Christoph Watzal

- Responsible for the maintenance department for two different production plants - Development and implementation of a sustainable digitalization strategy for preventive maintenance and more efficient turnaround planning - Development of a data-supported evaluation of maintenance accounting for transparent cost tracking of individual production processes - Planning and realization of extensive capacity expansions of production processes

- Initiate, plan, organize and control maintenance activities in constant compliance with relevant legal regulations in two production plants. - Develop digital, measurement-based maintenance strategies to increase plant availability. - Lead and organize the mechanics department and its strategic personnel development.

- Expansion of online quality assurance in production processes, as well as development of modern validation concepts for the creation of Certificate of Analysis - Strategic development of the quality assurance department (8 employees) --> Upskilling employees in the optimization of measurement- and modern analysis methods --> Organization of departmental expenses - Digitization of the quality assurance department in order to display all analysis results and methods on a LIMS, production system and SAP

- Responsible for the development of online quality assurance in production processes at the entire Frankfurt am Main location - Coordination of projects to increase occupational safety in production facilities and logistics - Development of KPIs for the control of the production plant with the help of MS Office applications, which report to the top management - Creation of a heat exchanger network in the methane chlorination department (pinch analysis)

Development of an ecological decaffeination process for coffee beans without organic solvents

Digitization of incoming inspection, precious metal quantification and warehouse management for large-scale precious metal recovery based on the company's internal rules of LEAN management

- Development and validation of various decomposition methods for metal compounds and plastics - Execution of contract analyzes with: AAS, ICP-MS, HPLC, GC, NMR, TGA and XPS analyzes

- Study model: Study plus job - Design of a pyrolysis plant (20kt HDPE supply per year) for the production of ethene from HDPE waste in cooperation with TU Darmstadt and School of Mines & Technology South Dakota

Teaching assistant for several years in inorganic chemistry I, II and statistics I