Johannes Arens

Group Director Manufacturing Engineering bei GEDIA Automotive Group

Ruhr Region

About

Experience

  • GEDIA Automotive Group (6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Group Director Manufacturing Engineering
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Global Lead of the Manufacturing Engineering (ME) Departments in Europe, Asia and North America. Responsibility for Technology Development, Process Planning, Industrialization Project Management and Launch Management in the ME Area

    • Head of Joining Technology
      Feb 2020 - Jan 2024 · 4 yrs

      Process Development -, Project Management - and Launch Management Assembly Engineering

  • Global Manufacturing Engineering Manager at KIRCHHOFF Automotive
    Jul 2017 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • Functional lead of the global Expert-Team Assembly • Global Project Support and Technical Support of all local ME Centers • Development of Welding- and Joining technology in the field of Manufacturing Engineering • Definition and leading of the global technical standard

  • KIRCHHOFF Automotive ()
    • Project Engineer Assembly
      Oct 2015 - Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos

      Corporate Manufacturing Engineering (CME) Project management for Welding-, Assembly-, and Special Equipment. Technical process responsibility during the industrialisation process of the Equipment

    • Process Engineer Assembly & Co-op Student
      Aug 2008 - Sep 2015 · 7 yrs 2 mos

      04/2012 - 09/2015: Corporate Manufacturing Engineering (CME) Process Engineer Assembly, Design of Resistance-Welding-Equipment, Planning of equipment, standardization, launch of manufacturing equipment 09/2011 - 03/2012: international project in Romania - Craiova, Ford B-Max (B232) 08/2008 - 09/2011: internal training & department rotation, Bachelor-Thesis: Resistance Spot Welding of Steel-Aluminium-Joints by DeltaSpot

  • Master Thesis at Welding and Joining Institute (ISF) RWTH Aachen University
    May 2015 - Dec 2015 · 8 mos

    MIG-Brazing of hot dipped galvanized high strength steel under investigation of metallurgical and geometrical aspects

  • Maintenance Mechatronic at Aloys F. Dornbracht GmbH & Co. KG
    Sep 2006 - Jul 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Maintenance of production equipment www.dornbracht.com