Jan De Busser

Vice President Strategic Supply Capacity Preparation

Veldhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

About

Experienced Operations Vice President leading multiple sites production facilities in Semiconductor, Automotive and Metals Industry. Strategy definition and strategy deployment, Operational Excellence, Inquisitive Leadership, Engineering, New product introduction, Portfolio management, Strategic Planning

Experience

  • ASML (16 yrs 9 mos)
    • Vice President Strategic Supply Capacity Preparation
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Leading the strategic capacity preparation of the extended supply chain.

    • Vice President Operations Strategy and Excellence
      Nov 2018 - Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      Leading the organization responsible for the industrial strategy, the lean deployment and the Operations Portfolio Management.

    • Vice President Operations and Strategy and Excellence
      May 2018 - Oct 2018 · 6 mos

      Running a manufacturing OEM facility with over 4 BEuro revenue and 1,500 people. Added responsibility for Operations Strategy and Excellence. Running a portfolio of breakthrough projects, central Lean Program and Industrial strategy.

  • PACCAR ()
    • Plant Manager Axle Factory
      Jan 2004 - Nov 2009 · 5 yrs 11 mos

      End responsible for delivering all axles to all DAF truck plants and some external customers. Material supply, machining, assembly, painting, engineering and maintenance.

    • Manufacturing Manager Axle Factory
      Jan 2001 - Jan 2004 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Running a machining and welding facility of over 250 CNC machines and welding robots in a 24/7 regime securing timely delivery to the assembly lines.

  • Production Manager at Duracell
    Jan 2000 - Jan 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Producing C and D cells and 4.5V and 9V batteries for worldwide consumption.

  • Corus ()
    • Production Manager
      Jan 1999 - Jan 2000 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Slitting, cutting and taking care of internal transport of aluminium coils.

    • Process Technology Manager Circles Department
      Jan 1998 - Jan 1999 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Managing a process oriented team that fulfills the demands in a quickly changing and high demanding market (automotive, cookware,…) using the QS9000 standard.

    • Process Technologist Hot Rolling Department
      Jan 1996 - Jan 1998 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Creating a control plan for hot rolling aluminium machines.

  • Project Engineer at IRG Plastics
    Sep 1993 - Jan 1996 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Optimizing a plastic extrusion plant.