About Me
About Me
Strong Strategic Leader.
Goal-Oriented Implementer.
Let's Rock It.
Are you looking for an Interim Manager, someone with leadership strength and strategic competence? Someone who implements goals in a hands-on manner and for whom honesty and empathy are true values? Then let’s talk.
In my work, I focus on company-wide process efficiency and profitability, am an advocate of Lean Manufacturing and Lean Management, and am pragmatic and down-to-earth in implementing Lean elements.
I am a confident, value-oriented, and empathetic leader with strong communication skills, social competence, and intercultural experience.
Profound leadership experience and engagement in the following areas of expertise:
- Strategic and Operational Business Management
- Technical and Economic Plant Management and Executive Management in an International Context
- Complex Production Relocations During Ongoing Business Operations for International Market Leaders
- International Project Management of Strategically Crucial Projects
- Supply Chain Management in Complex International Contexts
- International Interface Management of Production and Distribution
- Comprehensive Methodological Expertise, Process Management, Lean Management
- Successful Development and Implementation of Change Management and Transformation Processes
Qualifications
- Project Management Professional according to PMI (CAPM/PMP)
- Six Sigma Black Belt Lean Master / Lean Expert
- Scrum Master PSM I
- Scrum Product Owner PSPO I
- MBA - Master of Business Administration
Career
Education and Professional Training
MBA – Master of Business Administration
Master’s degree at the University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management Essen FOM
Mining Engineer
(Machine Management and Systems Technology)
Technical University Agricola Bochum
State-Certified Technician
Mining Technical School of WBK in Recklinghausen
Training as a Mining Mechanic
Bergwerk G. Blumenthal, Recklinghausen
I am very proud of my roots in mining. Even more so when I see where I stand today.
André Krings
Interim Executive
I am very proud of my roots in mining. Even more so when I see where I stand today.
André Krings
Interim Executive
Once a miner, always a miner.
My roots are in mining. After training as a mining mechanic, I worked underground and, following further education, was responsible for a mining district with 140 employees as a district foreman. It was hard, dangerous, and hot, a man’s world characterized by camaraderie and fairness. That was my school, which still shapes me today. Afterward, I studied mining engineering – I am a mining engineer and proud of it!
This was followed by leadership positions in the metal, construction machinery, and manufacturing industries, where I gained extensive international leadership experience. My transition into interim management was a very conscious step. Here, I can concretely help companies with their problems on a project-by-project basis – focusing on implementation and visibility of results. The positive feedback from my clients is a great motivation for me and reinforces my decision.
I am proud to have come, literally from the very bottom, from mining, to where I am today. I am proud that I successfully completed my university degree as well as MBA, Lean Master, Six Sigma Black Belt, Scrum Master, and PMI – always while working or during short breaks.
But one thing is certain. I’m always a comrade.
