contributions / utility value metric, comparison calculations. Input of projects into the database, summary of all project data for decision-making.
• \tComparison calculations for in-house vs. external production and evaluations of interior parts (seat, cockpit, door panel, center console, glove box), creation of evaluation matrix
• \tBenchmarking of interior parts (seat, cockpit, door panel)
• \tCreation of presentations for committees/project steering group
• \tSupport services for idea team: idea generation / consolidation / networking / prioritization / evaluation, steering into pre-development
• \tScenarios / calculation of plant capacity and flexibility
• \tImplementation of WPS value-driven production system (CIP, Kaizen, 5S) in the office

Project: Consulting and support services in quality management:

• Creation of an action plan (guide for qualification and validation)
• Coaching and support of the project from development to series handover
• Compilation and summary of results after each milestone, as well as presentation to responsible managers
• Process and test plan for qualification of equipment and processes
• Test preparation, test coaching, statistical process control (SPC): process capability (cpk) and machine capability studies (cmk)
• Analysis of results and proposals for actions

Result: Shortened development time, documentation structure based on QM methods, creation of standard template documents (MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel templates) for current and future projects. Creation of a menu-driven validation manual on CD-ROM

Selected products and processes: Door trim with PU skin casting system, development of product and process.

• Internal department organization: creating guidelines for data collection and analysis, procedures and work instructions, interface matrix, responsibility matrix, flow and training plans for industrial engineering staff (headquarters / foreign plants), as well as preparing for certifications according to VDA Volume 6.2 and budget planning
• Project manager for entire process chain and assembly in major projects
• Planning, introduction, and support of new production technologies
• Planning, maintenance, and optimization of the machine base at foreign plants
• Conducting analyses (production, logistics), economic feasibility calculations
• Packaging guidelines for domestic and international transport
• Processing and evaluating production-related improvement proposals
• Creation of work instructions / process standards for production at domestic and foreign plants
• Estimating times for operations using "comparison and estimation" and MTM methods, conducting time studies according to REFA, creating standard time values, maintaining customer-specific standard time catalog, and training catalog users

Teaching in business administration, economics and social studies, professional math, building physics, metal technology, technical drawing, and electrical engineering

• Press and stamping work

• Machining, maintenance and quality monitoring