Matthias Heyder

Expirianced Engineering Manager

Greater Erfurt Area

About

Personal Success Strategy: o Flexibility to continuously adjust the business to the changing environment o Lean structures with high-speed information flow through all departments o Planning & Controlling to identify problems before they become apparent o Hands on understanding of processes, logistics and customer needs o Teamwork to get the best out of our most valuable resources o Trust and Challenges to motivate my teams Specialties: o Rail Signaling and safety principles, standards and products o Lean manufacturing methods and logistic concepts o Schematic Circuit Design, CAD, Engineering Processes and Tool Chains o SAP, Product Life Cycle Management, UNIX (Solaris and HP), Windows, Turbo Pascal, MATLAB, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point o Transmissions standards and technologies (SDH and PDH), Products and Measurement Equipment

Experience

  • Head of Industrial Engineering at Hitachi Rail
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

    No change in position, but the railway activities of Thales got sold to Hitachi, which I am very excited about. Finally, I work in a company where railway industry belongs to it´s core core buisiness.

  • Thales (20 yrs 8 mos)
    • Head of Industial Engineering
      Jan 2004 - Aug 2024 · 20 yrs 8 mos

    • Industrial Director Business Line TRSS (HQ Paris Acting)
      Oct 2007 - Mar 2008 · 6 mos

      o Evaluation of several international Industrial Companies as preparation for Merger and Acquisition decisions o Harmonizing Series Production Test Strategy within Thales Business Line Ground Transportation

  • Alcatel-Lucent (5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Industrialization Manager (Germany)
      Sep 2002 - Jan 2004 · 1 yr 5 mos

      o Introduction of Industrialization Process (Manufacturing, Commissioning, Test, Application Engineering) in Business Line o Introduction of SAP Lot Size Optimization based on mathematical optimization calculation o Project Management of Rump-up of Production for several Products

    • Product Line Manager, Plano, TX, USA
      Aug 2001 - Sep 2002 · 1 yr 2 mos

      o P&L responsibility for ETSI products deployed in US (revenue: 40 Mio US$/year) o Technical responsibility for ETSI standard based products (release planning and deployment)for ETSI Products (European Telecom Standard) being sold in US o Creating/improvement of processes related to those products, such as Repair & Return or Ordering o Implementing US standards on ETSI products o Sales and Business Development Support (E.g. tenders)

    • System Engineer in Program Management Plano, TX, USA
      Sep 2000 - Aug 2001 · 1 yr

      o Technical and commercial Program Management o Technical support for other departments like Services o Creation of quotes for Telecommunication Networks o Interface to Development and Logistics based in Germany

  • Science Assistant at TU Ilmenau
    Feb 1998 - Aug 1998 · 7 mos

    Investigations in analog-digital measurement according to the delta-sigma-principle

  • Electronic Skilled Worker at Herberg Persopnal Leasing
    Sep 1991 - Sep 1995 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    08/95-12/95 Siemens Inc., Erlangen o Service of LAN-s & FDDI of customers like Banks and Insurance Company’s 1992-94: 6-8 weeks/year Philips Communications Industry Inc., Nuremberg o Construct mobile telephone stations and transmissions systems (PDH, SDH) 10/93-04/94 German Telecom Inc., Erfurt; Engineer Practical o Program of a part of an database (D-Base, Turbo-Pascal) 1991: 8 weeks Triumpf Adler Inc., Nuremberg; Electronic Skilled Worker o Testing, repairing of electronic circuits of laptops