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Operations /. Plant manager

Operations /. Plant manager

Work Experience

• Business Unit Director Processing G4S Cash Solutions (Belgium) ’11 – ‘15
P&L Responsibility of a Business Unit
o Plant management of 2 processing sites: objective to implement an automotive structure
o Implementation of flow line process (from push to pull), in line
o Increase TO from 12.9 to 16.4 mio €
o Increase of SBU EBIT from 12.2% to an average of 31.6% over 4 years
• Group Operations Director ASPEL Group ‘07 – ‘11
Acting Plant Manager Eupen & subsequently Aspel VG Plastics in Bocholt
o Plant management of Aspel plant in Bocholt after relocation of approx. 10 mio € of business
from Aspel Eupen to Aspel Bocholt (TO : plant 14 mio €, group total 40 mio €))
o Managed a plant closure within project timing, budget and without customer disruption (closing production facility & transfer of business to 3 other plants) with focus on reducing fixed costs & improving utilization of assets
o Reduced both fixed and variable costs during economic downturn, still achieving the same EBIT
numbers in 2009 as in 2008 despite a significant drop in sales of 25%
o Restructured the Eupen plant
o 2 plants in LCC revitalized to leading industrial suppliers by sourcing the right teams
and by utilizing the group’s experience to its maximum extent for developing young
talents in-house  Both plants are now over performing on their budgets
o Implemented an operational dashboard with 18 KPI’s in all plants, including corrective action
loop & strategic deployment + other key indicators (capacity, team development, ... )
• Group Lean Manufacturing Manager ASPEL Group (plants in BE (3x), Slovakia and Mexico) ‘05 – ‘07
o Guided the start-up and growth phases of Slovakian and Mexican plants; succeeded to get them profitably operating on a leading industrial / automotive level
o Implemented a 5S & TPM system in all plants of the group
o Introduced a full operational cost reporting system, resulting in firm cost reductions and improved control
• Operations Manager TDS-Lot ’04 – ‘05
o Operations, MP&L, Quality, HR & Admin (7 staff, 4 team leaders & 46 operators)
o Improved operations on level of output & capacity  reduced customer downtime, minimized internal PPM & number of special deliveries to customers, limited shortages and special transports, improved the stock-accuracy and significantly reduced customer complaints
o Introduced financial tools for managing shipments of finished goods (yearly saving of €50.000) and for reducing scrap costs (saving of €50.000)
o Successful certification for ISO/TS 16949, VW-Einstufung, VW technical, D-Audit
o Functional support for business development, account management, finance & admin
• European Lean Manager TDS Europe ‘01 – ‘04
o Management responsibility for ‘Lean’ within TDS Europe
o Deployment of strategic ‘Lean’ tools: Blue Sky Events, Value Stream Mapping, …
o Systematic implementation of ‘Lean’ practice in Europe
Achievements
o Named “Supplier of Choice” for Lean Manufacturing by Ford Lean Team
o Cost savings in Europe (Headcount reduction of 139 Heads in 4 plants)
o Supported due diligence assignments (Mackie, Ryder plant, Delphi plant)
• Supplier development engineer Monroe Europe (TAE) ’99 – ‘01
o Technical support of the European purchasing department
o Resolved critical quality & supply problems with suppliers
o Conducted studies & implemented multiple projects, e.g. in/outsourcing of components, management of special projects (Y2K, Supplier rating)
o Performed quality/process audits at suppliers in Europe: Czech Rep., Spain, France, Turkey, …
Achievements
o Implementation & maintenance of a European supplier rating system
o Cost reduction projects with suppliers (€ 1,000,000 per year)
• Supervisor Tubing Monroe St-Truiden plant (TAE) ’98 – ‘99
o Supervisor at Tubing (87 operators in 3 shifts)
o Completed the integration of the “tubing” and “assembly” departments (flow lines)
• TQM Facilitator Monroe St-Truiden plant (TAE) ’95 – ‘98
o Implementation of Total Quality Management
o Implementation of Kaizen events & ‘Kanban’ project methodology
o Project manager ISO 9000 – certification achieved end 1996
• Process Engineer Monroe St-Truiden plant (TAE) ’94 – ‘95
o Design/Development responsibility, including purchasing of new tools & equipment
• Operations Manager AW Chapman – Houthalen ‘91 – ‘94
o Responsible for production (assembly), quality, maintenance & human resources
o Successfully managed operations from launch to full volume production, starting from scratch (empty building)
o Achieved Q1-certification (Ford)
o 2.5 years of successful operations without major product delivery or quality issues
• Product design Engineer Ford Genk Special Vehicle Options ’90 – ‘92
• Test engineer Ford Lommel ’88 – ‘90
o Test engineer in the brake & performance group
o Development and implementation of an automatic data registration & processing system
o Homologation of special vehicles

Education

• Industrial Engineering degree in Electro-mechanics (KIH Limburg – completed “cum laude”) ‘84 – ‘88

Other professional training & education
• Legal Training & certificate for supervisory staff in the guarding sector Belgium– Type A 2013
(Law “Toback for guarding sector – 100 hrs + examinations at Selor)
• Certificate “Preventing Bribery and corruption – complying with the UK Bribery Act 2010 ’12-2011
• Insight Via introspection to a more effective team -personal & team profile evaluation July 2008
• Harvard Business School – Executive Education (Boston, US ) July 15-20
Driving Corporate Performance – 6 Day Management training based on case studies 2007
• Management coaching Personal management coaching (BCT) Apr 05
• Global 8D Problem solving (Internal TDS) Apr 05
• Internal Auditor Auditing of procedures & processes (Internal TDS) May 03
• Lean 6-months Hands-on training & implementation of lean manufacturing using the Toyota Production system (LMR) Apr 02
• Strategic tools: Value stream mapping, Blue Sky, Kaizen…
• Stability tools: 5S, Standardised Work, TPM, Quick changeover…
• JIT tools: Kanban, market place, load levelling, …
• Quality tools: Poka Yoke, Andon, Full work system, …
• 8D Problem Solving Problem solving (by Simons-White – internal TAE) Nov 99
• Kaizen-Facilitator Lean Manufacturing (Growth – internal TAE) June 96
• Quality tools: Poka Yoke, Andon, Full work system, …
• Kaizen Structure with Kaizen events (Tubing, Stamping & Packing)
• Leading/coaching of events
• Facilitator (TQM) 5 Day facilitator training MRA in Luton (London, UK) Jan 96
• Roles within a team
• Train the trainer
• Continuous improvement techniques
• Train-the-trainer Internal education within TAE June 95
• Time & method CKZ Antwerp (16 training days with practical examples) Oct –94

Skills

Operations, plant or Businuss unit management
Bringing a poor running operation to an operational good level

Languages

Languages Speaking Reading Writing
Dutch Mother tongue Mother tongue Mother tongue
French Fluent Fluent Good
English Fluent Fluent Good
German Fluent Good Good
Spanish Notes Notes
Slovak Basic Notes


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