AionaCast Management:
Vita Jürgen Pohl
Professional Experience
  
12.´09 – until today



06.´07 – 11.´09		 AionaCast Consulting GmbH
Associate and Managing director
Focuses: customer acquisition and network development

MWK Maulbronn GmbH, Maulbronn
(a Gerorgsmarienhuette group company)
Managing director (technology, manufacturing and sales)

Production of aluminium casting with machining and assembling for the automotive and non-automotive industry
- sand casting (furan resin)
- die-casting (tilting and low pressure casting)
- high pressure die-casting (630-2,000t machines)

Up to 400 employees and a turnover amounting to 46 Mio€ at the Maulbronn location

Focuses:
- cost cutting through efficiency enhancement
- creating transparency
- development of an extensive restructuring plan
- reorientation of the production and on the market
 
01.´06 – 05.´07 MAHLE Brockhaus GmbH, Plettenberg
Director operations as chief executive
Production of connecting rods and camshafts in drop-forging procedure
Responsible for up to 550 employees
 
10.´03 – 12.´05 MAHLE GmbH, Markgroeningen
Segment manager as chief executive
Production of aluminium engine blocks in low pressure casting
Responsible for the factory sections maintenance, tool construction and melting shop
Responsible for up to 500 employees
responsible from production planning to delivery, incl. customer contact

- Troubleshooting für die Produktionssteigerung 
- Turnaround Management  
- liquidation of the engine block production area
 
01.´01 - 09.´03 DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart
Team manager
production of aluminium cylinder heads in die-casting procedure
Responsible for up to 250 employees

- development and planning of new projects
- cooperation in the planning team for the expansion and reconstruction of the foundry with a three-digit million amount to be invested
 
09.´97 - 12.´00 ATS Stahlschmidt & Maiworm GmbH, Werdohl
Parent company TSW South Africa
production of aluminium wheels
400 employees at the Werdohl location; group: 2,000
 

09.´97 - 02.´99

Project Engineer, International Affairs
establishment of a production site in India
planning of a low pressure foundry in Poland
 

03.´99 - 12.´00

Manager casting shop and projects (low pressure casting)
Responsible for 150 employees
Restructuring of the complete foundry and melting shop
 
09.´94 – 08.´97 Druckgusswerk Mössner GmbH (since 1999 +GF+), Werdohl
Production of aluminium die-castings for the automotive industry,
400 employees at the Werdohl location
 

09.´94 - 09.´96

Project engineer
Responsible for the planning, acquisition and commissioning of production plants, trouble shooting

09.´96 - 08.´97

Management of a production field within the foundry with 630-900t
high pressure die-cast machines, responsible for 80 employees

Academic Education
  
  Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg Field of study: Foundry technology

Subject of Diploma work:
“Surface reactions of a nickel-base superalloy, performed at the Thyssen Feingusswerk Bochum”
Degree: Graduate Engineer for Foundry Technology

School Education
  
08.´88 - 06.´89 Technical College Bochum
Graduation: Prerequisite for admission to upper secondary vocational school

Skilled Work
  
02.´88 - 05.´88 Patternmaker at the Stahlwerke Bochum AG

Professional Training		  
09.´84 - 01.´88 Training as a patternmaker at the Stahlwerke Bochum AG
Graduation: Patternmaker
born in 1968