Burgkirchen an der Alz, Bavaria, Germany
Experienced senior business operations and general manager in B2B within process industries (base chemicals, specialties and food ingredients), large scale industrial infrastructure and technical services. Being comfortable working in multi-cultural environments. Adding value to operations organizations by strong problem solving skills, providing structure and tools to people becoming even more successful. I have a passion to work with people and technology, especially in designing optimum organisational frameworks to achieve best possible outcomes. Designing and implementing systems for plant performance management is my stronghold. Experience in building up new production capabilities and capacities as well as post-merger integration and divestments. Currently working on the implementation of the transformation strategy of a large scale industrial company focussing on > Zero Accidents > Operational Excellence and substantial EBIT improvement > climate neutral operations by 2045 and > attracting new industrial customers. I am a change leader and convinced by the power of continuous improvement (Kaizen lead).
Leading an infrastructure and services provider which operates the chemical park Gendorf. At the site nearly 30 different companies are located producing chemical products for a broad spectrum of applications. In order to enable seamless and reliable operation at our customers InfraServ provides media like high pressure and highly purified technical gases, energy, cooling and process water and ensures state of the art wastewater treatment, logistics, maintenance, engineering and authority engineering services. The wider InfraServ-team comprises of 1200 fellow colleagues and coworkers. As managing director I'm overall responsible for todays and future success of InfraServ in terms of safety, reliability, quality and cost of service provided to customers and value delivered to shareholders.
Operations Director Europe for Texturizing Solutions. Responsible for all manufacturing related activities in up to eight production sites in Germany, France and Italy. This includes environmental, health and safety (EHS), food safety and quality as well as manufacturing excellence (maintenance&reliability, manufacturing technology, capital effectiveness and continuous improvement). Based in Mechelen (B).
General & Operations Manager for the European Starches & Sweeteners business in Germany, managing director of the legal entity Cargill Deutschland GmbH. Leading two complex production sites in Germany (Krefeld and Barby). Responsible for the coordinative leadership of all other support functions within there German legal entity (finance, HR, supply chain, communication). Representing the company towards external stakeholders like community, authorities, trade unions and associations.
Responsible for the production site of the edible refined oils business. This included environment, health and safety (EHS), food safety and quality, investment project planning and execution, manufacturing and process technology, material handling as well as maintenance and reliability. The site operates several highly automated production lines for refined and modified edible oils and fats including utilities (CHP plant, process water and waste water treatment).
Responsible for the five production lines, material handling and all utilities of the Krefeld site. The plant operates in full continuous mode and produces dry starch, dry feed and corn gluten meal, several grades of hydrolysate, mono- and anhydrous dextrose, sorbitol and ketogulonic acid. A modern steam boiler with steam turbine supplies the plant with heat and power. Process water preparation, compressed air, nitrogen and all chemicals handling like hydrochloric and nitric acid, caustic soda and highly reactive nickel-based catalyst. Products are for food, feed, pharmaceutical and technical applications and customers.