Ralf Bischof

Als Lean Engineer verantwortlich für drei Produktionsabteilungen der Business Unit Advanced Refractories am Standort Borken

In this position I was responsible for the Boards-Plant and the Goods Receipt incl. a batching station with overall 45 emloyees. The Boards-Department produce hot-tops, plates, corrugated-boards and tundish lining systems for ingot and contineous casting. The batching station prepare premixes for the refractory-shop and the turbostop-line.

Personnel responsibility for 10 employees. Responsible for order processing and personnel planning as well as construction site planning.

DuBay is a Joint-Venture between DuPont and Bayer (now Lanxess). It is the largest PBT-Plant in the world with an annual capacity of 80.000 tons. In this positition I had two jobs simultaneously: Shift-Coach for one of four production teams and the responsibility for the Supply-Chain-Team of the Company as it's leader. The crossfunctional-teams were structured and organized in a High-Performance-Works-Culture (HPWC). That includes that administrative roles also performed by production people.

Synthomer is one of the world’s major suppliers of latices and speciality emulsion polymers supporting leadership positions in many market segments including coatings, construction, textiles, paper and synthetic latex gloves.