CCI AG Switzerland
Context:
- Project Director with lead of up to 14 direct project managers
- Deputy Nuclear Services: Technical and disciplinary head of various departments with about 140 employees and various subcontractors
- Resolve main problems: Main problem: Company in Switzerland (Subsidiary of headquarter based in Los Angeles/USA) needs urgently to adapt the tremendous increase of sales in different Nuclear departments.
- Lead of large Nuclear EPC projects (LSTK)
- Reorganize organizational structure of departments
- Interviews with job seekers to fill departments with qualified people
- Establish proper communication within departments
- Establish regular progress meetings with all departments to follow up progress (technical, commercial and operational)
- Lead proposal and contracts review meetings
- Full P/L responsibility
- Resolve issues with quality and performance of subcontractors
- Develop back up plan for external resources on construction sites
- Develop plan to accomplish all installations on construction sites (manpower)
- Put all projects back on track
Realizations/ Activities:
- Following main areas: Strainer (complex filter systems for ECCS), fuel storage racks, refurbishment, piping, vessels, turbines, heat exchangers, valves.
- Full responsibility of Nuclear projects in the Nuclear Service from proposal to commissioning
- Negotiations with customers for technical or commercial details
- Coordination of the tasks between internal and external departments (construction, calculation, QM, purchasing and fabrication)
- Monitoring and tracking costs and time schedule
- Kick-off meetings all over the world
- Problem solver all over the world
- Directly responsible for all project related information
- Training of my team and associated departments (technical and commercial)
- Capacity planning for the Nuclear Service (all departments)
- Optimization of the production of our main sub suppliers (lead time could be reduced up to 50{be9950c9703f1ee3f67f79e564b725b0d7024538a678c8b77843f90726a75a4e})
- All projects have been finished to the highest satisfaction of our customers (without delays and without any liquidated damages)
- Reference to customers worldwide, a few are listed hereby: AEP (USA) / APS (USA) / ANO (USA) / AREVA (France) / ESKOM (South-Africa) / TOSHIBA (Japan) / Tokyo Electric
- Full P and L responsibility
- Technical and commercial contract review and approval
- Daily problem resolving
Results:
- Restructuring of all departments inside and outside accomplished.
- Sufficient manpower internal available.
- Powered up efficiency of all departments
- With more manpower in engineering we could develop more efficient and cost saving strainers
- Established regular daily project review meetings with strong proactive action plans to meet our company’s objectives.
- Risk assessment of external production resources (worst case scenario)
- Organized very well working pool of qualified nuclear resources worldwide to accomplish all projects
- All projects in budget and time back on track
- Process improvement of production of external suppliers successfully analysed and established
- Production back up plan developed with additional resources of suppliers in Switzerland and in Germany (to avoid worst case scenario)
- Consolidated business relationships between all international clients
- Training of managers successfully accomplished
- Annual stable increase of sales and profit margin