Gunther Van De Poel

Design Engineer Engine Air Off Road at Donaldson

Antwerp Metropolitan Area

About

Design Engineer Engine Air Design Engineer Engine Liquid Mechanical Engineering

Experience

  • Donaldson ()
    • Design Engineer Engine Air Off Road
      Oct 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

    • Design Engineer Engine Liquid
      Feb 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Havells Sylvania (14 yrs 6 mos)
    • Design Engineer LED
      Oct 2012 - Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Product Development Leader Halogen & Optics
      Sep 2005 - Oct 2012 · 7 yrs 2 mos

      •International product development of energy saving halogen lamps •Project portfolio management •Project planning •Knowledge of R&D tools: design of experiments, PFMEA and DFMEA, QFD, SPC •Optical development of refractors, reflectors

    • Optical Development engineer
      Sep 2002 - Oct 2005 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      •Optical development of pressed glass reflectors in house •Guide the whole supplier process from optical development till releasing the final reflector •Develop reflectors for new products (HID, Halogen)

  • Production Engineer at Citrique Belge
    May 1999 - Jul 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos

    •Production planning •Problem solving of production equipment •Implementation of new production projects to increase capacity •Improve the cooling efficiency of the fermentation rooms to increase the acid yield •Setting up a maintenance program for all production equipment together with the production supervisors to keep production equipment up-to-date •Daily follow-up of fermentation process parameters (dosing of the different chemical components for addition to the melasse for getting the optimal acid yield) •Attend meetings with R&D, mechanical engineering, maintenance, purchase department

  • production Engineer Hot Rolling at Aleris
    Aug 1998 - Apr 1999 · 9 mos

    •Daily calculation of line efficiency and down-time •Analyze down-time causes (problem solving) •Define, evaluate and execute actions to reduce down-time in teams (strong teambuilding between production, process, quality, engineering and maintenance) •Optimize hot rolling mill parameters (cooling fluid, hot rolling reduction steps, milling speed, …) in close cooperation with process engineer •Determine and implement ideas to reduce pick-up during the hot rolling process