Egill (Thor) E.
External Quality Manager in Project (QMIP)
Experience
Wind Consultant
Egill Thor
Project: Lego – SMP ECR standardization to 1.2 and roll-out
Standardization of paper bags production lines by rolling out improvements defined in ECR 1.2 packages at manufacturing plants
Set up stakeholder management with internal and external partners (Maintenance, Planning, Platform, Vendors, etc.)
Managed installation teams, coordinated them with Equipment and Platform managers / engineers, developed installation and execution plan for execution, tracked progress and reported to management
Project: Siemens Energy (SGRE) – Quality Manager in Projects - 5X platform
Quality insurance of internal and external manufacturing, organizing and planning inspection activities on specific manufacturing sites, receiving inspection at project sites and managing inspectors located at manufacturing sites
Clarified accept criteria with manufacturing and managed/tracked nonconformities for corrective action and securing handover from manufacturing to projects
Quality manager in project at multiple sites in Sweden & Germany
Reported to Quality Management
Project: DARG consultant (USA) Gearbox kitset market analysis Europe and North America
Defined the up-tower kits for the 1.3 MW wind turbines and larger in both North America and Europe and determined the key models and markets where support is most needed
Reviewed part numbers and ratios of selected gearbox types to determine the compatibility between the versions
Product Manager
Vestas Service
- Product management of large development and service programs, including contractual negotiations with large international companies
- Owned projects and led a group of specialists and service engineers, including main component supplier specialists
- Established alliances and cooperation with all main suppliers in the wind industry and standardized repair method across repair vendors
- Established global main component repair footprint and repair program for developing repair specifications including cost of repair reduction and overall repair performance
- Developed processes with clear transparencies for new repair solutions by simplifying organization approach
- Developed and implemented repair shop qualification process, including repair database
- Defined and implemented category team within power train component group
- Main component up-tower repair program resulted in over 100 million euro service cost reductions in three-year period
Senior Manager
Vestas Technology & Service Solutions
- Managed and developed strategic areas for service and component repair development, defined business opportunities and managed team of 15 engineers
- Established vision & strategy for global component repairs
- Developed repair concepts and specifications
- Implemented repair requirements and monitored repair performance
- Built up global repair capabilities
- Reduced cost of repair by over 40%, reduced repair lead-time for major products and increased component reuse/rework rate considerably
Product/Platform Manager
Vestas Spare Parts & Repair
- Developed business unit, defined business opportunities
- Established vision & strategy for 3MW platform: V90-3MW & V112-3MW
- Ensured business unit readiness under product releases – Vestas Way to Market
- Established business procedures and defined key performance indicators
- Built up global world class supply chain
- Managed New Product Introduction (NPI) process & cost optimisations
- Ensured service assurance & service readiness
Key Account Manager
Vestas Technology R&D, Operations
- Handled Vestas contract obligations including service contract liability and warranty failure process in operating wind turbines; responsible for warranty provision and management of North America market
- Relocated to Portland, Oregon, USA from 2008 to 2010
- Oversaw all Vestas Americas warranty activities including customer settlements, implementations, planning, budgeting and cost controlling; settled all major warranty claims and closed evergreen warranty contracts, including Vestas biggest customer at the time, totaling more than 600 million USD
- Aligned business unit organisation & Technology R&D priorities for handling open warranty claims
- Improved business unit warranty forecast reliability for calculating warranty liability of new projects or service renewals
- Reduced yearly warranty provision from 5% to under 2% in the period
Senior Project Manager – Special Project, Service Concept
Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Closed warranty obligations and negotiated settlement with end-customers globally as well as with main suppliers
- Managed key account customer warranty negotiations
- Negotiated sub-contractor warranties
- Established and implemented Component Failure Management system (CFM), later becoming Continuous Improvement Management system (CIM), improving failure handling time considerably
Director of Manufacturing & Production
Liquid Ice
- Managed and developed strategic areas for production and R&D development, defined business opportunities and managed team of 25 blue-collar workers and 5 engineers in company manufacturing and servicing liquid ice machines in Iceland
- Started company after bankruptcy in close cooperation with owner (the bank)
- Selected key players and finished developing key products and restarted production
- Turned the company around from losses to profit within less than one year by delivering reliable machines
Quality Assurance Manager
Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Managed supplier quality assurance and approval of preferred suppliers
- Audited supplier quality activities plan for main components
- Established quality assurance agreements of deliveries to Production Business Units (PBU)
Summary
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering with more than 23 years’ experience in wind turbine business, supported by strong technical knowledge and practical experience throughout the entire Vestas business value chain.
- Business and commercial understanding
- Able to involve stakeholders, delegate and achieve results
- Specialised in wind turbine main components service and repair
I’m easy to work with, I have internal and external relationship network established and I always maintain objective focus. I have experience working in international positions, breaking down silos and building up teams for setting and achieving strategic goal. With me you will get an experienced person within company/business area developments and able to create positive results through market development and/or strategic improvements.
My personal target is to increase my knowledge and experience by contribute to creating results based on a visionary strategy development and implementation. I’m ready to take on responsibility for larger and more demanding tasks to translate my knowledge and experience in the operating businesses.
Languages
Education
Odense Teknikum
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering · Denmark
Marine School
Machine Engineer · Iceland
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