Edmund (M.sc.) N.
Sr. Manager Operation- Site Karlsruhe (Interim)
Experience
May 2022 - Present
3 years 8 monthsSr. Manager Operation- Site Karlsruhe (Interim)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Karlsruhe
- Responsible for all operational areas: logistics, production, supply chain, quality, planning and improvement
- Built a new organizational and leadership structure during the COVID-19 situation
- Redefined internal processes and continuously tracked targets
- Reduced extruder delivery time from 28 to 10 weeks within 15 months
- Reduced lab lead times from 15 to 3–4 weeks
- Increased analysis output by 35% while reducing capacity by 20%
- Reduced inventories and increased turnover rates
- Improved supply chain strategy, cycle time reduction and flow production for serial products
- Pushed digitization in production and warehouse management
- Implemented a comprehensive reporting system
Feb 2021 - May 2022
1 year 4 monthsDirector Supply Chain & Operation EMEA – Site Manager Ulm (Interim)
LTG Luminator Technology Group
- Stabilized the purchasing, production and logistics organization at the Gdansk plant after high turnover due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Coached and supported purchasing and production teams
- Calculated demand forecasts to secure production materials
- Introduced shop floor management and coordinated workflows
- Planned insourcing projects
- Managed and coordinated the company relocation from Ulm to Neu-Ulm
- Set up a warehouse in Poland
- Coordinated supplier and customer activities during the 2021 semiconductor and material crisis
- Optimized supplier management and reduced backlog through consolidation
- Defined supply chain strategy and coached on implementing shop floor standards
- Introduced and developed S&OP at the plants
- Optimized assembly lines at the Ulm plant through one-piece flow, statistical process control and capability studies
- Managed change and implemented lean tools on the shop floor
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
1 year 1 monthManaging Director (Interim)
Haas Maschinenbau GmbH
- Took over management after financial difficulties and negative performance in 2019
- Restructured the workforce based on financial criteria
- Created profitability analyses for banks and lessors
- Developed action plans to reduce cost and waste
- Established KPI management to measure processes and lower production costs
- Set strategic direction based on the company’s strengths
- Improved sales structure and expanded quality management
- Introduced data protection management and prepared for certification
- Implemented 6S measures and standards on the shop floor
- Set rules for working hours, overtime and holidays
- Introduced an approval system for purchasing and project management
- Implemented project plans to track customer projects efficiently
- Communicated with customers and suppliers on delivery capability and project status
- Planned layout and storage and determined machine locations
- Defined measurement parameters to achieve strategic goals
- Achieved a positive result in 2020
- Digitalized data management and developed EHS projects
Oct 2018 - Feb 2020
1 year 5 monthsOperations Management, Technical Management
Allegion
- Led teams in production, logistics, procurement and quality management at the Renchen and Durchhausen/Stuttgart sites
- Advised and interacted with operations managers at other plants in Europe
- Reduced inventory through active supplier management
- Analyzed and improved the supply chain model to standardize lot sizes and implemented the supermarket method on the shop floor and in the warehouse
- Expanded and optimized strategic procurement
- Planned, implemented and evaluated a pre-treatment line for the powder coating system
- Developed business cases for investments
- Improved injection molding department efficiency through SMED activities to reduce setup times
- Conducted value stream analysis, improved material flows and reduced lead times on the shop floor
- Introduced standard lead times to increase delivery performance
- Designed layout for assembly, warehouse, injection molding and powder coating and implemented supermarket chains
- Streamlined intralogistics and automated pre-treatment and powder coating processes
- Converted assembly lines to increase material flow efficiency
- Managed KPIs and served as SCM advisor for other group plants
Jun 2014 - Oct 2018
4 years 5 monthsHead of Supply Chain & Operation EMEA
LTG Luminator Technology Group
- Planned and executed production relocations in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland to Gdansk, Poland
- Consolidated all plants at one production site and built a lean operation in Gdansk
- Established and improved strategic purchasing and standardized and optimized processes in inventory management, procurement and production
- Improved logistics performance from supplier to customer
- Introduced supermarkets in the assembly process to reduce lead times
- Reduced inventory by introducing standardized, much smaller lot sizes
- Cut picking processes through shop floor supermarkets
- Transferred supply chain strategy to suppliers and sub-suppliers
- Applied lean management tools at all sites
- Reduced transport costs by switching from air to sea freight
- Regularly analyzed processes through performance measurement
- Led and expanded the organization in Poland and Europe
- Coached staff in lean management and Six Sigma
- Established and improved flow production
- Made make-or-buy decisions and developed business cases
- Served as an operations consultant at all sites
Feb 2004 - Jun 2014
10 years 5 monthsProject Manager – Plant Operations
König Automotive GmbH & Co. KG
- Programming production equipment and optimizing manufacturing processes
- Reducing setup times in series production and toolmaking
- Establishing and expanding a series production line for turned parts
- Transition from toolmaker to automotive supplier for high-volume production
- Planning automation projects to boost efficiency and raise quality standards
- Implementing and maintaining the ISO/TS 16949 quality standard, including internal and certification audits
- Introducing a purchasing structure for tooling and automating ordering processes
- Communicating with customers and suppliers
- Designing and planning the production layout
- Statistical process control and capability studies (SPC)
- Personnel management and leadership
- Planning machine arrangement based on lean principles for multi-machine operation
- Implementing 6S initiatives
- Reducing internal lead times and optimizing administrative and operational processes
- Planning and implementing an ERP and shop floor data collection system, as well as data management and digitalization
Nov 2002 - Aug 2003
10 monthsLiechtenstein
Trainee Plant Operator – Protective Gas Hardening
Bodycote
Aug 2002 - Nov 2003
1 year 4 monthsNenzing, Austria
Employee – Crane Assembly and Shipping
Liebherr Nenzing
Sep 1988 - Aug 2002
14 yearsBruneck, Italy
Skilled Worker in Cardan Shaft Production – FAF Operator
GKN ADD Bruneck
- Setting up welding robots and preparing production equipment
- Welding, straightening, and turning
- Setting up and monitoring flexible automated robotics and logistics systems
- Optimizing production programs
- Supporting serial production launches
Summary
Building organizational structures in mid-sized companies with a focus on cost reduction and sustainable efficiency; analyzing production, logistics and procurement processes and planning measures to optimize operational workflows for efficiency and effectiveness; outsourcing and relocation processes; optimizing value streams in operational and administrative areas; industrial engineering, process design, standardization and automation; layout planning and implementation, forecasting and supply chain standardization to reduce inventory and ensure delivery capability; supplier management and supplier policy optimization; implementing LEAN principles to eliminate waste on the shop floor, in the supply chain and in administrative processes; active KPI management; strategic alignment, leadership and optimization of projects
Languages
German
NativeItalian
NativeEducation
Oct 2012 - Jun 2014
Industrial Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Oct 2008 - Jun 2010
IHK
Technical Business Administrator
Oct 2005 - Jun 2007
IHK
Technical Specialist Administrator
...and 4 more
Certifications & licenses
LEAN Advisor
LEAN Manager
Auditor ISO TS16949
LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt
LEAN Six Sigma Green Belt
Technical Business Administrator IHK
IHK
Specialization AutoCad/SolidWorks
Technical Specialist Administrator IHK
IHK
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