Stephan Kuehne

Project manager with a focus on team development and customer satisfaction

Holzkirchen, Bavaria, Germany

About

I am a team-oriented and customer-focused manager and project leader, with more than 20 years’ experience in a digital printing press manufacturing company, who makes things happen.

Experience

  • Abteilung Zugsicherung / Train control systems at Stadtwerke München GmbH
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Océ - A Canon Company (19 yrs 11 mos)
    • Industrial engineering manager
      Apr 2016 - May 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      - Head of the department with up to 18 employees - Budget responsibility for €2 million - Responsible for the "Industrial Engineering" subproject for the timely introduction of three new products in the product lines following lean manufacturing principles, and implementation of improved quality test procedures with a lead time and standard time reduction by 50% - Responsible for the "Industrial Engineering" subproject during the relocation of a production site from North America to the Poing site within 12 months - Merging of the two departments Industrial Engineering and Equipment Engineer-ing by reducing 25% of the positions while keeping the same range of services of-fered

    • Senior Project Manager (R&D)
      Jan 2015 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

      - Project manager for the carton board printing project with an R&D budget of more than €10 million per annum and approx. 100 project employees in interdisciplinary teams - Realignment of the project team to stabilize the development device platform as the basis for the technical and economic re-evaluation of the project - Responsible for the introduction of a matrix project organization into the project team as a team development pilot project

    • Product Line Manager
      May 2012 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Product Line Manager for continuous-feed inkjet products - Chairman of the project steering committee, responsible for project management, budget monitoring (more than €10 million per annum), milestone approval and continuous reporting to the senior management level - Head of the Océ ColorStream 3000 marketing team and the service centre application team with six employees - Extension of the market position for the Océ ColorStream 3000 family to approx. 40% of the global market share - Product planner and person responsible for the continuous-paper inkjet printers at Océ regarding new developments and the further development of series devices - Responsible for the timely implementation of orders in cooperation with produc-tion, supply chain management, service, local customer project management and the area managers of the regions. The annual production of the Océ ColorStream 3000 series tripled during this time.

  • Physics engineer at the Chair of Applied Solid State Physics, Prof. Dr. Bucher at University of Konstanz, Germany
    Sep 1998 - Jun 2000 · 1 yr 10 mos

    - Scanning electron microscopy - Network administration

  • Chemical laboratory assistant at Schering AG
    Jul 1990 - Sep 1993 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    - Organic preparative synthesis of active ingredients