Frank H.
Project Manager
Experience
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
3 years 7 monthsProject Manager
Self-employed
- Client: Guldberg GmbH, Munich
- End customer: Dräxlmaier in Sachsenheim, battery assembly for E-Porsche
- Coordination of 12 manual and automatic stations and 4 suppliers
- System completion, ramp-up, final acceptance, and expansions
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
2 years 3 monthsLudwigsburg, Germany
Project Manager
alpha-tec Krimpmann GmbH / Eisenmann alpha-tec GmbH
- Leading the core project team of approx. 25 internal and external staff
- Main contact for the customer and negotiation partner
- Contract review and ensuring compliance
- Overall responsibility for the budget and preparation of the cost outlook
- Cost evaluation and quotation for additional and reduced services
- Schedule creation and coordination; coordination of engineering and quality
- Interface alignment between different system scopes
- Shipping coordination, cost evaluation, and preparation of commercial invoices
- Coordination and participation in package awards to subcontractors
- Business trips for on-site project support (South Africa, Italy)
- Preparation of internal and external status reports
- Management of remaining points and coordination of execution
Oct 2011 - Jun 2016
4 years 9 monthsBietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
Head of Operations
Dürr Systems GmbH / Broetje-Automation GmbH
- Leadership responsibility for 2 departments and 1 foreign branch (approx. 20 employees)
- Project management and site management, foreign branch in Irkutsk, Russia
- Budget responsibility: approx. EUR 2 million per year
- Overall responsibility for all customer orders (total sales approx. EUR 30 million in 2015)
- Organization and execution of monthly project review meetings
- Regular business trips to customers and sites at home and abroad
- Employee and target agreement discussions
- Responsibility for investments and training/continuing education planning
- Responsibility for certification, auditing, and defining KPIs
- Integration and process alignment during restructuring into Broetje-Automation GmbH
- Approval and signing of CE certificates
Apr 2006 - Sep 2011
5 years 6 monthsBietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
Senior Project Manager
Dürr Systems GmbH
- Leading international core project teams of up to approx. 50 employees from various business units and suppliers
- Main contact for the customer and negotiation partner
- Contract review and ensuring compliance
- Overall responsibility for the budget as well as cost evaluation and quotation for additional and reduced services
- Cost reconciliation between participating Dürr business units
- Ensuring key deadlines, schedule coordination and alignment
- Overall responsibility for engineering and quality
- Interface coordination between different system scopes
- Coordination of import deliveries and cost control of commercial invoices
- Project management using in-house software tool “Dürr-Projects” (punch points, change requests)
- Regular business trips for meetings and sites abroad (China, South Korea, USA, Russia, Poland)
- Preparation of internal and external status reports
- Management of remaining points and handover of the project to service after final acceptance
Jan 2002 - Mar 2006
4 years 3 monthsStuttgart, Germany
Head of Electrosystems
Dürr Systems GmbH
- Leadership responsibility for 5 departments (approx. 100 employees)
- Handling electrical systems for process engineering and conveyor technology
- Design, control cabinet manufacturing, assembly/installation, and commissioning
- Control systems (MES)
- Budget responsibility: approx. EUR 7.5 million per year
- Overall responsibility for control technology of customer orders (total sales approx. EUR 25 million in 2005)
- Product manager for standardization and harmonization of control technology worldwide
- Development of new standard software for PLC controls and own visualization platform
- Employee and target agreement meetings at department head level
- Staff planning, recruiting, and investment planning
- Training and continuing education planning for employees
Apr 2001 - Jun 2002
1 year 3 monthsRoetgen, Germany
Self-employed
IBH Company
- Project management for electrical systems and plant design
- Company formation, management, strategy, financial accounting preparation, and controlling
- Portal planning and development for online travel agencies
- Experience in web design, HTML, JavaScript, Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Windows 2000, Linux
Mar 2000 - Mar 2001
1 year 1 monthAachen, Germany
Self-employed
ART GmbH
- Project management for electrical systems and plant design
- Portal planning for online travel agencies
- Experience and connections in the travel industry
Jan 1986 - Feb 2000
14 years 2 monthsMarkgröningen, Germany
Electrical Project Lead, Electrical Designer
Dürr Systems GmbH
- Project management for electrical engineering and electrical design
Jan 1984 - Dec 1985
2 yearsKariega, South Africa
Production Electrical Engineer, Electrical Planner
Volkswagen of South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Production electrical engineering and electrical planning
Languages
German
NativeAfrikaans
AdvancedEnglish
AdvancedPortuguese
AdvancedEducation
Jan 1999 - Dec 1999
University of Cape Town
Master of Business Administration · Business Administration · Cape Town, South Africa
Jan 1980 - Dec 1983
University of Natal
B.Sc. Electronic Engineering · Electronic Engineering · Durban, South Africa
Certifications & licenses
Basics of CE Machinery Directives
MS Project 2010 Migration to PFS Schedules
Incoterms 2010
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Occupational safety & environmental protection in projects and on construction sites
Product liability – compliance in plant engineering
Intercultural training for China
Labor law for managers
Contract law for purchasers
Leadership
Teamwork
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