Bremgarten, Aargau, Switzerland
Strategic-minded and results-driven leader with over 40 years of experience in industrial production and service sectors. Expertise in quality assurance, problem management, and leading technical teams across diverse geographical regions. Demonstrated ability to deliver budgeted commercial outcomes through strong business leadership, statistical analysis, and a relentless focus on standardization. Passionate about translating vision into actionable business results. Key Competencies: Extensive experience in quality and problem management Strong business leadership capabilities Proficient in leading technical teams and managing workloads across wide geographical areas Demonstrated commitment to delivering budgeted commercial outcomes Passionate, results-driven orientation Strong statistical analysis and problem-solving skills Focus on relentless standardization
Responsible for Engineered to Order Production of medium voltage AC Drives in a range up to 80MV. Including: Production Planning, Assembling, Testing, Continues Improvement. - 150 employees - Digitalization and automatization - Standardization and relentless reduction of product variation/diversity under the manufacturing aspect - Responsible for operational safety and quality - Continuous process improvement and People development Result: Annually efficiency increase of 3 to 5 % Introducing production planning software and production MES Digital Shop Floor Board TPT reduction of 15%
P&L Responsibility for the local product group with ca. 50 employees - Global commissioning and service engineers - Technical support for worldwide customer inquiries - After sales for internal and external customers Development, implementation of the service strategy together with the service management team Development and implementation of new Service products and Tool Improve customer relationship to increase customer satisfaction Responsible for operational safety Continuous process improvement and People development Member of the Global BU and the ABB Switzerland Service team Result: Initiated and established a new After Sales Service organization based on the international experience of service structures from Robotics-Service Development of a Service product portfolio including marketing and pricing information Service Level agreements developed and established later used from BU world wide Standardized and pre-configured retrofit solutions developed Average annual revenue growth since 2010 > 20% Doubling the commissioning competence Cost reduction in commissioning ~ 30% by setting up a commissioning organization in India
Responsibility for the Service organization with ca. 50 employees - Global commissioning and service engineers - Technical support for worldwide customer inquiries - After sales for internal and external customers Development, implementation of the service strategy together with the service management team Development and implementation of new Service products and Tool Improve customer relationship to increase customer satisfaction Responsible for operational safety Continuous process improvement and People development Member of the Global BU and the ABB Switzerland Service team Result: Initiated and established a new After Sales Service organization based on the international experience of service structures from Robotics-Service Development of a Service product portfolio including marketing and pricing information Service Level agreements developed and established later used from BU world wide Standardized and pre-configured retrofit solutions developed Average annual revenue growth since 2010 > 20% Doubling the commissioning competence Cost reduction in commissioning ~ 30% by setting up a commissioning organization in India
Project management "New production facility in Shanghai" 7 months support and supervision locally in Shanghai Introducing Chinese employees into production and product specific know how Implementation of a global production planning tool Specification, tendering and project management of a new production hall Implementation of an inventory and maintenance tool for the Hamlar facility Material harmonization at the Hamlar facility Result: Growing production facillity in Shanghai from 38 MA to 158 Emplyees within one year Establis global production planning tool in China including chines language Project reralisation of the new production within 8 months including planning, building permit procedure, tendering, construction and completion. Reduction of material diversity at the location by 70%
Head of the cost center with 5 teams and a total of 55 employees Driving productivity improvements: Workplace design, processe and workflow Implementation of a cross-sourcing project with the factory in France Result: Lower Q costs by 40% in the first year Elimination of production bottlenecks
Interim management: Planning and implementation of a site closure with approx. 20.000m2 production halls Termination of customer and supplier obligations Planning and implementation of personnel reduction and new placements Transfer of product lines and production facilities to other international ABB sites and sale of all remaining facility inventory Development of efficient solutions together with the landlord to rebuild the production halls in a defined original status Negotiation and awarding of civil engineering for reconstruction to the original status Professional disposal of contaminated toxic waste such as asbestos, oil contamination, etc. Building a new infrastructure for the remaining service department Result: For 80% of the workforce a new job could be found 50% project cost savings: - estimated project costs on-site: 10 -15 MCHF; - actual project costs on site: ~ 6 MCHF Time and cost savings through premature handover of the halls to the landlord Timely compliance with all delivery obligations despite decreasing numbers of skilled workers
Development of the new function of Business Developing. Development of an internationally used sales configurator for electric motors in cooperation with the production facilities in Finland, France, Italy and Sweden Initiate and define a price list for international sales Develop technical sales documents Conducting product training for international sales managers Representative in the global Marketing and Communications Council of ABB engine manufacturers Process optimization and technical support for Sales, R & D, SCM, PM, etc. Result: Global rollout of the sales configurator within ABB.
International Commissioning and Service intervention