Zürich Metropolitan Area
Site Leader with > 15 years outstanding Lean management and manufacturing experience and capabilities out of my assignments as Site Leader at Sonova, as Plant Manager at HARTMANN France and as Director Global Lean Management for the HARTMANN Group. Trained and grown up in various Leadership roles in the LEAN environment of Procter and Gamble. Excellent experience in: Lean management, manufacturing, people management, strategy setting, coaching and continuous improvement.
- Responsible for the plant, including all its departments (>260 FTE) - Target achievement in safety, quality, delivery, cost, ESG and innovation - Organizational and cultural development of the site towards a global lead site for operational excellence and towards a global competence center for technology - Full budget and Opex/Capex ownership
- Responsible for the Sonova Operations and repair center in Switzerland including all its departments like the production, planning, logistic, technics, operational procurement, etc. - Organizational, cultural and people development of the site with its around 250 employees towards a Lighthouse in Lean and towards a Global Competence and Innovation Center for new products and technologies - Oversee the daily, weekly, and monthly plant activities to ensure customer needs - Set and implement plant strategies and action plans in to achieve the business need in safety, quality, people, delivery, cost and innovation - Develop the plant and its teams to a self-sufficient organization, based on global lean transformation management principles and a holistic and maturity-based program - Ensuring compliance in all governance matters regarding internal requirements and external regulations like the medical device regulation, HSE, MDSAP and ISO13485 - Full accountability for the plant budged and the planning process including operational and capital expenses - Kaizen, Pull, VMI and Problem Solving Coach and Leader - Reporting to upper management and networking within the SONOVA GROUP and beyond
- Strategic development and implementation of global training set up in Continuous Improvement tools and processes according to Sonova Business System - Developing the training program strategy and content - As an integral part of the Global Operations team, drive sustainable and transformational change in an identified area of the business / operation with demonstrated improvement in KPIs across the region at Sonova. - Deploy best practices across scope and functionally and drive continuous improvement activities within scope by specific trainings for all Sonova brands in respective region in close alignment with VP Regional Operations and Continuous Improvement Leaders - Build continuous improvement capability through training and implementation of various processes, tools and methods - Consult, coach and train Sonova GCs and OCs
- Plant Manager of HARTMANN plant in France (250 employess) - Responsibility of the production plant including all its departments like the production, the technical department, project management, planning, etc. - Ensure safe production in the right quantity and quality to the lowest cost - Built up a lighthouse plant in the LEAN transformation and be a key driver in the automation process of the production - Full responsibility for the plant budged and the planning process including operational and capital expenses - Oversee stategic projects to drive cost and inventory reduction
- Develop and deploy a holistic Lean strategy - Coordinator of all integrated lean activities of the HARTMANN GROUP - Coach for Cluster Leaders, Plant Managers and Lean Managers to efficiently implement the lean transformation with its systems and lean methods for continuous improvement - Leader of the Global Lean Network and Global Lean Department
- head of production department (>80 people) - ensure safe production in the right quantity and quality to the lowest cost - drive the lean transformation in operations - steer for operational excellence - build highest customer value - build outstanding capabilities in our people - member and consultant of the global Lean network at HARTMANN - ISO 13485 and 9001 expert
Operations Department Leader Technical Support - Head of technical department - Site Progressive Maintenacne Pillar leader - Responsibility for a Process Engineer - Maintenance & Repair budget owner - Material utilization plant owner - Autonomous maintenance coach - Lean management in Operations - Resposibility for training coordinaton - Coach and Trainer in Operations
Line manager for 2 hair care production lines (25 people incl. AM and PM technicians + 1PE) - Personal responsibility of line teams and technicians - Personal responsibility of a process engineer - Owner of key line results and strategic orientation - Line loss map lead model with focus on a lean production - Line contact for initiatives and project management in engineering (100% of start-ups passed for 3 big projects e.g. new dosing system) - Initiative management Pillar member - Autonomous Maintenance coach
PE in Packing department for Hair care lines - Continuous change over time improvements through standard work workshops - Technical change over improvements like run empty automation for case packer and new wash out system - Change over capability leader - Change over software Owner - Plant Work process improvement Pillar Leader - Autonomous maintenance Pillar member and AM coach - Site change control owner