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Plant Operations Manager

Plant Operations Manager

Work Experience

• > 20 years International Multidisciplinary Projects / Manufacturing Operations & Sales experience
• > 10 years China experience as Operations General Manager, Project-, Purchasing Manager, Business development
• Lean Manufacturing experienced - always looking for more efficient, smarter solutions

Professional Experience

01/2014 – 09/2015 Sales & Operations Manager China Frencken Mechatronics
• Developed the business by targeting Medical Equipment OEMs - € 4m in new Sales achieved
• Coached local Chinese Sales & Projects teams
• Significantly improved competitiveness of Quotations by smarter, more efficient ways of manufacturing, lean internal processes and proposing redesigns to lower customer’s BOM
• Improved Frencken’s market position in terms of competitive pricing, market perception, service
• My job (and many others) was cancelled after the death of the company’s main shareholder, where the remaining family cut costs globally (letter of proof/reference from Dutch CEO available)


12/2009 – 12/2013 Site & Purchasing Manager China Menzing Engineering

• I set-up the company, organization (100% WOFE – Ltd.)
• Built a dedicated team of SQPE’s (Supplier Quality & Purchasing Engineers)
• Built a highly efficient China Supply Base by searching, selecting and auditing suppliers and perform multi-stage QC checks at each PO and/or production-run (doing it myself!)
• Sourced weldings, sheet-metal & stamping parts, metal-castings, module electro-mechanical assemblies, plastic injection parts, mouldings for our 2 factories in Holland and Czech-Rep.
• 100% multi-stage QC control at supplier! No QC check in our Holland and Czech factories
• 50% of my time spent at suppliers! = hands-on


04/2004 – 10/2009 Operations General Manager China Tecnotion (ex. Philips)
• Set-up the entire company & organization (100% WOFE - Ltd.) : €6m rev., 75 FTEs
• Daily management of Asian based Customers, Operations, Supply Chain, QA, HR, Finance
• Utilized Lean & JIT to maximize product quality yield to 99.2% and cut Inventory + WIP by 40%
• Developed a culture fully focused on customers, Total-Quality and in-time delivery
• Initiated Sales & Promotion activities
• Achieved ISO-9001
• Implemented a new ERP system (Microsoft Axapta)



1999 – 3/2004 Int. Project/Process Manager - China, Holland Twentsche Cable

Based at our China factory: Twentsche Fibre Optics Nanjing • 2001 + 2004

• Led the full Tech-Transfer of Optical Cable manufacturing; $15m project
• Specifying equipment & tooling, acceptance tests at supplier (Nokia-Finland); in charge of installation, commissioning, production start-up, scaling up to full production
• Utilized Kan-Ban, 5S, LEAN throughout the shop-floor and supporting departments
• Trained Production & QA Operators in Cable Manufacturing + QC skills (optical cable & wires)

Based at our Holland factory: Twentsche Kabelfabriek Holland • 1999 + 2000

• Project Managed the set-up a new High-End Cable Extrusion Department; $16m project (XLPE, PVC, PP, PA Extrusion)
• Led the installation and start-up of a new PVC & XLPE compounding installation
• Selected & Trained Manufacturing & QA Operators
• Utilized Kan-Ban, 5S to improve efficiency of product flows


6/1995 – 1/1999 Production Manager (Holland) Emerson Electric

• After a 6 months traineeship:
• Daily management of “Special Products” with 3 production departments + 1 supporting maintenance department working in 3 shifts, ~45 FTEs, ~$5m rev.
• Utilized Lean Manufacturing and improved throughput by 30% by grouping products/processes
• Utilized Pareto analyses to detect, focus on and solve the 20/80 problem areas
• Decreased customer complaints from 11 to 3 per month
• Led the US-to-NL tech-transfer of precision-stamping for NASA battery-lids

Education

Education
2006 – 2012 Master in Business – Manchester Business School – UK
1989 – 1994 BSc Mechanical Engineering – Construction & Production - NL
1983 – 1989 VWO = Academic Grammar School = 6yr university prep school (A-level)

Courses
1995 – 1996 Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma @ Emerson Electric
1997 – 1998 Higher Management - post Graduate Diploma

Skills

Plant Operations
China Operations/New Business/Sales/General Management

Languages

Language ability
English Excellent
German Excellent
Dutch Mother tongue
Mandarin Basic verbal skills


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