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Tessenderlo, Vlaanderen, België

Apeldoorn Area, Netherlands

Responsible for the daily management and coordination of plant operations including production, logistics and maintenance while ensuring compliance with all labour, safety, environmental and corporate policies and regulations.

Zonhoven; Belgium

Responsible for the daily management and coordination of plant operations including production, logistics and maintenance while ensuring compliance with all labour, safety, environmental and corporate policies and regulations.

Responsible for the implementation of a major engineering excellence programme within one of the major steel producers worldwide. Reponsible for plants in the U.K ; France; Germany and Holland Responsible for the implementation of continuous improvement programmes and methods within our existing - and new business

Key responsibilities:• Start up and build a new Blom Consultancy GmbH in Germany with local employees and local clients.• Assisting companies to become World Class. The goal is, in a harmonious working environment, to help people accomplish the maximum, with the aim of realising the objectives of the company.• By, together with the customers, making losses visible and through team-oriented improvement, process-oriented organisation and standardising results, measurably higher effectiveness and efficiency of the company processes is realised• Transfer knowledge to organisations and teach them to improve independently and continuously with an hands-on approach.• Assisting companies as a Interim Manager and so create added value through share the knowledge and experience of manufacturing and technology, combined with World Class Manufacturing (WCM). WCM is a combination of improvement tools from TPM, 6-Sigma, Lean and TQM combined with implementation methods and change management and so let the employees grow in the process of continues improvement.Achievements:• Implementation of continuous improvement projects within several plants of Saint-Gobain Isover Deutschland (Germany); Saint-Gobain Sekurit Deutschland (Germany); Campina Deutschland (Germany) and Wienerberger Netherlands and Germany.• Training and education of employees to let them experience that continuous improvement can make persons and organisations higher effective and efficient.• Assisting of the strategic processes from top management to the shop floor (Policy Deployment) within organisations such as Isover and Sekurit.

Key responsibilities:• Assisting companies to become World Class. The goal is, in a harmonious working environment, to help people accomplish the maximum, with the aim of realising the objectives of the company.• By, together with the customers, making losses visible and through team-oriented improvement, process-oriented organisation and standardising results, measurably higher effectiveness and efficiency of the company processes is realised• Transfer knowledge to organisations and teach them to improve independently and continuously with an hands-on approach.• Assisting companies as a Interim Manager and so create added value through share the knowledge and experience of manufacturing and technology, combined with World Class Manufacturing (WCM). WCM is a combination of improvement tools from TPM, 6-Sigma, Lean and TQM combined with implementation methods and change management and so let the employees grow in the process of continues improvement.Achievements:• Implementation of continuous improvement projects within several plants of Campina Netherlands and Campina Belgium; Frieland Food Professional Belgium; Sara Lee International (Barcelona); Heineken Netherlands; Rockwool Roermond, Wienerberger Netherlands and Tiense Suiker Raffinaderij (Belgium).• Training and education of employees to let them experience that continuous improvement can make persons and organisations higher effective and efficient.• Interim job within the production organisation of the Tiense Suiker Raffinaderij (Tienen, Belgium). Result: within a month a productivity increase of 100%!• Assisting of the strategic processes from top management to the shop floor (Policy Deployment) within organisations such as Campina, Wienerberger and Tiense Suiker raffinaderij).

• Organise the activities within the Unit in such a way that the current legal-, budget-, technical-, economic-, HACCP-, BRC- and hygiene goals are being realised.• Realise the activities of a production-unit (120 employees) in such a way that the goals for quality, terms of delivery and efficiency are realised. • Develop and realise saving projects on personal-, technical- and organisation areas.• Organise and realise the dispatch of customers’ complaints in such a way that there is an adequate follow up.• Taking care of personal matters within the unit (education, illness prevention, disciplinary sanctions). • Control of the budget for personal, machine, raw materials and stocks of finished products within the department.

Key Responsibilities:Continuous improvement of the production process of the PVC film production in such a way that the quality-, quantity- and yield goals are being realised.Member and chairman of multi-disciplinary project teams to ensure that the production process is optimized.Achievements:Implementation of Kaizen, Total Product Maintenance and Small group Activities in a 5-shift production unit. Increase productivity and yield on the PVC-film production linesEvaluate customer complaints together with the QA department

Key Responsibilities:Organise, coordinate and realise the activities of the team (22 employees) in such a way that the planned production and budget-, technical-, economic-, HACCP-, BRC- and hygiene goals are being realised.Taking care of personal matters within the team (education, illness prevention, disciplinary sanctions). Achievements:Realise production targets with a mixed group of operators (age, ethnical origin and background)Developed the ability to function effectively as a member of a large and mixed teamGuide and motivate the team members

Education record

Advanced management program

Bachelor, Chemical Engineering/Process Engineering

Bachelor, Chemical Engineering / Process Technology

Activities and Societies: 2006- WCP tools (Lean, SMED, 5S, 6-Sigma, TPM) 2005 Personal Coaching, de Baak, Noordwijk 2004.