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---- Abt Cont --------- Dr. Siegfried Rainer and Mr. Rolf Blume-------------
One of the leading auto / truck parts manufacturer...
Automotive division and Rubber division
Automotive - Powertrain , Chasis and Saftey
• Chassis & Safety
• Powertrain
• Interior
• Passenger car & Light Truck Tires
• Commercial Vehicle Tires
• ContiTech
Rubber Group – Tires for car, trucks, bikes, for industry,

Its a rubber compound mixing process - where elastomers , carbon black , silica and other ingredients get mixed for tyre manufacturing

---------------MOTIVATION ------------ From career point of view-----
- I am already worked in Korea for over 4.5 years , i have gained very good insights about the customers in korea and Asian region. At this point of time i want to leverage that experience and bring it back to Germany

- Continental being one of largest automotive part manufacturing company in Europe and has a good standing in Europe and outside europe. Having worked in automotive sector before, I wish to work again in a German automotive sector and hence conti. Also I have work exp of working in large multicultural companies like Samsung, Siemens, SK etc.. so i settling down in Conti work force should be quite seamless. So I can bring a lot to the table for continental with my work experience of working in different cultures and work envirornment and especially in the manufacturing sector

- I have a very GOOD FRIEND working for conti in Germ.. He has give very positive feedback about the company, so this is extremely encouraging me that the company i wish to join is already recommended by a good friend of mine..

- Having studied and worked in Germany before, I feel very comfortable settling back in
German work environment. I can also speak the language so it makes life a lot easier.

---- From Personal Point of view----

- Me and wife plan to stay in Germany for probably the rest of our lives, we have been married for over 3 years now and we plan to raise a family ..and we plan to do that in Europe

- We both can speak German we she is also quite familiar with German working style and culture so us to fit back in German work culture and environment is quite easy and seamless

- I have very close friends and family members staying in Germany and Austria.. So you know we already have the social circle to rely on.. we are coming into a very known environment.

-----------------EXPERIENCE --- Dr. Siegfried Rainer and Mr. Rolf Blume-------------------

- I have over 10.5 years of work experience with Majority of my of experience in the Manufacturing Industry and Industrial automation as a System Integrator. I have worked In different sectors like SOLAR with Solarworld AG, AUTOMOTIVE , ELECTRONICS, Oil and Energy and bit of it Semiconductors- But mainly in DISCRETE manufacturing. Majority of exp in MES but also in Equipment integration and business layer intergration

--Focus on Project Leader ----
- Currently I work as Sr. IT MES consultant and PROJECT MANAGER Manufacturing Solutions with Samsung... I am the PROJECT LEADER of team of 15-members. ( its a group of multicultural people , distributed in diff geographic locations..). I Handle both INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL PROJECTS. My work as Project Leader in SCOPING OF THE PROJECT and then MARSHALING AND HANDLING RESOURCES in my team, CREATE PROJECT PLAN, PROJECT REPORTING to the higher management, Any change request that happen or conflicts that happen , resolving those conflicts and reporting them.

- I have a MESA certification for MES/MOM methodologies – So I CONSULT the production sites and line managers about the “BEST PRACTICES OF MANUFACTURING SOLUTION” according to MESA and ISA-95 standards. Giving Demo/Workshops/Creating DOCUMENTATION about these BEST PRACTICES to different Production sites. – which involves Organizing and STRUCTURING the teams , training , CREATING USER MANUALS, ADMINISTRATION GUIDES etc.
OPTIONAL : (Eg : Following Open standards eg: B2MML using XML etc.. eg: master data management best practices. User principles of SOA, standardized B2MML, Business process mgmt and ESB for integration , Master Data managent (MDM ) )

- CONSULT the business departments to OPTIMIZE and IMPROVE their business process for different production plants. Also CONSULTING on their IT ARCHITECTURE and IMPROVING their legacy existing arch. Eg: (Trying to move MES to cloud based MES, using concepts of big-data for MES, real time analytic etc.. ) . SO i am PROJECT LEAD FOR both DOMESTIC and INTERNATIONAL Projects and ensure smooth ROLLOUT and EXECUTION of our solutions in different production sites. So this means a LOT OF TRAVELLING to DIFFERENT CUSTOMER SITES and PRODUCTION PLANTS

- One of the very important task is im responsible for STANDARDIZATION our SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE for all our global production plants. My efforts are concerned towards creating a harmonized multi-site solution based on a generic MES template to Integrate different sites . SAMSUNG HAS 28 PRODUCTION SITES and they use legacy system. So this includes creating ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS, BUSINESS PROPOSALS,. The proposed solutions fits their IT landscape and business process . So migrating those legacy systems to new MES system. We have federated architecture of MES with HQ controlling all sites.




- I’m responsible for Providing 2nd and 3rd level , SUPPORT to our customers in different Production sites. Development, Deployment and MAINTAINING the Solution which is developed by my teas. Resolving CUSTOMER ISSUES and problems, or any new change requests that happen. So I am their SPOC or interface between Customers and Product Engineering teams or Escalation Manager for shop floor personnel and line manager. and then after i understand their problem, i route to the concerned department which is responsible to solve it. in short the entire " APPLICATION Management"

- Setting up a CLEAR COMMUNICATION CHANNEL between different departments like Product Engineering teams, SHOP-FLOOR PERSONEL USING THE SOLUTION, IT INFRASTRUCTURE TEAMS, Business Teams which is ERP , SCM and CRM Teams .Technical COLLABORATION with different Subject Matter Experts, OEM vendors, Suppliers Also with production line engineers ,departments like Production team , planning teams, supply chain team, logistics and packaging team, Sales team getting their requirements and prioritizing them.

- I have done VERTICAL INTEGRATION of Solutions in the Manufacturing industry with Business Layer, CRM, Logistics, SCM and PLM typically SAP integration, EAI (Enterprise application eg: Tibco rendevouz), BPM and BRM. CIM and EES (Equipment engineering system) applications

- One my important roles is to expand the SAMSUNG portfolio for MES, by looking at new potential industries like Steel and Rolling Mills, Solar industry and leverage the MES expertise of Samsung and Miracom products. Typically in Vertical Integration and Production Optimization ( eg : SPC, APC, Predictive maintainence etc..)

-REQUIREMENT ELICITATION from the our global and local sites and implementing those changes according to the priority.Testing the MES solution in-house (different types of testing) and then final DEPLOYMENT and COMMISSIONING of SOLUTION.

----TALKING ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGIES I HAVE WORKED ON ---
- Since I have technical background I often Training the IT team about best practices eg (QA, SVN etc..)/ , releasing documents to Development teams, training manuals, coaching the Maintenance managers in the production line. SO I HAVE WORKED ON MES SOLUTIONS BASED ON C#, JAVA.. I have also worked with several databases like Oracle, MS-SQL, MYSQL, POSTGRES, Business Layer, SAP R3, Netweaver, Microsoft Navison

- Created Generic/modular MES covering Quality Management, Labor management , Process Management , Product Tracking and Tracing , Data acquisition , Resource Management (recipes) ,Quality Management Performance analysis, Work In progress (WIP) , Material management Handing Production management , Production planning



PROJECT MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY ---
- I try and lead by example for my team members
- I like clear communication at all times between all my team members located locally and internationally.
- I like to give autonomy and complete responsibility to my team members,
- I like open discussion sessions, brain storming sessions so that everyone in the team can put any ideas they have on the table and then we as a team the best idea or strategy to implement solution which best fits customers needs.

---------------- WORK WITH MES VENDORS --------
- I have worked with several MES vendors like - Rockwell, Siemens Simatic IT , ,CamLine... etc..Created

-- The idea was to increase productivity, lower the production cost , decrease the inventory , increase OEE ,

- Provide EMI and BI solutions for Production manager and Stakeholders respectively

------------- Standardization benefits of MES ----------
lowers cost of maintaning the IT systems, Improving quality control , Improving better visibility to shop floor activities(Real-time) , faster product development and delivery to market , improving OEE , Better collaboration , standarization of reporting, reduces Total cost of owernship (TCO) by connecting users, content and enterprise applications
eg:reduce cycle time and receipt of good in SCM

--------Integration mechanism --------
- Interface centeric - using EAI tools
use SOA and ESB together or Manufacturing service bus with MDM
- Data centric approach - using ETL model
- Model centric - Using Business Process Management using Business Rules Modelling
SPC - statistical Process control - infrastructure tool for Production control quality in
Semiconductor industry.
SPC allows you to predict tool trends like - when the machine is due for maintanence , tools wear

------------------QUESTIONS for CON-----------------
- I wanted to understand a little better about the Mixing management system.(MMS). ? So is this in discrete or Process manufacturing?
- I understand there are several divisions - This is in Automotive division and further in Powertrain , chasis , interior, engineering. This position is for which division ?
- I assume conti has several production plans – does conti already have standardized the production plants ?
-- Training program within regarding their existing process and products ?
-- last question – Travelling – where all does it involve travelling to ?





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Senior IT Consultant Manufacturing (m/f)(Job ID: 225413)

Description

As Consultant for MMS (Mixing Management System) in a growing international team in the area of Manufacturing in IT Tires you work together with all plants worldwide. Your taks in detail:
• Create architectural concepts for the company wide standardization of our Mixing Management System (MMS).
• Support and coordinate development and maintenance tasks
• Manage external service providers and suppliers including technical coordination
• Consult business departments to optimize mixing processes in using MMS
• Support in productive MMS applications, consult and execution of system improvements
• Ensures communication with the IT departments (Shopfloor-MES, Quality systems, SAP systems und local plant IT), Engineering and internal customers in an international environment
• Project lead for internal projects or project parts and worldwide roll outs in the plants
• Define and document "Best Practices" to achieve the goals for cost and quality by the usage of MMS
Requirements

• Academic degree in information technology, natural science or related fields
• Several years experience in mentioned position or practical job experience as IT consultant in an industrial enterprise
• Expert knowledge in project management
• Intermediate database knowledge (SQL, MS SQL)
• Intermediate programming skills (C#, Java, Delphi)
• English expert language skills required, German or other language intermediate skills helpful
• Analytical and strategic thinking
• Independent working style
• Clear and open communication and assertiveness
• Intercultural Sensivity
• Flexibility, commitment and ability to work in teams
• Willingness to travel (approx. 40%, world-wide)
Ready to drive with Continental? Take the first step and fill in the online application. Your contact partner: Continental AG, Susann Bösl, Recruiting Center.