Dirk K.

Senior Consultant

Jossgrund, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
5 months
Germany

Senior Consultant

Kunststoffwerk Neuteichnitz Baier GmbH

  • Trouble shooter for BMW Regensburg.
  • Monitoring backlogs for delivery performance.
  • Creating and tracking loading control lists.
  • Overseeing shipments in outgoing goods.
  • Reducing truck idle times.
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
2 months
Germany

Senior Consultant

Aluminium-Umformtechnik GmbH

  • Conducting internal VDA 6.3 audits in P6.
  • Creating and tracking action items.
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
1 month
Germany

Senior Consultant

Heuberg GmbH

Potential analysis according to VDA 6.3 / precision metal milling.

Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
2 years 1 month
Germany

Senior Consultant

SAS Auto System Technik GmbH

  • Trouble shooter for AUDI Sport GmbH.
  • Quality responsibility for cockpit assembly during ramp-up to series production.
  • De-escalation from escalation level 3 to level 0.
  • Securing delivery quality and on-time delivery.
  • Acting as interface to customer and suppliers.
  • Complaint management.
  • Creating and implementing employee training.
  • Inventory responsibility for blocked stock in SAP.
  • Installation and coaching shopfloor management.
  • Installing and supervising sorting and rework actions.
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
7 months
Romania

Senior Consultant

Autoliv Romania

  • Trouble shooter for Daimler AG.
  • Reducing the current number of complaints.
  • Root cause analysis of complaints.
  • Securing delivery volume and quality.
  • Installation and coaching shopfloor management.
  • Optimizing incoming goods inspection with follow-up supplier development.
  • Setting up and establishing a communication structure.
  • Preparing for customer audits according to VDA 6.3 standard.
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
9 months
Germany

Senior Consultant

Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH

  • Trouble shooter for Daimler AG.
  • Support during the pilot phase start-up in the areas of e-motor, gearbox and inverter.
  • Coordination of part tracking across plants.
  • Tracking project schedules.
  • Creating and tracking LOP lists.
  • Installation and coaching shopfloor management.
  • Maturity development of components.
  • Monitoring and optimizing test procedures.
  • Optimizing interfaces for incoming goods and inspection.
  • Building a communication structure.
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
5 months
Germany

Senior Consultant

Eurofoam Deutschland GmbH

  • Coordinating the transfer of 45 customers with 375 components across plants according to IATF 16949 standards.
  • Tracking the project plan regarding sample approvals.
  • Supporting customer audits for process approval based on VDA 6.3.
  • Coaching shopfloor management.
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
3 months
Romania

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 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter

LKH GmbH

  • Trouble shooter for AUDI AG.
  • Stabilizing processes for fiberglass components.
  • Coaching shopfloor management.
  • Process audits according to VDA 6.3.
  • Securing delivery quality and on-time delivery.
  • Tracking initial sampling.
  • Building a communication structure.
  • Reducing delivery backlogs.
  • Optimizing outgoing goods inspection.
Dec 2017 - May 2018
6 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter

Endurance Amann GmbH

  • Trouble shooter for Daimler AG.
  • Optimizing casting and machining processes.
  • Supplier support and communication.
  • Handling complaints.
  • Creating 8D reports.
  • Coordinating external Q-gates.
  • Process audits according to VDA 6.3.
  • Implementing and overseeing process stabilization measures.
  • Ensuring delivery quality.
  • Introduction and coaching shopfloor management.
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
8 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter

AMG GmbH

  • Carbon component manufacturing.
  • Enabling suppliers and process development.
  • Introduction shopfloor management.
  • Installing Q-gates.
  • Process audits according to VDA 6.3.
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
3 months
Germany

Senior Consultant

TRW-Automotive

  • Benchmark analysis and market research for outsourcing projects in production and assembly to Eastern Europe.
  • Strengths and weaknesses analysis with concept development.
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
2 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter

Hilite Europe GmbH

  • Resident engineer for AUDI AG.
  • Precision metal manufacturing for hydraulic valves.
  • Ensuring delivery performance.
  • Installing and supervising corrective measures.
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
5 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter

Daimler AG

  • Benchmark analysis for exterior labeling 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 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter

Daimler AG

  • Installing and supervising Q-gates for exterior labeling.
  • Implementing a logistics concept.
  • Supplier development.
  • Auditing according to VDA 6.3.
  • Defining and monitoring improvement measures.
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
4 months
Czech Republic

Senior Consultant / Resident Engineer

IGW Transmission

  • Resident engineer.
  • Installing firewalls in the transmission manufacturing area.
  • Handling 8D reports with root cause analysis.
  • Installing and supervising corrective measures.
Jan 2014 - Aug 2015
1 year 8 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Standortleitung

Feintool System Parts

  • Site management.
  • Setting up a contract processor with 100% outgoing goods inspection for transmission parts.
  • Outsourcing project on a works contract basis.
  • Leading a team of 40 employees.
  • Coordinating external quality inspections.
  • Creating 8D reports with associated action plans.
May 2012 - Dec 2022
10 years 8 months
Romania

Managing Director

QSW Quality Service S.R.L.

  • Building the company in Eastern Europe (100 employees) for OEM Ford quality assurance.
  • Preparing customer audits for ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 14001 across Europe.
  • Resident engineering (body components, axles, windshields).
  • Coordinating global recall, sorting, and rework actions with simultaneous project starts at multiple sites (across countries).
Jan 2011 - Apr 2012
1 year 4 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Trouble Shooter

FTE Automotive

  • Installing Q-gates (CSL) for clutch components.
  • Creating characteristic catalogs.
  • Root cause analysis.
  • Reducing ppm rate from 15,000 ppm to a sustainable 5 ppm.
Nov 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year 2 months
Germany

Executive Assistant

QSW Qualitäts Service

  • Implementing DIN EN ISO 9001 in preparation for certification.
  • Responsibility for budget and cost centers.
Dec 2008 - Oct 2009
11 months
Germany

Senior Consultant / Interim Produktionsleitung

WTA Wachsmuth

  • Budget responsibility (100 employees).
  • Process optimization and productivity improvement.
Jan 1997 - Nov 2008
11 years 11 months
Germany

Teamleitung Instandhaltung Mechanik

Veritas AG

Maintenance of extruders, gearboxes, and plastic injection molding machines.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

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Master Precision Mechanic · Precision mechanics

Certifications & licenses

VDA 6.3 process auditor

Trainer (AEVO)

DGQ – Quality specialist

DVS-IIW welding specialist

EOQ Quality Operator

Industrial specialist in control engineering

Certificate of expertise for airbag and seat belt pretensioner systems

Certificate of expertise 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 leader maturity level

VDA field failure analysis

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