Helmut Kunst

Strategic Purchaser in investment goods (automotive industry)

Business area: Development and production of diesel and gas engines, injection systems, as well as hydraulic components and splitter boxes. Personal responsibilities: Negotiation of offers with regard to price and contractual aspects, awards of contracts in the field of investments in machinery, applications and buildings and regarding assignments to external engineering partners for development projects.

Business area: Buildup of new production facilities with local partners, respectively enlargement and modernization of existing plants in the fields of construction machinery and household appliances in Africa and the Middle East. Personal responsibilities: Acquisition of new partners, contract negotiations, project management, consulting with support from different Liebherr factories, payment processings by L/C’s, etc. (Countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Iran, Ethiopia, ...)

Rehabilitation of 9 residential buildings for "U.S. Army, Europe District" at the NATO military training area in Grafenwoehr in Bavaria. (Contract value: EUR 10 million) Area of ​​Responsibility: construction management, tendering and award of contracts, quality and safety management.Documentation of the project progress by using a specific software of the U.S. Army. Written and oral communication in English with the construction supervision of the U.S. Army.

Assistant teacher for the teaching of German in the faculties business administration and applied physics. Responsibilities: Carrying out the teaching of German. Preparation of exercises with the aim of initiating the students to speak and to communicate as much as possible in German. Assessing the performance of those students who had enrolled for a year abroad at the German partner university.

Specialized in energy technology with focus on industrial marketing. (Interruption of studies due to an accident, 12/2000 to 02/2002)