Laupheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Globally oriented, visionary, and strategic engineering professional skilled in the design and transformation of business processes and change management. In-depth expertise in engineering, maintenance, managing large capital projects and site development in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry. 20+ years’ experience with a proven track record of turning strategy into results, leading change, and adding value by combining innovation, integrity, and strong business acumen with an entrepreneurial mindset. An inspirational leader who makes things happen by creating a culture of empowerment and ownership to form high performing organizations and teams.
• Lean transformation and business process optimization awarded McKinsey‘s transformation of the year and EY Entrepreneur of the year leading to improvements up to 50 % in general and 65 % in maintenance • Transformation of engineering and maintenance organization striving for excellence – reduction of unplanned downtime by > 30 % and keeping cost flat while growing the equipment pool by 30% within 3 years • Pushing IIoT and Digitalization from use-cases to integrated strategy moving from isolated automation systems to connected landscape and micro-services • Drive Rentschler’s global expansion strategy, global and local site development, and investment project execution • Chair of Capex Committee and global CapEx coordination • Foster Sustainability, Environment, Health, and Safety – reducing accident frequency rate by 12 % • Leading Ecovadis certification. Awarded Silver medal at first attempt • Operation of HVAC, Utilities, Automation, Maintenance, Qualification, shut-down planning • Head of Rentschler’s crisis intervention team • Member of Company Leadership Team directly reporting to the CEO with general power of attorney
Global accountability • Global and local engineering governance for 3 German and 9 international sites. Transforming individual sites into an operational network of > 500 engineers within the Human Pharma Supply organization • Development of global CapEx management with ~250 mill. € annual budget • One of four global engineering core team members, defining Boehringer Ingelheim’s cross divisional global engineering strategy Local accountability • HVAC, clean Utilities, Automation and Serialization, technical Compliance, Maintenance, and shut-down planning for BI’s largest production site • Safety Champion – Steering and harmonizing occupational-safety improvements for 4.000 employees
Successful transformation of BI’s largest Pharma and Chemical production organization with 4.000 employees into 7 focused factories and 4 service units. This approach has been immediately copied by BI’s Biopharma Organization.
Expat assignment as Director Infrastructure • HVAC, Plant & Civil Engineering, clean & industrial Utilities, Automation, Maintenance, Security & Site Services • Functional cost > 34 mill. $ Major results • Significant improvement of maintenance performance and equipment uptime • Reduction of spare parts cost by > 35% • Resolving multiple serious key equipment performance issues • Lead task force for final commissioning and qualification of high containment operations (HCO) facility (OEL4) after severe issues causing major delays Global roles and results: • Worldwide Engineering & Infrastructure strategy and organizational structure development across all business units • Peer Review of multiple key investment projects (>10 mill. €) for readiness for board decision • Global engineering team member maintenance
Associate professor for mechanical and thermal process engineering
Process engineer for P&ID’s, equipment design/specification and commissioning • Lead engineer qualification of an aseptic blood plasma fractionation facility. Aventis Vienna, Austria • Lead Engineer, start-up, commissioning, and validation of a multi-purpose GMP facility. SKW-Trostberg, Germany