Christian Stähle

Production Manager Mechanical Engineering

Konstanz, Germany

Experience

Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
8 months

Production Manager Mechanical Engineering

Medium-Sized Company

Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
10 months

Development 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 months

CRO, 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 months

Sales

Automotive Supplier

  • Competence analysis and identification of USPs
  • Definition of new industries and target groups
  • Sales training
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
7 months

Automotive 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 months

Supplier 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 months

Ramp-Up Management

Automotive Supplier

  • Responsible for production planning and control
  • Increase of production efficiency and organizational development
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
4 months

CTO, 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 months

Production Optimization

Motorsport Supplier

  • Reduction of throughput times
  • Improvement of planning for raw part supply and machine utilization
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
7 months

Production Optimization

Automotive Supplier

  • Improvement of OEE
  • Reduction of scrap
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
6 months

Product 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 months

Head 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 months

Head 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 months

Production 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 month

Head 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 months

Head 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 months

Sabbatical

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 2001
1 year 1 month

Management 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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