Stephan J.

Interim Manager

Glienicke/Nordbahn, Germany

Experience

Oct 2024 - Aug 2025
11 months

PMO

Fritz Winter GmbH & Co. KG

Jul 2024 - Present
1 year 6 months

Interim Executive & Project Manager

Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG

Oct 2022 - Jun 2024
1 year 9 months

Plant Manager, Transformer Plant Dresden

Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG

  • Significant EBIT increase
  • Realignment for further growth
  • Continuous dialogue on goal setting & employee buy-in
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
3 years 7 months

General Manager, Switchgear Plant Berlin

Siemens AG

  • Successful restructuring
  • Significant production increase
  • Substantial fixed cost reduction
  • Successful COVID crisis management without short-time work or production downtime
  • Successful transformation to a smart & green factory
Oct 2016 - Apr 2019
2 years 7 months

Plant Manager, GI Switchgear Plant Berlin

Siemens AG

  • Turnaround back to profitability
  • Improvement of First Pass Yield (FPY)
  • Transformation to a future-proof product portfolio
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 2 months

Project Manager Manufacturing 2020

Siemens AG Measuring Instruments Plant Berlin

  • Introduction of Industry 4.0 for competitiveness
  • Noticeable productivity increase
  • Start of a sustainable cultural change (Lean/digitalization)
Dec 2012 - Sep 2015
2 years 10 months

Head of R&D Process & Quality Management

Siemens AG

  • Global introduction of Lean Development
  • 25% cost savings and improved time-to-market
Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
3 years

Department Head Software Development

Siemens AG

  • Disciplinary and professional leadership of 20 employees
Apr 2001 - Jan 2010
8 years 10 months

Developer & Project Manager, Languages

BinTec Communications GmbH

Oct 1994 - Apr 2001
6 years 7 months

Hardware & Software Developer

Clyxon Laser for Medical Professionals GmbH

Summary

Farewell to the status quo. Celebrate successes together and with agility

Driven by curiosity to shape, change, and leave a lasting mark.

Skills

  • Realignment of industrial plants
  • Transformation to an intelligent and green factory (smart & green factory)
  • Boosting productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency for more growth
  • Turnarounds to return to profitability
  • Boosting resilience
  • Operations + Innovation + Change
  • Extensive leadership experience as factory manager and general manager with P&L responsibility
  • Factory sizes from 200 to 2,500 employees
  • Revenue responsibility of €100 to €500 million
  • Successful handling of crisis situations and execution of necessary turnarounds
  • Sustainable measures to secure competitiveness in a constantly changing market environment
  • Proven success in effectively realigning and downsizing organizational units
  • Confident in negotiations with works councils
  • Innovative thought leader for productivity improvement
  • Strong implementation skills in change management
  • Transformation expert with empathy
  • Ability to lead people through change and keep them motivated on board
  • Solid knowledge of industrial IoT, cloud, and AI
  • Experienced in operating within an international production network
  • Energy - electrical engineering - electronics
  • Industry - mechanical and plant engineering
  • Plants with Engineer to Order (ETO) and Make to Order (MTO) manufacturing principles
  • Bridging vacancies in operations, e.g., plant management, general manager with P&L responsibility
  • Turnaround & restructuring for sustainable return to profitability
  • Increasing company resilience "stronger into the next crisis"
  • Strategy design and implementation, e.g., digital transformations, green factory
  • Productivity increase through targeted use of smart technologies (e.g., RPA, IIoT, AI, GenAI)
  • Task force for critical situations in projects or operations
  • Change management and coaching in transformations
  • Project management for complex, company-wide projects
  • Hands-on
  • Thinking out of the box
  • Growth mindset
  • Strong execution skills
  • Decisive
  • Ability to motivate
  • Authentic
  • Honest
  • Goal-oriented
  • Open to change
  • Courageous
  • Empathetic

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Aug 1990 - Sep 1994

Berlin University of Applied Sciences

Diploma in Engineering (FH) · Telecommunications Engineering · Berlin, Germany

Sep 1987 - Aug 1990

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco GmbH

Industrial electronics technician, production technology · Germany

Certifications & licenses

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