Experience
Jun 2023 - Present
2 years 3 months
- Supplier management.
- SQI audits.
- Sustainability management.
Aug 2022 - Present
3 years 1 month
- Planning support.
- Prioritization.
- Staff recruitment.
- Cleanroom.
- Assembly monitoring.
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
1 year 3 months
- Head of operations.
- Production management.
- Implementation and monitoring of KPIs.
- Shopfloor management.
- Maintenance.
- SCM.
- AVOR.
- Process optimization.
- Extended executive management.
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
2 months
- Planning support.
- Prioritization.
- Assembly monitoring.
- Progress control.
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
6 months
- Project planning of leather interior and seat parts for the Porsche Panamera.
- Task force meetings.
May 2020 - Sep 2020
5 months
- Task force with Bosch.
- Process optimization proposals.
- Project management.
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
3 months
- Analysis of production issues.
- Start-up difficulties.
- Process optimization proposals.
- PPAP.
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
2 months
- Evaluation of two laser welding systems.
- Process optimization proposals.
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
5 months
- Development and project management of plated emblems.
- Process optimization.
Dec 2018 - May 2019
6 months
- Supplier evaluation and development.
- Value analysis.
- Process optimization.
- Certification 16.949.
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
4 months
- Webinars for future industrial masters on plastics and rubber.
- Training sessions.
- Exam preparation for the master craftsman exam.
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
3 months
- Supplier evaluation and development.
- Identifying and implementing cost reduction potentials.
- Supplier selection for new projects.
- Production analyses.
- Savings potentials.
- Production control with problem suppliers.
- Process assessment and evaluation.
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
4 months
- Supplier evaluation.
- Supplier development.
- Process optimization.
- Audits.
- Progress control.
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
2 months
- Assessment and optimization of injection molding production and assembly of door panels.
- Maintenance and repair suggestions.
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
1 month
- Process and workflow optimization during the start-up of a new project.
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
3 months
- Development support for the interior of the new BMW Z4.
- Process optimization.
- International tool support.
- Ramp-up at the Legnica plant in Poland.
May 2017 - Jun 2017
2 months
- Use of the lightweight filler Bublon in plastics, coatings, and adhesives.
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
2 months
- Exploration of an investment opportunity.
- Professional and technical support and consulting.
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
1 year
- Fundamental development for new antenna generations.
- Support in all plastics-related questions.
- 3D-MID, organometallic foils.
May 2014 - Apr 2016
2 years
- Project management for actuators and U-housings.
- Coordination with various OEMs.
- Part cost calculation.
- Assembly process.
- Tool management for prototypes and series.
- FMEA.
- Supplier management.
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
3 monthsWangen im Allgäu, Germany
- Assembly management.
- Shift planning and team leadership.
- Workflow optimizations.
- Cleanroom production of hygiene articles for schools and dental practices.
- Printing and sterilization.
May 2013 - Dec 2013
8 months
- Project management of interior parts for the Audi Q7.
- Coordination with external development and system suppliers.
- Alignment and approval by OEM Audi.
- Tool management.
Jun 2012 - Present
13 years 3 months
- Member and partner in various networks such as DDIM, DÖIM, VRIM, ABTF.
May 2012 - Mar 2013
11 months
- Development and evaluation of a new joining technology.
- Testing at lab scale and transfer to a series product.
- Production support.
- Quality assurance and testing.
- Assembly cost calculation.
- Alternative material sourcing.
Jul 2010 - May 2012
1 year 11 months
- Site management.
- Restructuring with relocation of machines and automation.
- Procurement of new and optimization of existing production cells.
- Technical support for the Belarus site.
- In-house toolmaking.
- Plant structure planning.
- Infrastructure expansion.
- International SCM.
- Reporting to the managing director.
- Personnel responsibility for approx. 125 employees.
Jun 2008 - Oct 2009
1 year 5 months
- Site management, project management and sales.
- Production and assembly support.
- Cleanroom manufacturing and assembly of dental devices.
- Development of own mold design and toolmaking.
- PPAP and APQP.
- Interior responsibility for the Porsche Panamera.
- Plant shutdown and relocation.
Apr 2002 - May 2008
6 years 2 months
- International customer support and project management.
- Sales support.
- Application engineering and plastic-friendly part design.
- Support for in-house development.
- Coordination with external developers.
- Part cost calculation.
- PPAP coordination with international customers.
Sep 1994 - Mar 2002
7 years 7 months
- Setting up a plastics technology profit center.
- Restructuring from a hierarchical to a process-oriented structure.
- Establishing an independent QA.
- Application engineering and plastics support internally and externally.
- Setting up plastics production in the Czech Republic.
- Budget and sales responsibility.
- Reporting to management.
Jul 1991 - Aug 1994
3 years 2 months
- Workforce planning for 3-shift operations.
- Maintenance of over 100 injection molding machines.
- Setting up an electronic plant board with MES support.
- Support for production planning, production and assembly.
- Team member for new developments, including costing and project management.
Aug 1986 - Jun 1991
4 years 11 monthsRapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
- Development support through plastic-friendly part design.
- Material selection and rheological calculations.
- Introduction of new production processes (2K, GID, LSR).
- Process optimization.
- Reporting to managing directors and department heads.
Apr 1985 - Jul 1986
1 year 4 months
- Order planning.
- Production support.
- Tool design.
- Setting up quality assurance (Q101).
- Coordination with tier 1.
- Safety components (seat belt systems).
- Assembly supervision.
Oct 1981 - Mar 1985
3 years 6 months
- Introduction of plastics in construction.
- Industrial and research projects.
- Restoration supervision of the Albertina in Vienna.
- Crack-bridging coatings.
- Polymer concrete.