Jan Latzko

Interim - Support Customer Quality and Consultant for IATF 16949 audit

Gernsbach, Germany
Experience
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
5 months

Interim - Support Customer Quality and Consultant for IATF 16949 audit

  • Customer Quality: Revitalization of complaint management (8D, FMEA/PLP) until de-escalation at individual OEMs in the 1st quarter
  • Lean Management: Development and implementation of corrective actions in the affected production lines or departments
  • Consulting (QMB and Executives): Briefing, interpretation and preparation of the entire organization on relevant and current requirements for the successful certification audit
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
10 months

Consultant Supplier Management (industry: mechanics)

  • Development of reactive and preventive supplier
  • Definition and controlling of critical supplier KPIs
  • Introduction of maturity levels for new product projects with the main objective of timely initial sampling
  • Set-up of a toolbox for preventive and reactive topics
  • Training and empowerment of the team supplier quality
  • Design and implementation of a new tool for supplier audits (2 options: self-assessment or auditor)
  • Escalation & bottleneck: revision / activation as key-process
  • Developing lessons learned or best practice
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
9 months

Interim – Quality Manager Global (automotive and industry)

  • Consulting and reorganization of process landscape
  • Consolidation of several process organizations
  • Reorganization processes IATF conformities
  • Internal audits (system, process, product)
  • Optimization internal quality organization
  • Preparation IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 13485
  • Project setup of TISAX and ASPICE Level 3
  • VDA, VDA/RGA, and PPAP requirements
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
10 months

PL - Quality Planning: Ramp up & Support Porsche Team: Taskforce

  • APQP / PPAP management: revision, maintenance, coordination
  • Taskforce (De-escalation) with Project, Management and OEM
  • Serial approval (PPAP): organization validation planning (PVPs)
  • Design-approval (“K-Freigabe“): preparation and documentation
  • Special Sessions: “Meisterbock, Teiletisch, Farbklausur”
  • Empowerment: plant-team and AQEs (training or coaching) VDA 6.3
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
8 months

Quality Planning and Ramp-up Support Audi and VW E-Cars

  • Validation planning
  • “Meisterbock”, Cubing
  • APQP and PPAP grade 3 and 1
  • Customer portals
  • Customer milestones
  • VDA 6.3 audits (plant / project, supplier)
  • Customer meetings and reporting
  • Serial approval Customer visits
  • Plant ramp-up support
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
11 months
Remote

Quality Planning: PQL with superordinate management function

  • Quality Management: development of global Q-Planning
  • Safe Launch Audits: VDA 6.3 P2-P4; partly in remote
  • Management-meetings: PMS gate review
  • Ramp-up support (training, briefing, Run@Rate)
  • OEM-meetings with different customers
  • RFQ: acquisition new projects
  • Recruiting Q-Team for new site
  • Taskforce management
  • New site: Ramp-up planning
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
11 months

Interim - Head of Corporate Program Quality

  • Quality Management: development of global Q-Planning
  • Management-meetings: PMS gate review, steering committee
  • PMS: Monitoring of gate reviews results and corrective actions
  • Global QM-strategy: Support of VP Sustainability / Quality
  • RFQ calculation-tool: Revision (int./ ext. standards and costs)
  • Budget-building: quality-relevant invests for projects and plants
  • APQP / PMS: development, standardization
  • Run@Rates: controlling with Head of Corporate Programs
  • VDA 6.3 Process audits: coordination and controlling
  • Measurement technology / standards: 3D-scanning, network
  • Recruitment for new JIT / JIS: identification, interviews
  • FMEA standardization: mentor of FMEA trainer
Jan 2018 - Present
7 years 7 months

Several Engagements as Consultant / Auditor (1st-3rd Party) / Inspector (DGQ) / Trainer / Facilitator

Abstract Project

  • ISO 9001: initial certification in 2024 / re-certifications (2023-2025)
  • IATF 16949: re-certification in 2023 and re-organization / new CAQ
  • VDA 6.3 (Potential, P2-P4 or P5-P7 incl. VDA 6.5)
  • TISAX (ISO 27001) in 2023
  • Six Sigma projects / Lean Master
  • Workshops (Teambuilding, LSP, Scrum, Risk-Assessment)
  • Benchmark Analysis: Global OEMs – PPAP (Time, Costs, Potentials)
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Slovak
Elementary
Education
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Graduate Engineer (FH) · Mechanical Engineering

Certifications & licenses

DGQ (ISO 17024:2012)

DGQ

DGQ-Inspector

DGQ

IATF 16949

ISO 13485/MDR

ISO 17025

ISO 9001

Dekra

TISAX

VDA 6.3

VDA

VDA 6.5

VDA

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