Dr. René Müller

Temporary assignment as Plant Quality Manager to recover the Quality and HSE agenda and performance of a newly build and operating manufacturing plant at risk in Brazil. Leading a team of 35 Quality team members, 3 shift, 24/6 operation, regaining customer trust, reducing defect escapements practically to zero, boosting the team moral and collaboration as well as company-wide focus on HSE.

Developing and managing the 2013/2016 Global Quality Tactical Plan Program and leading company-wide or-ganizational change projects with global cross-functional teams focusing on new technology & new product de-velopment and aftersales merger including leading company-wide Plant Quality Assessments, System and Pro-cess audit schemes with a team of 3 Quality Managers and the power of attorney for the 4 legal Spanish entities.

Leading a team of 4 quality managers and being responsible for Operational Quality of the 12 global manufacturing sites in Canada, China, Denmark, India, Poland, Spain and USA with special oversight on 5 European & Indian plants.

Building and leading the Quality and Safety organization for the European & Indian Business Area with 6 blade manufacturing plants in Spain, Denmark, Poland and India and headquarter in Madrid with about 2000 employees in the region

Creating and leading the departments with up to 18 team members and the coordination with other global BP Solar plants. Managing a portfolio of 140 improvement projects per year with a 91% success rate and implementing a statisti-cal process control system within one year including all production related personnel.

Preparing the Annual Engineering Plan and its elaboration process for two plants and assuring the correct and safe functioning of all its installations according to the BP Integrity Management Safety Standard for Installations and Machines and such avoiding accidents. Managing by influence a multidisciplinary team of department heads and achieving to be the first country to finalize the implementation of the safety standard.

Recovering and leading two brown-field solar cell production projects (€50MM each, 200.000 man-hours, worth €150MM product cost), reorganizing the projects, motivating the

Creating a new KPI driven and business process oriented quality management system, emphasizing the ac-countabilities of all departments and obtaining its ISO9001 certification within 6 months. Paying attention espe-cially to management of change and continuous improvement efforts and fostering the new quality culture.

Coordinating the ramp-up of the solar cell production site (€90MM product cost and €150MM turnover) and managing the change to a Lean production culture, achieving very aggressive production targets in order to maintain BP Solar Group’s faith in Madrid.

Leading the decommissioning of the solar cell production site at Alcobendas (€22MM).

A turnkey project and conversion of a micro-electronics factory into a solar cell production facility (€125MM, 650.000 man-hours, 35.000m2 building and 1.300.000m2 land). Pulling to-gether the project and getting it out of a critical situation. Finishing the project on schedule and within budget. Focusing on people and involving all project team members.

Leading a high-tech defence project which represented 85% of the company’s turnover with intensive subcon-tracting to multinational companies (80%), licensee and international client relationships (€30MM). Creating and leading the areas of production, logistics, quality, safety and engineering, achieving civil and mili-tary quality certifications, being the first company within a multinational consortium fulfilling the delivery plan. Preparing feasibility studies and acquiring new projects.

Leading the departments with 3 and 15 team members respectively, producing 24h/7days (€30MM product cost and €50MM turnover).

Leading a €6MM brown-field project to expand the high efficiency solar cells production facility.

Marketing responsible of the Institute for all transport applications and heading the network of all railway activities of the whole Fraunhofer Society. Managing a client portfolio and representing the Society and Institute on exhibitions, congresses and conferences. Leading in parallel a portfolio of industrial R&D projects of electro-optical measurement systems, ranging €100k - €1M, from project acquisition, studies, developments and tests, industrial pre-series to hand-over for client serial production.

Leading a €5MM green field project building a Solar Furnace for high temperature applications.

Materials, Nonlinear Optics

Microscopy, Optics, Laser physics