Manufacturing Engineer

• Nov 2020 - Present

• Development, Validation and Implementation of new manufacturing processes, procedures and technologies• Conceptual design of fixtures, semi-automatic and automatic solutions and implementation of automatic production systems• Train production personal and hand-over new processes, procedures and technologies• Build and update manufacturing and maintenance documents • Risk assessment and analysis and development of error prevention systems in production environment• Initiation and participation of lean-, innovation- and continuous improvement projects• Software programming for automatic production solutions

Project Management LEVC VN5

• Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

Director of Production

• Oct 2017 - Oct 2020

• Managing the production department of a T2 automotive supplier consisting of 3 sections; plant-, production-management and maintenance-section• Professional and disciplinary leadership of 3 section managers and a department size of 150 employees• Coordinating, planning and procedure of all mold trials, sample orders and mass production orders in SMC/ LFT-D/ RTM/ PCM compression molding and post-processes such as, CNC, robot-aided trimming, gluing, assembly, wash and drying • Planning and executing all preventive and predictive maintenance action in the whole company for machinery, equipment’s, molds and fixtures• Responsible for budget, costs, project evaluation, capacity and investment planning in production• Continuous process and cycle time optimization and implementation of automation in molding and assembly processes• Developing and implementation of OEE-system in production• Developing, programming and implementation of Warehouse Management System on VBA-Basis

DTC Manager

• Sep 2016 - Sep 2017

• Managing the technical development center & automation department (DTC) in the shoes industry• Professional and disciplinary leadership of 30 people• Continuous training & development of the operators, technicians and engineers in DTC department• Coordinating, planning and procedure around 500 mold trials yearly and sample orders in compact injection molding and special injection molding processes as physical- & chemical foaming, coated injection, multiple components injection• Intermediation between R&D and mold shop to optimize 3D part and mold design• Continuous process and cycle time improvement, automation tests and optimization loops before hand-over the projects to mass production• Implementation of new integrated systems in production, i.e. cavity pressure sensors for process control, grinding system to run process with re-granulate, 6-axis robots

Project Engineer

• May 2015 - Sep 2016

Supplying the Volkswagen AG with engineering services, such as DMU research, design, construction, customer support, time & supplier tracking and release process in the following projects of the interior divisions instrumental panel and center console:• Implementing 5 Stars NCAP safety package for instrumental panel and center console extents inside the model update interval of VW Sharan and Seat Alhambra European market• Construction ABT radio cover inside the model update interval of VW Sharan European market• Project lead in implementation of SOMO Sound edition for the European market with IMD covers for all center console and instrumental panel extents inside the model update interval• Development of VW New Bora center console assembly group in a new vehicle project for the Chinese Market in cooperation with FAW-VW

Student Engineer

• Aug 2013 - Apr 2015

- Apprenticeship in mold setting, machine setting, automation setting of injection molding machines - Studying strategies of process optimization and implement learned skills during mass production - Failure analysis of defective parts, including process-, mold- and laboratory-analysis - Setting up action plan for improvement and creating processing standards - Internship at Shanghai branch, support implementation of various automation systems, i.e. cavity pressure sensors, visual inspection and automated material feeding- Composing the bachelor thesis “Systematic failure analysis of light guiding thermoplastic products for the specific optimization and the improvement of economics” in cooperation with Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG to acquire the academic degree Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)

Internship: Automation Engineer

• Jul 2014 - Oct 2014