As the leading global HR solution provider in Asia, X-giants International Human Resources Co., Ltd. was established in 2005. At present, X-giants has more than 1000+ team members located in Shanghai, Hefei, Beijing, Suzhou, Xuzhou, Chongqing, Qingdao, Chengdu, Wuhan, Changchun, Taiyuan, Changsha, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Australia and North America and Germnay. X-giants International provides solutions for mid- to high-end headhunting, RPO, flexible labor, training and consulting projects in 8 hot industries and fields.In the past 10 years, X-giants International has established long-term cooperative relationships with more than 1,000 multinational groups, domestic listed companies, fast-growing companies and non-profit organizations. In 2016, Hefei established the largest RPO outsourcing and training base in the Asia-Pacific region.

As General Manager of Global Castings high volume foundry in Xuzhou, China my main focus was the maximization of the foundry capacity to support the global business development strategy of Global Castings. This required not only the development of a local vision and strategy but also a major mindset and culture change. After about 12 month of tight implementation the foundry’s was able to demonstrate a 70% annual capacity increase with slightly reduced employees. This achievement required the development of a highly efficient organization and LEAN manufacturing processes aside from business culture changes. Substantial development, learning and leadership across all levels in the organization are a prerequisite to enable the transition from a traditional small series casting foundry mindset to an automotive style high performance material flow focused facility.The transformation process was aiming to not only to deliver upon the required KPI levels and targets to achieve annual customer as well as shareholder expectation but to build the solid foundation for sustainable, profitable future.

HCL with its current app. 1200 employees delivered app. 175 Mio EUR. In HCL more than 100 professional engineers dedicated to Design and Development activities. HCL develops, designs, manufactures, assembles and tests the wide range of products covering the aspects of automotive lighting and their core competency in headlamps, rear lamps and lighting modules. Interior Lighting solutions, single function and small lamps are also part of HCL’s product portfolio as well. Currently around 2.4 Mio headlamps and 1.5 Mio rear lamps are being produced to serve customers like VW Group, BWM, Daimler, General Motors Group, Jaguar-Landrover, Geely among others.I dedicated my time to the road map development for a transformation project to lead the local team towards a highly engaged and cost efficient learning organization. In line with global Hella vison and regional business requirements this transformation project kicked off by providing leadership to the extended management team developing their HCL vision, measures of success and a detailed work agenda for the financial year 2015/16. The aim was not only to deliver upon the agreed targets for this financial year but also to build the foundation for sustainable, profitable and highly flexible business model achieving world class process and operations excellence levels in the safest working environment.

General Manager of a Generator Assembly Facility based in Tianjin, China for Electric Power Division. The main scope of this facility is to purchase, plan and assemble generator sets and ship generator set from 7.5 kVA to 900kVA for our main customer base located in the Asia Pacific, Africa and Middle East region. My main focus was the development of the facility and it’s capability to support the retail transformation process. After completion of the umbrella „Teng Fei“ Project the capacity was increased to app. 32000 units single shift annual capacity. In order to entertain this growth aThe development of a highly efficient organizational structure and processes are required.To achieve such significant changes a culture change program became necessary. This program provided guidance and leadership to the entire team to transition from a small series assembly plant to an automotive style high performance assembly facility.The overall aim of this transformation was to develop a sustainable highly efficient assembly facility combined with highest standards of safety, quality and delivery performance.

My scope of responsibility started with the handover of a signed power plant contract and ended after the successful commercial operation and hand over of the finished product to our customer Service team.This team was responsible for the world wide execution of al power plant projects under Caterpillar Motoren or it’s subsidiaries.Within these boundaries all project execution related activities like project management, engineering, construction and site management, procurement, logistics and shipping belong to my responsibility. All project execution related financial and accounting activities were also part of the responsibilities.Strategic planning of our business unit goals as well as Matrix reporting of our key performance indicators and continuous process improvement activities were part of my duties as well as organizational alignment and continuous focus on talent development within the teams were part of my roles and responsibilities.

This position provided leadership to the team of senior Project managers located in Singapore, Peoria and a small core project team in Bangalore (India) out of San Diego, California, USA.The scope of work included the world wide project execution and management of complex, mainly turnkey type, power plant projects for CPGS either with Catapillar Motoren supplied large medium speed engines or SOLAR Turbines gas turbines.In addition to the project financials of all these projects the strategic planning of business unit, the matrix reporting of key performance indicators were also part of my accountability.Continuous process improvement activities were part of my duties as well as organizational alignment and continuous focus on talent development within the teams were part of my roles and responsibilities.

Continuation of Implementing the organizational and operation structures for a 6SIGMA driven organization were a significant portion of this assignment as it was the initial phase of 6SIGMA implementation in Caterpillar.The main focus of this project was to modify and improve the Cat Rental business. In addition to a series of small projects an other main focus area was the customer service support for CIPS with all enabling processes like quotation development, order and fleet management as well as the development of a management system to support these operations. This overall concept covered all areas of potential customer support from simple repair, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance up to full service operation service for the power stations and medium speed engines from Caterpillar Motoren Kiel.

This Management position included the overall profit and loss responsibility for all power plant project executed under Caterpillar Motoren.The total project revenue per was app. 70 Mill. DM. With a core team of app. 10 members we realized this revenue and managed the overall financials of those projects. We would use third party or contract employees to supplement the respective project teams in accordance with the project requirements. This team was responsible for the world wide execution of al power plant projects under Caterpillar Motoren or it’s subsidiaries.The business planning as well as the key performance indicator and matrix reporting were part of the responsibilities.The development of our core team talent as well as the focus on process improvements and organizational alignments to match the business and project requirements belong to the scope of work in this position.

Providing leadership for a team of power plant project managers based in Kiel.This team was responsible for the world wide execution of al power plant projects under Caterpillar Motoren or it’s subsidiaries.In addition to this team leaders responsibilities I was the official substitute of the manager of project management and provided support during business planning cycles and key performance indicator reporting.

The project management of a 70Mw turnkey power station with 10 units of 16CM32 engines located on the Philippines was the major responsibility of this position.The responsibility included aside form the functional contract compliance and timely delivery the full profit and loss responsibility of this 70 Mill DM project. This project delivered within the 14 month timeline and better margins than forecasted during the budgeting period.

This position focused on the development and sales of turnkey power stations with corporate equity combine with third party project financing. The main focus areas were on power plant projects in Peru and India.

The responsibility of this position was to provide leadership, management as well as sales and marketing for the entire Ship repair. It entailed the representation of the organization internally as well as in all external affairs. In addition to this the organizational alignment to meet the changing market requirements and the talent development were part of the job scope.The position required the project development, sales and management the contract development for large scale repair orders including the oversight and leadership. The repair contract development related to commercial and technical terms and conditions including all related negotiations. Functions like open receivable follow up and collection responsibility did belong to this position as well. The detailed planning of the business unit budgets and key performance indicator as well as their reporting were part of the responsibilities.The overall project leadership and the concept development for the major organization realignment of all in the port of Hamburg located facilities and their final merger to the „Blohm and Voss Repair GmbH & Co. KG“ were part of this assignment too.

The technical detailed systems, component design, overall power plant layout and detailed design of diesel engine power stations were the main responsibility of this position.This position was also tasked to develop new and innovative solutions to meet the various specific customer requirements. The hereto-related technical sales support during the project development phase and the support of contract negotiations were part of the job scope. Providing on side commissioning support or failure mode analysis at side in case of specification or design incompliance claims were part of the responsibility as well.In addition internal process optimization as well as solutions focused systems and software development were part of my daily work.

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