Daan Van Schuylenbergh

Head of Solution Design Automation Business Unit at KION Group

Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • KION Group (Full-time · 6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Head of Solution Design
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Manager Solution Development engineering EMEA
      Oct 2022 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Core responsibilities and tasks: • Drive concept engineering team responsible for concepts, solutions, and pricing for EMEA projects. Support for APAC, North America and Australia regions. • Member of the KION Mobile Automation Project Execution EMEA management team. • Budget and project pipeline reporting. • Main contact for ITS EMEA (Linde MH and STILL) sales and solution design. • Prioritization of tasks and goals within the team. • Provide mentoring and guidance within the team. • Open communication and knowledge share with the team. • General team optimizations and procedures. • Onboarding and training of new team members.

    • Senior Solution Development Engineer Mobile Automation & Single point of contact to Linde MH & STILL
      Jan 2020 - Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      The solution development team conceptualizes and designs the best solution for potential end customers together with the operating units (Linde MH and STILL) sales channels. Focus aspects: offering strategy, technical design and costing. As solution development single point of contact, I acted as the contact point for mobile automation project leads coming from operating units Linde MH and STILL. Core responsibilities and tasks: • Provide mentoring and guidance within the team • Support and validation of team’s project work • Close cooperation with team managers and engineering teams • Open communication and knowledge share with the team • Close cooperation with operating unit sales teams • Project pipeline reporting • General team optimizations and procedures • Onboarding and training of new team members Operating units: Linde Material Handling: https://www.linde-mh.com/en/ STILL: https://www.still.eu/

  • Dematic NV (previously Egemin Group NV) (3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Solution Development Engineer
      Apr 2017 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      The Solution Development group offers strategic and tactical supply chain management expertise. Supporting our customers throughout the entire course of their supply chain improvement initiatives, helping to design and optimize the distribution network, apply state of the art technology, and maximize return on assets.

    • Concept & System Engineer
      Sep 2016 - Apr 2017 · 8 mos

      Egemin Automation designs, implements and maintains automated material handling solutions to improve the intralogistics in warehouses, production and distribution centers. Our solutions increase the efficiency of internal transport, storage and distribution processes. We deliver leading-edge automated guided vehicle systems (AGV), automated warehouse and distribution solutions, in-floor chain conveyor systems and all-inclusive life cycle services to maximize system availability and life of material handling installations.