Dieter Emmert
Interim Manager Automotive | Plant Manager | Operations Manager
Experience
Jun 2020 - Present
4 years 9 monthsInterim Managing Director
Hanon Systems
Plant Plovdiv/Bulgaria
Fluid pressure systems (Pumps), 450 employees, 100 Mio EUR turnover
- Full Operational and Financial responsibility of the plant
- Direct reporting line to Business Unit Leader Electronic & Fluid Pressure
May 2019 - Mar 2020
11 months Pleven, Bulgaria
Interim Plant Manager
CPC
Pleven/Bulgaria
- Restructuring of a machine building company (Alu casting machines)
- 250 employees
- Restructuring
- Plant Layout
- Construction works
- Productivity increase
- 5S implementation
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
1 year 7 months Portugal
Resident Engineer
Toyoda Boshoku
- Overview of relocation process of Mini F57
- Ramp up and daily reporting to Toyoda Boshoku responsible in DEU
- Automotive interior (seat covers)
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 1 month Hungary
Interim Manager/Consultant
Schweitzer
- Wood and metal workshop Manager
- Leadership
- 5S
- Material flow optimization
- Responsibility for 60 employees (store construction)
- Personnel hiring activities
- Plant Padua (ITA) and HUN
- Plant/Layout optimization
- Material flow reorganization
- Stock reduction
- 5S activities
- LEAN principles
Aug 2017 - Present
7 years 7 monthsSelf employed
Emmert Operations EOOD
- Interim Management and Consulting
- Operations & Plant Optimization
- Restructuring
- Plant Layouts
- LEAN implementation
May 2010 - Apr 2017
7 years Bulgaria
General Manager
GRAMMER AG
Products: Seats for tractors and forklifts (Metal, Stamping, Welding, Powder coating, Foaming production and assembly), Seat covers: Sewing production
- Complete operational and financial responsibility for the Plant in Bulgaria (intercompany plant)
- Turnover 50 Mio EUR
- Workforce development +600 employees
- Total headcount responsibility: 1100 employees
- Financial and operational turnaround (2010-2012)
- Increase of Productivity from 65% to 90%
- Reduction of customer complaints by 80%
- LEAN implementation, LEAN thinking
- Continuous improvements inside the plant
- Ramp up of new products
- Initiation and supervision of construction works
- Strong focus on 5S and housekeeping (best practice plant)
- Successful customer and IATF ISO 16949 audits
- Continuous cost saving activities
Oct 2006 - Apr 2010
3 years 7 months Sibiu, Romania
Operations Manager / Plant Manager
HARTING Automotive GmbH & Co KG
Products: Solenoid systems, harnesses
- Complete operational responsibility for the plant in Sibiu
- Total headcount responsibility: 250 employees
- Workforce development + 100 employees
- Implementation of IATF:TS 16949 (first time certification)
- Excellent customer audit performance (A ratings by all customer)
- High customer satisfaction
- Ramp up of several new products and production line
- Implementation of ONE Piece-Flow
- Implementation of TPM
- Implementation of a self developed KPI system
- Monthly reporting to HQ in Espelkamp
Oct 2003 - Sep 2006
3 years Brașov, Romania
Plant Optimizing Engineer
DRÄXLMAIER - S. C. ROLEM S.R.L.
Product: Wooden trim parts for Automotive (Tier 1)
- Tier 1 Production plant with more than 4000 people
- Reporting to Plant Manager
- Optimization of Production and Plant processes
- Interims IE Manager
- Interims Production Manager for Sanding (1000 employees)
- Implementation of Quality circles and Stop scrap meetings
- Reduction of scrap by daily analysis and team meetings
- Development of new layout in final assembly department
Jul 1999 - Sep 2003
4 years 3 months Valencia, Spain
Senior Consultant
SCHULER business solutions AG
Restructuring, Layouts, Machine technology
Locations: Moscow / Russia (2,5 years), Valencia/ Spain (2,5 years)
- Development of General plant layouts at customers
- Detailed factory planning, Factory extensions, Reorganizations and realization
- Proposal and selection of new machine technology
- Capacity and Headcount planning for new plants
- Material flow planning, optimization and implementations
- Reduction of process times and optimization of through put times by new material flows or new technology
- Investment planning of future technology
- Proposal and integration of Production planning systems
- Cost optimizing concepts
- Interim Management
Oct 1996 - Jun 1999
2 years 9 monthsProject Engineer
Self-employed / HIB Rosenheim
- Production Manager for stair manufacturing plant (Kenngott); Headcount responsibility 150 employees (DEU)
- Shop Floor organization for a Store construction company in USA (3 months)
- Ramp up of chip board production plant Poland (3 months)
Summary
My mission: Operational driven hands-on Manager with more than 20 years of work experience in the Automotive industry in the position of General Manager, Plant Manager or Operations Manager. A pragmatic and result oriented leader, concentrating on continuous improvement, shop floor development, LEAN activities and Quality improvements. Countable and visual results, with a high focus on cost saving activities and financial improvements. He has excellent intercultural competences, with a high affinity to motivate and improve the plant organization. A Manager with a clear strategic plant vision, open minded, using common sense and a pragmatic style of resolving tasks and duties. He is person with an open ear for any topics and issues within all hierarchies, supporting constructive discussions with clearly defined results and inspiring people in searching for best solutions. Last but not least he encourages any plant member to grow professional and personal wise.
Key competences:
- Senior expert in Automotive industry for more than 20 years
- Interim Managing Director/ Plant Manager/ Operations Manager
- Restructuring, Turnaround, Process Optimization
- Factory /Layout Planning
- LEAN Manufacturing, KAIZEN and Continuous Improvement
- IATF ISO 16949
- Strong Leadership Skills
- Organizational development, team leader, team player
- Expert for East Europe ROM, BLG, CZ, HUN, Russia (approx. 20 years)
- Southern, Western Europe, Spain, Italy, Portugal (3 years)
- Intercontinental experience USA, China, UAE (0,5 years)
- Languages, German (mother language), English (negotiable), Spanish (conversation)
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate