Experience

AVL METAL POWDERS n.v.

• Belgium
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Present

• Operations Director

  • Sep 2018 - Apr 2021

  - running operations in a Seveso Plant- implementing Iso 14001 - 18001- implementing digitalization on the shop floor



iPROMACO bvba

• Co-Owner

  • Sep 2013 - Present

  - Innovative Technical, General Management and Leadership in Industrial Business - Process mapping and Process optimization - Project management - Innovative Technical, General Management and Leadership in Industrial Business - Process mapping and Process optimization - Project management



Prince Belgium BVBA

• Plant Manager

  • Nov 2013 - Sep 2018

  - Running the operations in the Bruges SEVESO Plant - Implementing of ISO 14001 - OHSAS 18001 - Chairman of the Work Council and Safety Comitee - Negociating Collective Labor Agreements with Unions - Roll out of Lean manufacturing principles, SMED, 5S projects, TPM - Implementing of a Dynamic Logistic Model - Running the operations in the Bruges SEVESO Plant - Implementing of ISO 14001 - OHSAS 18001 - Chairman of the Work Council and Safety Comitee - Negociating Collective Labor Agreements with Unions - Roll out of Lean manufacturing principles, SMED, 5S projects, TPM - Implementing of a Dynamic Logistic Model



VCST

• Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Engineering Manager

  • Aug 2013 - Feb 2014

  - Leading the local Engineering Team - Setting up a local Engineering Management System * Setting up of KPI's related to Process capability - Costs - Cycletimes and Improvement programs - Implementing timestudy templates for all key Manufacturing Processes - Setting up of a Dynamic Reordering system for Tool replenishment in function of Production Plan - Setting up a knowledge management system for the key Manufacturing Processes - Follow up of Process Capability and PPAP release according ISO/TS 16949 Show less


Bedrijvencentrum Regio Brugge
• Belgium
• Bestuurder

  • 2008 - Jun 2013


IG Watteeuw International

• General Manager Gear- & Component Solutions

  • 2007 - 2013

  - Full P&L responsibility for the Belgium and Romanian gear manufacturing plant- Setting up a Global GCS Management Team- Strategy definition and roll out of it, using the Balance Scorecard methodology- Transformation of the plants from function driven to process driven- Certification of the plants according ISO9001/14001 and IRIS (International Railway Industry Standard)

• General Director Belgium & Operations Manager Gears (BE + RO)

  • 2003 - 2007

  - Full P&L responsibility for the Belgium Plant- Setting up a Belgium Management Team- Chairman of the Work Council- Negociating Collective Labor Agreements with Unions- Alligning the Quotation System with the P&L per type of product- Roll out of Lean manufacturing principles, SMED, 5S projects, TPM- Transforming from global plant organization to Business Unit organization

• Operations Manager

  • 2001 - 2003

  - Responsible for the operations in the Belgium - Romanian and Czech plants- Implementation and transfer of best practices of the Mother company to the sister plants- Restructuring and downsizing of the Belgium plant - Chairman of the comitee for safety, environment and health

• Plant Manager

  • 1999 - 2001

  - Running the Oostkamp plant- Transforming the logistic planning system from infinite to finite scheduling- Working out the logistical flows and setting up of the planning parameters in the ERP-system- Setting up a visual KPI to master the CRP efficiently- Setting up and Roll out of an evaluation system, linked with salary proposal for white collars

• Manufacturing Manager

  • 1996 - 1999

  - Responsible for the production efficiency of the Plant- Implementation of a new ERP system (MFG-Pro from QAD) - Transformation from departemental to customer focused cell production- Design and implementation of a MPS model, to foresee the necessary capacity linked with the sales budgets

• Assembly Engineer

  • 1992 - 1994

  - Start up of the transmission business that grew up to a 50 mio€ business in 2013- Assembly of the MRT-project Singapore, partly in Belgium and partly in Germany

• Trainee

  • 1992 - 1994

  - Practical training on the shopfloor : turning, milling, drilling, hobbing, shaving, grinding and assembly- Setting up a calculation program to define the speed and feed for machining