Karl Soerensen

Project Director at BEUMER Group

Central Denmark Region, Denmark

About

Experience in Brief: • More than 15 years of experience with Project Management worldwide • 10 years of experience with domestic and international Sales Management • Proven record of large scale project successfully completed • Proven record of satisfied customers • Proven record of multiple projects sold and multiple projects successfully completed • Solid background in Project Engineering, Energy Sector, Project Planning, Project Execution and its processes • General Management experience, setting up local company securing local supplies • Good knowledge and experience with airport technique and procedures • Technical knowledge of the Energy Sector and its techniques • Excellent relation, communication and negotiation skills on all business levels. • Success in managing projects, hiring and coaching team members with many different cultures from almost all over the world • Experience with arbitration in London, English law Specialties: • Project Management • Member of PMI; Certified PMP • Board member Education • Management, Marketing and Sales • Good commercial and legal understanding • Excellent success in cross border management • Able to develop and keep good and productive relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues • Airport Engineering: Baggage operation, Baggage Handling Systems (BHS), and Hold Baggage Screening equipment (HBS) • Demonstrated high degree of mobility by working half time abroad and half time at the main office and later being stationed abroad for more than 6 years

Experience

  • BEUMER Group (Aarhus )
    • Project Director
      Apr 1998 - Present · 28 yrs 3 mos

    • Project Director
      Apr 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Project Director Calgary DTB refurbishment of BHS system

  • Crisplant A/S (17 yrs 2 mos)
    • Project Director
      Apr 2013 - Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Arbitration case filed by subcontractor, 2 years preparation and case presentation & documentation.

    • Project director
      Aug 2007 - Apr 2013 · 5 yrs 9 mos

      Project Director Baggage Handling Systems (BHS) and Hold Baggage Screening (HBS) equipment for NDIA – New Doha International Airport, 1 billion DKK contract. Crisplant were the main contractor for the BHS and HBS. Activities: • Team establishment, team management domestic and cross boarder • Engineering management • Contract navigation, Contract management • Interface management and Risk assessment • Contract formation, Sub-supplier contract formation • Customer presentation, managing the design and approval process • Management of establishing the technical specifications for BHS/HBS • Management of tenderer evaluation and its technical and financial proposals • Management of budget establishing , budget follow-up, reporting, change management • Ensuring a consecutive and good relationship, and taking good care of external stake holders • Monthly review meeting with top management • Management of installation plans, sequence, resources and cost • Management of test and commissioning, the plans, progress and reporting related to this • Securing seamless participation in airport operation readiness trials • Drafting and reviewing project correspondence

    • Programme Manager (Project Manager)
      Mar 1998 - Jul 2007 · 9 yrs 5 mos

      Programme manager, Various Baggage/Parcel Handling Systems (BHS) projects, Bid manager and various sales promotion work for specific airports • Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (today's name) - Taiwan, sub-supplier to KHI Japan • Pudong International Airport, Shanghai China, sub-supplier to KHI Japan • Anset–Sydney Domestic Airport, Australia, sub-supplier to Glidepath New Zealand • Chadwick – mail order sorting system, Boston, PM resource team assistance to Crisplant Inc., carried out the project directly with Chadwick of Boston on behalf of CP Inc. • 3 parcel projects Japan, supply of material to Crisplant agent in Japan, Sumitomo, few end-user meetings • Reclaim systems for Kathmandu and Aruba International Airports, execution of contracts, taken by FKI Canada and Novate to Crisplant a/s, due to closing of the FKI set up in Canada • Completion of British Airways World Cargo, belt conveyor system and tilt tray sorting system, contract directly with British Airways • Start-up of project Munich Airport Terminal 3, consortium with Siemens, contract towards Siemens • NAIA IPT3 – new terminal in Manila, the Philippines. Main Contractor for the BHS and HBS towards Civil Main Contractor Takenaka • ADP – Charles de Gaulle, France project Terminal 1 Phase 1-4, subcontractor to Van Der Lande • ADP – Charles de Gaulle, France, completion of the Project Terminal 2 (E & F) • Leading task force to rectify server fatigue crack in the ADP - CDG terminal 2F project • Bid Manager, Main Contractor bid for BHS system to Incheon International Airport – Korea • Sales promotion work for Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, including bid team establishment Activities: •

  • General Manager at BWSC snd, Sandakan, Borneo Malaysia
    1997 - Mar 1998 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Activities: • Setting op the local organization to facilitate the project and Project management team • Securing the payment scheme from local funding, BWSC was turnkey supplier of a 2 stroke diesel Engine Power Station to a BOO. Build, own and operate set-up, project site was located in virgin jungle area • Securing procurement of all local supplies, mainly MEP works • Securing communication and good relation with the land owner, the one who sold off the land needed for the site and secured excavation of the local river, needed for barge transport of main machinery • Sales assistance to a 4 stroke diesel power station project to be established in the vicinity of Sandakan

  • Sales Project Manager at BWSC, Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor, Allerød Denmark
    1991 - 1996 · 5 yrs

    Sales project Manager, Combined Heat and power stations in Denmark and abroad based on fuel as waste incineration, natural gas, Bio gas (or Diesel). Activities: • Establishment of Competitive System configuration • Establishment of competitive procurement agreements for main components • Establishment of KPI calculation program • Sales promotion work • Managing the tender preparation, sales price determination, sales and contract negotiation and contract formation. • Established the contracts for several natural gas fired Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants in Denmark • Established the contract for Kolding CHP, based on steam from waste incineration • Established the contract and the contract set up for natural gas fired CHP in Decin - Czech Republic. Funding mainly established via exchange/selling of CO2 quota to Wisconsin (USA) with Danish Energy Agency & Denmark National Bank as provider

  • Product Line Manager at Jysk Naturgas & Dansk Energi System
    1988 - 1990 · 2 yrs

    Activities: • Establishment of suggested programme for many Danish district heating companies, promoting CHP • Presentation of the commercial and technical benefits and detailed technical assessment of the technique if establishing a CHP system • Establishment of tender and contract formation reg. delivery of turnkey CHP system, securing procurement agreement of key components