Sven Müller
Occupational Safety Specialist (FaSi)
Experience
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
7 monthsNeumark, Germany
Occupational Safety Specialist (FaSi)
Sächsisch-Bayerische Starkstrom-Gerätebau GmbH
- GAP analysis of the current state of operations
- Hosting safety talks
- Analyzing, evaluating and tracking lasting corrective actions for near-miss and accident reports
- Following up on lean topics to optimize safety
- Ensuring safety protection across the plant
- Optimizing communication within the plant and across group sites
- Raising employee awareness of what’s needed for a safe environment
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
6 monthsGermany
Management Representative for Quality, Environment, Energy and Occupational Safety
cunova GmbH
- GAP analysis of the current state of operations
- Sustainable planning, execution and assurance of new processes in line with legal, regulatory and normative requirements
- Structuring the management system (entirely new) with tasks and responsibilities/roles of process owners through workshops and training
- Maintaining existing certificates and supporting colleagues to uphold ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 50001
- Tracking resolution of all audit findings
- Ensuring continuation of all four standards
- Streamlining the existing management system for a more practical organization
- Raising employee awareness of the integrated management system
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
4 monthsGermany
HSE Manager
Eisengießerei Dinklage GmbH
- Sustainable planning, development and oversight of operational and strategic concepts, rules and regulations (e.g. plant security, reducing near-misses)
- Supporting specifications for HSE in casting cranes, extraction and sand preparation systems
- Structuring the HSE team with clear tasks and responsibilities
- Supporting implementation of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 with EMAS, ISO 45001 and ISO 50001
- Tracking resolution of all audit findings
- Developing and implementing a BBS system (e.g. through training videos)
- Reducing accidents
- Raising employee awareness of safety and environmental issues
- Reducing language barriers
May 2023 - Oct 2023
6 monthsGermany
Supplier Manager and Troubleshooter
SENEC GmbH
- Structuring, executing and tracking measures for sustainable supply chain principles and performance
- Auditing suppliers based on VDA 6.3
- Tracking resolution of all audit findings
- Successfully developing suppliers and ensuring supply chain performance
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
5 monthsCzech Republic
Global Quality Manager and Troubleshooter
RIMOWA GmbH
- Structuring, executing and tracking measures for sustainable global and local quality organization
- Implementing metrics to measure performance
- Optimizing internal and external processes for better communication between departments and suppliers
- Creating process descriptions and improvement loops for SQE, lab and general QA
- Developing and agreeing on agreements with suppliers (e.g. QSV, delivery windows)
- Providing support and knowledge transfer in core areas (lean management, quality assurance, production, suppliers, FMEA development)
- Building a sustainable successful organization with org chart, roles, KPIs, job descriptions and training plans
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
3 monthsBad Saulgau, Germany
Supplier Manager and Troubleshooter
CLAAS Saulgau GmbH
- Structuring, executing and tracking measures for sustainable supply chain principles and performance
- Implementing metrics to measure performance
- Optimizing internal and external processes for better communication from customer to supplier and back
- Consolidating numbers, data and facts in the ERP system
- Developing and agreeing on agreements between customer and supplier (e.g. QSV, delivery windows, frozen zones)
- Providing support and knowledge transfer in core areas (planning, production, suppliers)
- Successfully developing suppliers and ensuring supply chain performance
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
5 monthsVogt, Germany
Interim Quality Planner and Troubleshooter
RAFI GmbH & Co. KG
- Ensuring supplier performance for projects before SOP
- Structuring follow-up measures and tracking them
- Implementing metrics to measure performance
- Building teams with production, development and design
- Consolidating numbers, data and facts
- Providing support and knowledge transfer in core areas (QVP, development, design, production, suppliers, FMEA expansion)
- Successful project start into series production
- Successful development of individual gates
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
6 monthsGaildorf, Germany
Interim Quality Manager and QMB/ UMB/ EMB
OBD Precision GmbH
- Introducing standards for handling 8D reports
- Structuring the QA department
- Implementing metrics to measure performance
- Building teams in QA with production and process engineering
- Consolidating numbers, data and facts
- Providing support and knowledge transfer in core areas
- Successfully restructuring the company
- Bringing the company to certification readiness
- Securing and expanding jobs
- Fostering a culture change mindset
May 2019 - Jan 2020
9 monthsAchim, Germany
Interim Quality Manager and QMB
MA Automotive Deutschland GmbH
- Building a QA structure with staff and equipment for a new plant (270 robots)
- Introducing standards for handling 8D reports
- Structuring the QA department
- Implementing metrics to measure performance
- Building teams in QA with production
- Consolidating numbers, data and facts
- Visualizing quality and safety issues to raise employee awareness across departments
- Supporting ISO 45001 implementation with lean approaches
- Providing support and knowledge transfer in core areas
- Introducing metrics for the first time to measure performance
- Successfully restructuring the company
- Bringing the company to certification readiness (initial and surveillance audits)
- Raising Q-helb2 from 74% to 94.6% in a team
- Elevating the company to B and A supplier status
Sep 2017 - Present
7 years 11 monthsChemnitz, Germany
Managing Partner | Consultant and Troubleshooter
qdc GmbH + qdc Akademie GmbH
- Consultant, auditor and trainer
- Troubleshooter, crisis manager, optimizer and turnaround specialist for companies in difficulty
- Preparing companies for certification in quality, environment (with EMAS), energy, asset management systems and ISMS/TISAX + data protection
- Facilitating FMEAs
- Enforcing, monitoring and updating HACCP systems
- Implementing and maintaining lean management
- Training and education
- Bringing all clients and partners to certification readiness
- Very grateful and satisfied clients/partners
- Reducing or eliminating waste
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
1 year 6 monthsGrünhain-Beierfeld, Germany
Quality Manager & QMB
Hock Sachsen GmbH, (now RUPF SPW Technologies GmbH)
- Introducing standards and structuring the QA department
- Implementing metrics to measure performance
- Building teams in QA with production
- Consolidating numbers, data and facts
- Visualizing quality and safety issues to raise employee awareness across departments
- Providing support and knowledge transfer in core automotive tools
- Reducing complaints by 43% from 2015 to 2016
- Cutting quality costs by 41% from 2015 to 2016
- Reducing 100% inspections by 61% from 2015 to 2016
- Introducing performance metrics for the first time
- Reducing accidents by 36% from 2015 to 2016
- Successfully restructuring the company
- Bringing the company to certification readiness (initial and surveillance audits)
- Implementing ISO/TS to IATF 16949 transition 50%
- Eliminating all CSL 1 and 2 levels through problem-solving processes
- Elevating the company to B and A supplier status
Sep 2013 - Feb 2016
2 years 6 monthsCrimmitschau, Germany
Lean Manager / Quality, Environment and Energy Management Representative
Westfalia Presstechnik GmbH & Co.KG, (now Vollmann Presstechnik GmbH & Co. KG) + H&T ProduktionsTechnologie GmbH
- Introducing standards and checking their sustainability
- Acting as ambassador for continuous improvement (awareness, workshops, LEAN learning factory)
- Analyzing data including KPI creation
- Monitoring success of measures
- Displaying and tracking KVP results
- Planning, organizing and delivering employee trainings
- Leading workshops e.g. 5S with 6S (safety), SMED, TPM, Swimline
- GoGEMBA coordination of all improvement projects
- Developing a sustainable safety philosophy with KPIs and visualization
- Consolidating numbers, data and facts
- Creating checklists and tracking them
- Supporting and transferring knowledge to other sites in core areas
- Implementing lean thinking in both companies
- Motivating employees through work optimization
- Improving and streamlining production processes
- First site to hold 100% lean workshops in H&T Group
- Reducing lead time by 65% in KVP projects
- Completing “LEAN Management in Production” training program at both sites for ~380 employees in six months
- Enforcing, monitoring and evolving the management system through system, process and supplier audits
- Leading and developing the environment & energy team
- Running environment and energy projects: reducing press line pressure and leaks, using machine waste heat for heating and hot water, energy assessment for three hardening furnaces with ROI analysis and spec creation, lighting control groups for energy savings, adding a free cooler to the cooling circuit, reducing hazardous substances, strategic energy purchasing
- Defining and reviewing all internal and external quality deviation reports
- Training on QM/EM/UM system topics
- Capturing current HSE measures and executing them
- Ongoing safety and fire protection training
- Participating in investment planning for energy- and environmentally-efficient equipment and data analysis
- Recording and analyzing consumption data e.g. energy, operating materials
- Creating work and inspection instructions
- Developing checklists and participating in quality circles (Ishikawa, 5W, Automotive Core Tools)
- Maintaining the legal register
- Managing energy and environmental aspects per standards
- Reviewing quality cost summaries and creating action plans
- Passing energy and environment management audit without findings
- Passing ISO/TS 16949 audit with 9 minor and zero major findings
- Reducing energy use by 4% year over year with same or higher output
- Developing both companies to B and A supplier status based on prior customer audits (C-supplier)
Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
6 monthsMeerane, Germany
Quality Management Representative
Magna Exteriors & Interiors (Meerane) GmbH
- Supporting and developing suppliers
- Developing and implementing a document control process per ISO/TS 16949:2009 for Magna Meerane
- Monitoring and maintaining the QM system per ISO/TS 16949
- Conducting internal and supplier audits per VDA 6.3
- Facilitating FMEAs for various bumper variants
- Handling complaints per 8D principles
- Creating and maintaining audit-ready documentation (FMEA, DOE, audit reports)
- Leading Six Sigma and KVP projects
- Establishing a safety system with training
- Designing VSA/VSD to map and implement processes in practice
- Successful initial certification to ISO/TS 16949:2009
- Reducing supply chain costs through standardization
- Improving work environment with 5S
- Maintaining ISO/TS 16949:2009
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
2 monthsMeerane, Germany
Quality Planner
Magna Exteriors & Interiors (Meerane) GmbH
- Supporting in-process tests to improve process capability using Automotive Core Tools (FMEA, SPC, PLP, APQP, PPAP, 8D)
- Auditing per VDA 6.3
- Monitoring and maintaining the QM system through audits, KPI tracking and action follow-up
- Facilitating FMEAs for injection-molded parts
- Leading a Six Sigma project (saving €456,000 in assembly)
- Coordinating and conducting final inspections in assembly and receiving with work and inspection instructions
- Creating checklists and participating in quality circles
- Creating Ishikawa diagrams and addressing identified issues
- Visually inspecting incoming, painted parts and performing color measurements
- Coordinating KAIZEN projects in assembly (welding equipment)
- Supporting effective QM system setup and guiding multiple parts to SOP
- Improving process capability
Jan 2009 - Apr 2013
4 years 4 monthsGenthin, Germany
Freelancer in Quality Management
x-clusiv MedienAgentur
- Monitoring and maintaining QM system (ISO 9001:2008)
- Conducting internal and supplier audits on request (ISO/TS 16949, ISO 14001)
- Facilitating FMEAs
- Creating and maintaining audit-ready documentation and records
- Building and retaining clients
- Successfully advancing clients to certification readiness (initial, surveillance and recertification audits)
Apr 2006 - Oct 2006
7 monthsBerlin, Germany
Administrative Specialist at Federal Level
Jul 2003 - Jun 2014
11 yearsMarienberg, Germany
Soldier (Master Sergeant)
Deutsche Bundeswehr
- Basic service with mountain troops in Schneeberg
- Fixed-term soldier with infantry in Marienberg
- Fixed-term soldier with special unit “LEKE” in Donauwörth
- Organizing and conducting training up to combat deployment
- Selecting and training snipers
- Leading soldiers for up to four months as an external team in Afghanistan and Kosovo
- Monitoring and updating regulations and legal documents
- Calibrating and adjusting weapons and weapons systems
- Managing procurement and administration of security-related defense materials and proper storage
- Training personnel in specialist military courses
- Maintaining existing databases within the Bundeswehr network
- Training, maintaining and commissioning security-sensitive Bundeswehr systems
- Ensuring safe return of all assigned soldiers after each mission
- Ensuring smooth operations
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
Advanced Education
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
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Master of Professional Practice, Quality · Quality
May 2013 - Oct 2020
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MBA - General Management, Lean and Six Sigma · General Management, Lean and Six Sigma
Sep 1999 - Jul 2003
Berufsschulzentrum für Wirtschaft II
Business High School · Chemnitz, Germany
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Certifications & licenses
Compliance Officer (ICO CMS 37301:2021 Professional)
Process Auditor per VDA 6.3 - 2023
Refresher Course for Environmental Auditors and EMAS
Process Auditor per VDA 6.7
Certified Risk and Crisis Manager for Corporate Restructuring and Turnaround
HTW Dresden
SiGeKo (Safety & Health Coordinator)
Fire Safety Officer
IFS (Food Safety Initiative) Representative and Internal Auditor
Occupational Safety Specialist I-III (Electrical, Construction, Metal)
Certified Environmental Management Representative (TAW)
External Data Protection Officer (TÜV)
ISO 27001 (ISMS) Officer
Energy Management Representative per ISO 50001 (TAW Cert)
Automotive Core Tools (Foundation IATF 16949)
Process Auditor per VDA 6.3
ISO/TS 16949:2009 1st/2nd Party Auditor
Certified External Quality Auditor
FMEA Moderator
Lean Management & Six Sigma Professional Black Belt
Certified Safety and Security Officer
Training of Trainers Certification (IHK) per AEVO
Certified Business Specialist (IHK)
IHK
Internal Auditor per TGA Guidelines
Driver’s License Class B, C, E
Sport Boat License (Sea)
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