Nicolai Pingoud

Product Sales Component Services EMEA

Process Management for Material Availability, optimizing the central and global SAP Material Planning tool using agile methods (working in sprints together with IT-developers), specification and testing of improvement measures, suppoting operational department with analysis and trainings, establish interface communication and sprint-repoting

5MW-Platform Industrialization, site development for Chinese market, development of concept for shared manufacturing between European and Chinese plants, definition and coordination of Interfaces between Industrial Planning, Technology, Quality, Supply Chain Management, Sales and Plants, nacelle design review and approval in PDM, capacity and timeline planning, development of an MS Excel capacity balancing tool

Plant-Upgrade and Puls-Line Implementation: developing a Production Pulse-Line for Nacelles with civil works adaptions, creation of functional specifications, preparation of call for bids, lead of technical concept finding phase and supplier selection (transport system, lifting system and civil works), coordination of building site activities, authorities and internal stakeholders (control of all interfaces), conduct management reporting, project management according to PMI-standard, budget responsibility

Implementation of a shop-floor-management system, LeanSixSigma projects for lead time and work-in-progress reduction, moderation of shop-floor meetings and cross- departmental process improvement workshops, control and tracking of internal CIP measures (development of work processes and support construction of own tools and jigs in the lean workshop), development of standards, implementation of 5S, training of managers

Creation of production plans and production orders in SAP PP, secure availability of material in SAP MM, control of stock and coordination of delivery dates with purchase department, updating master data, creation and support of change requests, optimization of material flow and production processes, definition of packing instructions, moderation of weekly shop-floor meetings, development of a cross-plant SAP/Excel-tool for the identification of missing parts and related root cause

Production planning and optimization in accordance with lean production principles in the carbon fiber laminate vertical tails manufacturing with subsequent diploma thesis: implementation of a production Kanban system and shop-floor-management in order to meet (internal) customer demands, implementation of a self-contained rework strategy for the single aisle family (A320), performing a value stream analysis and creating a value stream design

Assistant to project management in a Volkswagen-Group wide logistics and supply chain optimization project (NLK): taking responsibility for a pilot project improving the transport of material from suppliers to the SEAT factory, creating material forecasts, delivery schedules and a monitoring system, conducting weekly evaluations, writing articles for the company newspaper, designing posters and brochures for internal project marketing

Technical internship in order to acquire knowledge about quality assurance and functional testing in the field of electromagnetic compatibility

Technical internship in order to acquire knowledge about metal machining and processing (drilling, grinding, turning, milling and welding) on conventional and CNC-machines

Coordinating customer orders with warehouse stock, preparation of customer proposals, support of customer service (handling complaints and backorders)