Timo Lopau

Director Quality Management

Barsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

About

Experience

  • GEA Group (Full-time · 8 yrs 3 mos)
    • Director Quality Management
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

      - Professional and disciplinary leadership of ten employees - Responsible for quality management at the production site Büchen (approx. 500 employees) - Continuous development of the quality management strategy - Customer Claim Management - Supplier Management, Qualification and Audits - Internal Audit Management - Deputy Head of QHSE (23 employees) - Certification of ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, PED, ATEX, IECEx, CCCEx - Integrated Management System - Internal Claim Management

    • Global QHSE - Manager Supplier Qualification
      Nov 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

      - Central manager for the global and group-wide quality supplier qualification - Management of cross-location and international change projects - Development of global processes, standards and a supplier quality dashboard - Cooperation with international executives

    • Quality Engineer
      Apr 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      - Professional leadership of internal and external auditors - Coordination and execution of internal and supplier audits - Supplier qualification and development - Management of quality projects using six sigma methods - Organization and preparation of certification audits to the integrated management system - ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 80079-34, Pressure equipment directive PED 2014/68/EU

  • Master Thesis - Quality Management at Institut für Qualitäts- und Zuverlässigkeitsmanagement GmbH
    Oct 2017 - Mar 2018 · 6 mos

    - Advising of an automotive OEM in relation to VDA standard field failure analysis and IATF 16949

  • Working Student - Quality Management at Vorwerk Gruppe
    May 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

    - Definition, execution and analysis of various reliability and robustness tests as part of a product development process - Calculation of the product lifetime and probability of failure with weibul analysis

  • Bachelor Thesis - Quality Management at GEA Group
    Sep 2014 - Mar 2015 · 7 mos

    - Development and programming of a week-based capacity and test plan for the measurement department with MS Access

  • Trainee - Quality Management at Daimler AG
    Feb 2014 - Aug 2014 · 7 mos

    - Management of a production process approval for a new product - Determination of correction values for injection molding tools including proof of effectiveness - Supervision of the commissioning of an optical measuring machine - Implementation and organization of measuring equipment and process capability analyzes (Minitab) - Preparation of the management report on the quality level, including definition of key areas of action