Thomas Geipel

• Being virtual plant manager for 3rd parties plants globally • Developing and presenting capital projects to stakeholders to increase capacities or improve 3rd party process units • Auditing the 3rd parties on quality and HSSE processes on a periodic basis, implementing corrective actions • Focal point for external and internal partners, coordinating trouble shooting and project work • Managing introduction of new plants into the internal supply network • Overseeing plant trials for new products

• Defining and Implementing the procurement strategy for raw materials and purchased components supporting the fuels additives business portfolio • Leading negotiations of raw material contracts, • Establishing and managing multilevel relationships internally and externally • Responsibility for spent of raw materials of 100 MUSD/year • Working remotely in a global team

• Troubleshooting of daily manufacturing issues • Mass balance of ingoing and outgoing materials of production units • Stewardship of KPIs, monitoring the performance • Developing projects to improve performance and reliability of production units • Conducting Root cause analysis of non-conformances and implementation actions to prevent reoccurrence • Global focal point of internal company queries related to the production unit

Degree Programme - Chemical Process Engineering Diploma Thesis Optimization of manufacturing of monoglyceride via batch process