Michael Messer
Job Application Training & Research
Experience
Jan 2025 - Present
7 monthsJob Application Training & Research
- Active job application phase
Aug 2023 - Dec 2025
1 year 5 monthsReorientation
- Overcoming personal challenges
Jan 2021 - Jul 2023
1 year 7 months Pforzheim, Germany
Design Engineer
Schüssler Technik GmbH
- Development and design of drives with product management support
- Technical support for purchasing
- Creation of requirements/specifications, FMEAs, calculations and verifications with CAE, test protocols
- Communication with suppliers, customers, production, assembly, quality management and product management
- Testing products and problem analysis
- Support for marketing activities (e.g. trade shows)
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 5 monthsUnemployed
- Company order failures due to COVID-19
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
1 year 2 months Birkenfeld, Germany
Head of Design / Design Engineer
Kohnle GmbH
- Management of design for hardening ovens, tempering ovens and quench baths
- Leading a team of five employees
- Conducting technical feasibility studies
- Cost estimation for tool offers
- Developing and improving innovative tooling and manufacturing concepts
- Scheduling and timeline control, cost control
- Meeting quality requirements
- Optimizing production processes
- Budget and investment planning
- Success: cost savings through closer cooperation with suppliers and creating a parts library as proof of components used
Nov 2013 - May 2015
1 year 7 months Eisingen, Germany
Head of Design / Design Engineer
Bender Automation
- Design of automation solutions for the automotive industry
- Leading the design department – organizationally, strategically and content-wise
- Technical and disciplinary leadership of a team of two employees
- Standardizing design processes
- Regular schedule, cost and quality checks
- Responsibility for cost efficiency
- Success: introducing and implementing 3D simulations for the calculation and design of press machine statics
Jan 2011 - Oct 2013
1 year 10 months Neuenbürg, Germany
Certified Head of Design / Design Engineer / Project Manager
HEGA Apparatebau GmbH
Oct 1991 - Dec 2011
20 years 3 months Keltern, Germany
Design Engineer / Project Manager
F. K. Galvanik GmbH
Apr 1983 - Sep 1991
8 years 6 months Keltern, Germany
Design Engineer / Project Manager
Sessler Galvanotechnik GmbH
Sep 1979 - Jan 1983
3 years 5 monthsLicensed Machinist
Stöber Antriebstechnik
Jettingen, Germany
Head of Design / Design Engineer
Schleuniger Test Automation GmbH
- Design of test systems for cable assemblies
- Leading and executing customer, design and development projects
- Optimizing and further developing processes and systems
- Responsible for cost-efficient and on-time processes
- Contact person and driver in collaboration with external development partners
- Maintaining customer and supplier relationships
- Interface work with sales and electrical planning
- Product portfolio management
- Technical and disciplinary leadership of eight employees
- Introducing and optimizing a new numbering system to reduce data volume
- Patent: development and design of a 4-wire contact system to test the exact resistance of cable cores
Summary
My passion for learning and thirst for knowledge drive my continuous growth. I have gained strong leadership skills and many years of experience in design management as well as in special and mechanical engineering. Solid CAD and process engineering know-how, especially in the automotive sector, rounds out my profile. I am also known for my flexibility, strong organization and communication skills, hands-on approach, entrepreneurial mindset, and drive. With solution-focused thinking and effective project, process, and cost management, I deliver innovative, sustainable results.
Languages
German
Native
English
Elementary
Italian
Elementary
Education
Sep 1979 - Jan 1983
Stöber Antriebstechnik
CAMWorks/CNC Milling · Pforzheim, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Leadership for Supervisors
IHK Pforzheim
Project Management
IHK Pforzheim
Machine Safety Expert
HEGA Apparatebau GmbH
Certified Head of Design / Design Engineer / Project Manager
HEGA Apparatebau GmbH
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