Christian Stähle
Production Manager Mechanical Engineering
Experience
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
8 monthsProduction Manager Mechanical Engineering
Medium-Sized Company
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
10 monthsDevelopment Project Manager
Tier 1 Automotive Supplier
- Management of development, testing, prototype construction, quality and production planning
- Responsibility for deadlines, budget, quality and quantities
Apr 2023 - Jul 2023
4 monthsCRO, CTO
Medium-Sized Company
- Restructuring a medium-sized manufacturing company with customers in automotive, medical technology and mechanical engineering
- Organizational development, cost cutting, change-management, shop-floor-management
- Quality optimization
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 6 monthsSales
Automotive Supplier
- Competence analysis and identification of USPs
- Definition of new industries and target groups
- Sales training
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
7 monthsAutomotive Ramp-Up Management Project Manager
Automotive Industry
- Responsibility for deadlines, budget, quality and quantities
- Supplier-side production planning to ensure delivery capability
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
1 year 9 monthsSupplier Quality
E-Bike Drive Supplier
- Stabilization of the supply chain regarding production planning, delivery reliability, quality and output
- Tolerance planning and management
- Creation of measurement and clamping concepts
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
8 monthsRamp-Up Management
Automotive Supplier
- Responsible for production planning and control
- Increase of production efficiency and organizational development
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
4 monthsCTO, Technical Director
Medium-Sized Company
- Responsibility for production, production control, development, planning and technical purchasing
- Reduction of parts variety through modularization
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
2 monthsProduction Optimization
Motorsport Supplier
- Reduction of throughput times
- Improvement of planning for raw part supply and machine utilization
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
7 monthsProduction Optimization
Automotive Supplier
- Improvement of OEE
- Reduction of scrap
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
6 monthsProduct Development and Ramp-Up Management Project Manager
Automotive Supplier
- Management of product development and ramp-up management for Daimler
Dec 2014 - May 2016
1 year 6 monthsHead of Development
Automotive Supplier
- Leading a team in the development of a steering column for Audi
- Planning and control of design, production and testing
Feb 2014 - Nov 2014
10 monthsHead of Design
Automotive Supplier
- Further development of torsional vibration couplings
- Cost savings, scrap reduction, improvement of delivery reliability and quality
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
2 monthsProduction Planning
Automotive Supplier
- Budget planning, sales planning and profit planning
Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
7 months Brazil
CRO
Brazilian Subsidiary of a German Medium-Sized Company
- Analysis of product costs and margins and review of sales and profit development
- Identification of loss-making products and definition of cost-saving measures
- Organizational development and preparation for site relocation
Feb 2012 - Feb 2013
1 year 1 month Germany
CRO, CTO
Energy Technology Company
- Restructuring of a medium-sized company
- Production control, design management, production management and planning
- Technical purchasing and technical sales
- Cost reduction through product modularization
Oct 2011 - Dec 2011
3 months Russian Federation
Cost Cutting
Automotive Supplier
- Analysis of deviations between planned and actual costs
- Identification of loss-making areas and definition of cost reduction measures
Jul 2011 - Sep 2011
3 months Germany
Shop-Floor Management
Automotive Supplier
- Process capability of a new forging line in the forging process
- Quality optimization, process development and cost reduction
Feb 2010 - Jun 2011
1 year 5 months Germany
Quality Manager
Vulkan
- Management of quality assurance and customer communication
- Tolerance planning to reduce scrap and rework
- Process auditing, budget and investment planning
Mar 2009 - Dec 2009
10 months Germany
CRO
Plastic Injection Molding Supplier
- Preparation of a restructuring report
- Definition, implementation and monitoring of reorganization and rationalization measures
- Liquidity, sales and profit planning
May 2008 - Feb 2009
10 months Germany
Head of Work Management
Mercedes-Benz
- Standardization of work management processes
- Identification of best-practice solutions and rollout of defined processes and KPIs
Nov 2007 - May 2008
7 months Germany
Head of Program Management for Vehicle New Development Electrical/Electronics
Volkswagen
- Development and networking of vehicle electronics
- Schedule and maturity level controlling and renegotiation with external service providers
Oct 2006 - Oct 2007
1 year 1 monthHead of Control Unit Development
Automotive Supplier
- Project monitoring of a development project
- Definition and control of KPIs
- Schedule control and reporting to the customer
Mar 2006 - Sep 2006
7 months Germany
Change Management Electrical/Electronics Development
Volkswagen
- Adaptation of development processes to a new organizational structure
- Improvement of process stability while shortening development time
Jul 2005 - Feb 2006
8 months Germany
Supplier Development
Volkswagen
- Project monitoring of a development project in the automotive supplier sector
- Schedule and maturity level controlling
- Reorganization of project work and efficiency improvement
Nov 2004 - May 2005
7 monthsHead of Development Ramp-Up Management
Nokia
- Product and production release including preparatory maturity improvements
- Definition of KPIs and their controlling
- Introduction of lessons learned, schedule control and improvement of customer communication
May 2004 - Oct 2004
6 months Switzerland
Innovation Management
Migros/Agentrics
- Development of an innovation process for retail trade
- Implementation in supporting software
- Project management in an international environment
Oct 2003 - Aug 2004
11 monthsSabbatical
Self-Employed
- Trip from Cologne to Cape Town through the Middle East and Africa
Jan 2002 - Aug 2003
1 year 8 months Germany
Supply Chain Delivery Lead
Covisint
- Responsibility for all European projects in supply chain
- Leadership of up to 30 employees
- Redesign and optimization of customer logistics processes
- Acquisition, sales, quotation calculation and negotiation
- Implementation of web-based tools to support the logistics chain
- Budget planning, controlling and measurement of savings
- Key account management with OEMs and suppliers
Dec 2000 - Dec 2002
1 year 1 monthManagement Consultant
Accenture
- Identifying best practices for pricing and distribution systems at transport service providers
- Development of new sales and pricing systems
- Proposals, sales and market research
- Supply chain management optimization
- International project management across multiple locations
Jan 1996 - Dec 2000
5 years Germany
Process Development
DaimlerChrysler AG
- Development and implementation of strategic and innovative concepts at the interface between research, development and design
- Tolerance planning and process stabilization through statistical tolerance simulation
- Redesign of development processes for the S-Class Coupé
- Responsibility for new materials, joining technologies, corrosion protection and risk assessment
Nov 1994 - Dec 1995
1 year 2 months Germany
Participant International Leadership Development Group
Mercedes-Benz AG
- Three projects in Germany and abroad (each four months)
- Personality-building seminars
- Projects: logistics optimization (Kassel plant), factory planning (Indonesia), globalization strategy (Stuttgart)
Summary
With over 20 years of experience as an executive and project manager in a technical environment, I take on leadership roles in production, development, quality or logistics. As a technical director, COO or CTO I temporarily bridge short-term gaps in your management team and ensure your team stays on course and your value chain remains stable.
I support you as a project manager who safely brings complex development and ramp-up projects to completion.
Key areas:
- Interim Managing Director / Operations Management
- CTO/CPO/CRO
- Plant Manager
- Quality Manager
- Head of Development
- Restructuring
- Change Management
- Automotive Ramp-Up Management
- Supplier Management
- Cost Cutting
- Leadership in Production, Development, Quality and Logistics
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Intermediate
Education
Oct 1993 - Jun 1994
Ecole Superieure De Physique
Diploma Project, Fibre Optic Based Thermometer · Physics · Strasbourg, France
Oct 1985 - Jun 1986
Boarding School
Oxford/Cambridge Mathematics A-Level · Mathematics · Abingdon, United Kingdom
TH Karlsruhe
Mechanical Engineer · Mechanical Engineering · Karlsruhe, Germany
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