Dirk Korn
Senior Consultant
Experience
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
5 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant
Kunststoffwerk Neuteichnitz Baier GmbH
- Trouble Shooter BMW Regensburg
- Backlog monitoring of delivery performance
- Creating and tracking load control lists
- Monitoring loading in outgoing goods
- Reducing truck idle times
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
2 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant
Aluminium-Umformtechnik GmbH
- Conducting internal VDA 6.3 audits in P6
- Creating and tracking actions
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
1 monthGermany
Senior Consultant
Heuberg GmbH
- Potential analysis according to VDA 6.3
- Precision metal milling
Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
2 years 1 monthGermany
Senior Consultant
SAS Auto System Technik GmbH
- Trouble Shooter AUDI Sport GmbH
- Quality responsibility for cockpit assembly during ramp-up to series production
- De-escalation from escalation level 3 to level 0
- Ensuring delivery quality and reliability
- Interface function with customer and suppliers
- Complaint management
- Developing and implementing employee training
- Inventory responsibility for blocked stock in SAP
- Installation and coaching of shopfloor management
- Implementing and overseeing sorting and rework actions
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
7 monthsRomania
Senior Consultant
Autoliv Romania
- Trouble Shooter Daimler AG
- Reducing the current number of complaints
- Root cause analysis of complaints
- Securing delivery quantity and quality
- Installation and coaching in shopfloor management
- Optimizing incoming goods inspection with subsequent supplier development
- Setting up and establishing a communication structure
- Preparation for customer audits according to VDA 6.3 standard
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
9 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant
Valeo Siemens eAutotmotive Germany GmbH
- Trouble shooter for Daimler AG
- Support during the start-up of the prototype phase in the e-motor, transmission and inverter area
- Coordination of part tracking across plants
- Tracking project plans
- Creating and tracking LOP lists
- Installation and coaching of shop floor management
- Developing component maturity levels
- Monitoring and optimizing test procedures
- Optimizing interfaces for goods receipt and incoming inspection
- Establishing a communication structure
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
5 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant
EUROFOAM Deutschland GmbH
- Plant-wide coordination of relocating 45 customers with 375 parts to IATF 16949 standards
- Tracking the project plan for sample approvals
- Supporting customer audits for process approval based on VDA 6.3
- Coaching shop floor management
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
3 monthsRomania
Senior Consultant
QSW Quality Service S.R.L.
- Preparing customer audits for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
- Handling complaints using 8D reports
- Implementing sorting and rework actions for new customers according to VDA 6.3 standard
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
4 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter
LKH GmbH
- Trouble shooter for Audi AG
- Stabilizing processes for fiberglass components
- Coaching shop floor management
- Conducting process audits according to VDA 6.3
- Securing delivery quality and reliability
- Tracking initial sampling
- Establishing a communication structure
- Reducing delivery backlogs
- Optimizing outbound inspection
Dec 2017 - May 2018
6 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter
Endurance Amann GmbH
- Trouble shooter for Daimler AG
- Optimizing casting and machining processes
- Managing and communicating with suppliers
- Handling complaints and creating 8D reports
- Coordinating external quality gates
- Conducting process audits according to VDA 6.3
- Implementing and monitoring process stabilization measures
- Ensuring delivery quality
- Introducing and coaching shop floor management
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
8 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter
AMG GmbH
- Carbon component production
- Supplier qualification and process development
- Introduction of shopfloor management
- Installation of Q-Gates
- Process audits according to VDA 6.3
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
3 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant
TRW-Automotive
- Benchmark analysis and market research for outsourcing projects in manufacturing and assembly to Eastern Europe
- Strengths and weaknesses analysis with concept creation
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
2 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter
HILITE Europe GmbH
- Resident Engineer at AUDI AG in metal precision manufacturing for hydraulic valves
- Ensuring delivery performance
- Installation and monitoring of corrective actions
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
5 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter
Daimler AG
- Benchmark analysis for exterior markings according to VDA 6.3 standard across countries (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Malaysia, China)
- Strengths and weaknesses analysis using the turtle method
Jan 2016 - May 2016
5 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter
Daimler AG
- Trouble Shooter
- Installation and monitoring of Q-Gates for exterior markings
- Implementation of a logistics concept
- Supplier development
- Auditing according to VDA 6.3
- Definition and monitoring of improvement measures
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
4 monthsCzech Republic
Senior Consultant / Resident Engineer
IGW Transmission
- Resident Engineer in gearbox manufacturing
- Installation of firewall solutions
- Processing 8D reports with root cause analysis
- Installation and monitoring of corrective measures
Jan 2014 - Aug 2015
1 year 8 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Site Manager
Feintool System Parts
- Site management and setup of a contract finishing shop with 100% outgoing goods inspection for gearbox components
- Outsourcing project on a works contract basis
- Staff management (40 employees)
- Coordination of external quality inspections
- Creating 8D reports with action plans
May 2012 - Dec 2022
10 years 8 monthsRomania
Managing Director
QSW Quality Service S.R.L.
- Company setup in Eastern Europe (100 employees) for Ford OEM quality assurance
- Preparation of customer audits ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 14001 across Europe
- Resident engineering (body components, axles, windshields)
- Coordination of worldwide recall, sorting and rework actions with simultaneous project start at multiple sites
Jan 2011 - Apr 2012
1 year 4 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter
FTE Automotive
- Installation of Q-gates (CSL) for clutch components
- Creating feature catalogs
- Root cause analysis
- Reducing the ppm rate from 15,000 ppm to a sustainable 5 ppm
Nov 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year 2 monthsGermany
Executive Assistant
QSW Qualitäts Service
- Implementation of DIN EN ISO 9001 in preparation for certification
- Budget and cost center responsibility
Dec 2008 - Oct 2009
11 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant / Interim Production Management
WTA Wachsmuth
- Budget responsibility (100 employees)
- Process optimization and productivity improvement
Jan 1997 - Nov 2008
11 years 11 monthsGermany
Team Lead Mechanical Maintenance
Veritas AG
- Maintenance of extruders, gearboxes and plastic injection molding machines
Skills
Skills:
- Resident Engineering
- Run@rate
- Gage R&r
- Pdca
- 5s
- 5 Why
- Global 8d
- Kvp
- Lean Management
- Vda 6.3
- Vda 6.5
- Vda 16
- Iso/ts 16949
- Qvp
- Kaizen
- Quality Management
- Shopfloor Management
- Failure Cause Analysis
- Supplier Development
- Supplier Monitoring
- Installation Of Q-gates (Csl, Q-help, Esd) According To Vda 16
- Corporate Management
- Staff Management
- Ms Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
- Sap
Product Knowledge:
- Steering Wheels
- Carbon Components
- Transmissions (Passenger Car And Rail)
- Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic Components
- Aluminum Die-cast Components
- Line Systems
- Elastomer Seals
- Safety Components
- Airbag
- Seatbelt Pretensioners
- Seatbelt Height Adjusters
- Shift Linkages
- Shock Absorbers
- Bumpers
- Clutch Master Cylinders
- Transmission Components
- Charge Air Manifolds
- Interior
- Center Consoles
- Trunk Linings
- Tank Systems
- Airbag Modules
- Halogen Headlights
- Printed Circuit Boards
- Hydraulic Valves
- Instrument Panels
- Technical Foams For Seats
- Inverters
- Electric Motors
Process Knowledge:
- Brake And Clutch Line Systems
- Transmission Manufacturing
- Carbon Manufacturing
- Elastomer Extrusion
- Silicone
- 2k Injection Molding
- Rubber Hose Extrusion
- Plastic Hose Extrusion
- Rubber Profile Extrusion
- Plastic Injection Molding
- Hot Press Vulcanization Process
- Crimping
- Mechanical Machining
- Sheet Metal Processing
- Soldering
- Welding
- Turning
- Milling
- Drilling
- Stamping
- Metal Profile Production
- Surface Coating
- Lamination
- Cockpit Assembly
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
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Master Precision Mechanic
Certifications & licenses
VDA 6.3:2023 Process Auditor
DGQ – Quality Specialist
DVS-IIW Welding Specialist, Trainer (AEVO)
EOQ Quality Operator
Industrial Specialist for Control Technology
Certificate of Competence for Airbag and Seatbelt Pretensioner Systems
Certificate of Competence for Pyrotechnic Restraint Systems
VDA 16 Assessment of Decorative Surfaces
VDA 2 and PPAP - Specialist for Production Process and Product Approvals
VDA 6.5 Product Auditor
VDA Project Manager Maturity Level
VDA Field Failure Analysis
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