Stefan Hans
Management Consultant
Experience
Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 4 monthsMonheim am Rhein, Germany
Management Consultant
Unternehmensberatung Repera GmbH
- Process optimization
- Start-up support in production
- Project management
- Factory and layout planning
- Shop floor management
- Lean management
- Operational Excellence (OpEx)
Jul 2023 - Apr 2024
10 monthsDortmund, Germany
Management Consultant
Unternehmensberatung Harkort Consulting
- Execution of challenging consulting projects in lean management
- Conducting workshops
- Facilitating leadership trainings
- Coordinating project teams
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
1 yearFrankfurt, Germany
Management Consultant
Unternehmensberatung, Brockmann und Büchner
- Documenting and handling deficiencies in rail technology
- Scheduling and defining responsibilities for deficiency resolution
- Customer support
- Preparing client presentations
- Documenting and creating reports from defect data
- Measurable acceptance of defects and ensuring timely resolution
Sep 2016 - Jun 2022
5 years 10 monthsFrankfurt am Main, Germany
Senior Consultant
Unternehmensberatung Korn Consult
- Planning, execution and leadership of projects and modules on site at industrial clients
- Weakness analyses with development of implementation concepts and project execution
- Supplier support on quality-related topics
- Supplier development and management
- Ensuring supply chains
- Conducting and completing six consulting projects in the automotive industry, e.g.:
- Project at Thyssenkrupp, Hagen and Olpe: 4.5 Mio. € budget
- Full organization of relocating a storage facility from China to Hagen
- Dismantling, packaging and transporting the facility
- Industrialization and preparation of the facility and site in Hagen
- Installation and commissioning of the systems in Hagen
- Preparation of samples for customer approval
- Project at LEAR Corporation, Sindelfingen: project management, about 2 years
- Liaison between DAG and LEAR for information exchange on the entire BR167 (M-Class) seating system with production in Tuscaloosa, USA and development in Germany/Czech Republic/India/USA
- Responsible for all plastic parts of the project, reporting directly to procurement at LEAR Southfield, USA
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
1 year 8 monthsVelbert, Germany
Project Manager | Automotive Locking Systems
Witte Automotive
- Compliance with standards considering customer requirements
- Responsibility and management of ongoing development projects, regular status reports
- Organizing and setting priorities
- Monitoring deadlines, costs and quality targets
- Initiating countermeasures on target deviations
- Issuing production and change approvals
- Ensuring effective communication and coordination with customers
- Successful completion of the reverse camera project for VW across sites in Germany, Czech Republic and China and contribution to lean projects in production and administration
Aug 2012 - Dec 2014
2 years 5 monthsBergneustadt, Germany
Project Manager | Automotive Structural Systems
Metalsa Automotive
- Leading customer-commissioned new projects
- Executing projects within time, cost and quality criteria
- Supplier management
- Supporting product and process development
- Timely provision of equipment and testing tools
- Staff support, team communication and meetings
- Initiating escalation management
- Budget responsibility for projects totaling 30 Mio. €
- Technical responsibility for up to 20 project team members
- Execution of the Daimler BR205 integral carrier project for sites in Germany, South Africa, USA and China
- Integral carrier is an assembly and welding unit that connects the steering column and fixes the engine block
Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
7 monthsKriftel, Germany
Head of Industrial Engineering
Kokinetics
- Investment planning and preparation of specifications
- Layout planning
- Production optimization
- Market monitoring
- Definition and introduction of new technologies
- Planning of new assembly systems
- Preparing cost calculations
May 2009 - Dec 2011
2 years 8 monthsBrno, Czech Republic
Project Manager | Door Systems for Rail Vehicles
Knorr-Bremse Division IFE
- Technical and commercial leadership of complex product and technology projects with up to 15 staff and budgets up to 8 Mio. €
- Kick-off meetings, scheduling, creating/aligning/assigning work packages
- Promoting customer satisfaction
- Ensuring continuous technical development
- Supplier communication
- Product approvals (FAI)
- Measures for performance improvement
- Documentation and facilitation of ongoing meetings
- Developing and negotiating product change costs
- Competitive analysis, controlling and reporting
- Successful delivery of five tram entry system projects with follow-up orders (Krefeld, Palermo, Innsbruck, Augsburg, Vienna)
Mar 2008 - Apr 2009
1 year 2 monthsPlettenberg, Germany
Technical Sales Manager | incl. VW
Dura Automotive Body & Glass
- Processing customer data for in-house design and project management
- Project management until handover
- Customer presentations
- Analyzing, evaluating and performing cost calculations
- Preparing, drafting and presenting proposals
- Technical contact internally and externally
- Preparing inquiry data
- Evaluating and implementing technical changes
- Customer support
- Technical coordination and project acquisition for VW Scirocco B-pillar trim and Passat
Jan 1998 - Feb 2008
10 years 2 monthsHeiligenhaus, Germany
Industrial Engineer | Process Engineer
Kiekert AG
- Technical and personnel responsibility for up to 15 project team members and budget responsibility up to 10 Mio. €
- New planning of assembly systems and lines
- Cost calculation, investment approval, feasibility analyses
- Developing and introducing new assembly concepts
- Start-up support for production lines (worldwide)
- Continuous improvement projects (CIP)
- Product and process optimization
- Series production support
- New planning of international sites/production concepts
- Planning and managing closures of production plants in Velbert and Birmingham and relocation of existing facilities
- Technical support for licensees worldwide (China, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Italy, France, UK)
- Planning, sales and implementation of production lines for licensees worldwide
- Successful completion of 15 projects at home and abroad
- Introduction of new assembly and testing concepts, securing Ford as customer, standardizing production concepts globally
- Plant planning for the site in China
Sep 1997 - Dec 1997
4 monthsWuppertal, Germany
Intern | REFA Technician
Schaeffer GmbH
Mar 1997 - Aug 1997
6 monthsWuppertal, Germany
Intern | REFA Technician
Vorwerk Elektrowerke GmbH
Summary
- More than 25 years of experience in an international environment
- Proven success in numerous automotive projects
- Technical expertise combined with commercial thinking
- Strong service orientation
- Solution-focused team player with initiative and leadership skills
- Pragmatic team player with a hands-on mentality
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
Advanced Education
Mar 1994 - Aug 1997
REFA Institut
REFA Technician, REFA Industrial Engineer, incl. MTM · Industrial Engineering · Dortmund, Germany
Aug 1978 - Jul 1984
Realschule
Secondary School Leaving Certificate · Schwelm, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Process Auditor VDA 6.3
REFA Industrial Engineer
REFA Institut
REFA Technician
REFA Institut
Driver's License Class B
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