Gundolf Schneider

Project Manager Cranes and Logistics

Essen, Germany

Experience

Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
4 months
Hamburg, Germany

Project Manager Cranes and Logistics

Aurubis Hamburg (via Hays AG)

For their new Converter.

May 2024 - Oct 2024
6 months

Freelance Consultant

Self-employed

Specification for placing the orders, Coordination of interfaces.

Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
1 year
Bengaluru, India

Lead of Erection and Assembly / HSE Manager

Indo MIM

Erection of a powder production plant for an Indian customer.

Leading the erection and assembly team of the customer Indo MIM.

Responsible for Health, Safety and Environment.

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year
Sulgen, Switzerland

Technical and commercial project management

Belimed Life Science AG

With SAP.

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year
George Town, Malaysia

Site and quality management

Oryx Advanced Materials

For a powder production plant (gas atomization system).

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
3 years

Project Lead

Siam Poongsan

Revamp of a slab rolling mill for copper, including Engineering, construction and site and quality management.

Own order directly from the end customer.

Jan 2019 - Dec 2025
6 years
Hanau, Germany

Interim Head of the Services

ALD Vacuum Technologies

Installation, Service and Construction Management.

Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
4 months

Interim Manager QA

SMS Concast

Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
3 years
Thailand

Interim Head of Service Cold Rolling Mills/continuous casting

Danieli

Jun 2015 - Apr 2025
9 years 11 months
Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany

Project Manager steel works crane and material handling

ArcelorMittal

For their decarburization project.

May 2010 - May 2015
5 years 1 month
Germany

Area Sales Manager

hpl group

  • Development of the whole sales territory Asia.
  • Recruitment and leading of all local sales representatives.
  • Preparing of technical concepts and cost calculations.
  • Technical and commercial negotiations with the customers until order placement and final acceptance.
  • Received order for the technological modernization of a cold rolling mill in Thailand.
  • Prepared the concept and concluded the contract for a complete skin pass mill for saw blade strips in China.
  • Brought company sales in Asia from 0 to firm 2 Mio. Euro / year.
Jul 2007 - Mar 2010
2 years 9 months
Zürich, Switzerland

Commercial and Technical Project Manager

SMS Concast AG (SMS group)

  • Commercial and technical responsibility for 2 large green field continuous caster projects in Thailand and China (large size projects).
  • Leading and guiding the project teams, the consortium members and other parties involved up to the final customer acceptance.
  • Time scheduling and control as well as Claim Management.
  • Expediting and quality control at the sub suppliers and external manufacturers.
  • Regular cost analysis and preparation of the reports for the Managing Board.
  • Erection and commissioning lead on the customer´s site.
  • Both the commercial and technical project goals were achieved.
  • Successful commissioning of the first „combination –caster“ in Asia.
Olpe, Germany

Sales Engineer

Danieli Fröhling GmbH & Co. KG

Burbach, Germany

Project Manager

Hess Maschinenfabrik

Project Engineer

SMS Siemag (SMS Group)

  • Design Engineering (approx. 3 years).
  • Factory planning within a leadership department for turnkey plants (approx. 3 years).
  • Technical Project Management and lead of the Engineering teams (approx. 6 years, one of which at SMS Pittsburgh, U.S.A.) and 6 months at SMS India.
  • Erection and commissioning lead on the customer´s site.

Summary

  • Expert in the field of cold rolling, strip processing lines and continuous casting
  • Solid knowledge in the field of international contracting (EPC projects)
  • Highly experienced in sales and service

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Italian
Elementary

Education

Siegerland-Kolleg

Allgemeine Hochschulreife · Siegen, Germany

Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium

Fachoberschulreife · Kreuztal, Germany

Universität GH Siegen

Diplom-Ingenieur · Mechanical Engineering · Siegen, Germany