Gundolf Schneider
Project Manager Cranes and Logistics
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 monthsFreelance Consultant
Self-employed
Specifications for placing orders, coordination of interfaces.
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
1 year Bengaluru, India
Lead of Erection and Assembly / HSE Manager
Indo MIM
Assembly of a powder production plant for an Indian customer.
Leading the customer's erection and assembly team at 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
Using 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 yearsProject Lead
Siam Poongsan
Revamp of a copper slab rolling mill, including engineering, construction, and site and quality management.
Direct contract with 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 monthsInterim 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 entire sales territory in Asia.
- Recruiting and leading all local sales representatives.
- Preparing technical concepts and cost calculations.
- Technical and commercial negotiations with customers until order placement and final acceptance.
- Won the order for the technological upgrade of a cold rolling mill in Thailand.
- Developed the concept and signed the contract for a complete skin pass mill for saw blade strips in China.
- Grew company sales in Asia from zero to a solid 2 million euro per 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 two large greenfield continuous caster projects in Thailand and China.
- Leading and guiding the project teams, consortium members and other parties involved up to final customer acceptance.
- Time scheduling and control as well as claim management.
- Expediting and quality control at subcontractors and external manufacturers.
- Regular cost analysis and preparation of reports for the Managing Board.
- Lead of erection and commissioning on the customer’s site.
- Achieved both commercial and technical project goals.
- 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 (about 3 years).
- Factory planning within a leadership department for turnkey plants (about 3 years).
- Technical project management and lead of the engineering teams (about 6 years, including one year at SMS Pittsburgh, USA, and six months at SMS India).
- Lead of erection and commissioning 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
General university entrance qualification · Siegen, Germany
Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium
Technical secondary school certificate · Kreuztal, Germany
Universität GH Siegen
Diploma in Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Siegen, Germany
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