Reint is a business-oriented engineer, driven by change, and he is keen to support his customers’ operations, supply chain and business development.
Reint believes in passion and talent, and he is convinced that pleasure and result go hand in hand, also in a business environment.
Reint supports his customers to create a proactive professional environment, where ownership can be taken and where open collaboration is promoted, in order to achieve tangible results.
Reint has considerable professional expertise and has an in-depth academic knowledge of the business offers he makes. He is an industrial engineer, with an additional MBA. He passed several Apics exams, is trained in Lean Management and is Prince2, QRM and VCA Vol certified.
On this page, you will find some short descriptions that will give you a first view on the experience Reint has.
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- Source, onboard and contract suppliers for main work packages for the manufacture of modular cooling units for data center within EMEA
- Set up of pull-driven assembly line (20.000 m2), for the assembly of modular cooling units for data center
- Strategic sourcing master plan for the expense side of P&L 600 million €
- Category management – savings >10% for specific categories
- Review approach frame agreements: 3-year contracts with a few suppliers:5 million € in contractual saving
- Setting up of local production units with partners in China, India and Thailand
- Industrialization for aeronautical wing structures: from design to lean assembly manufacturing, with use of visual management
- Successful implementation of major project with DHL and set-up of international industrial subcontracting
- Contracting and managing subcontractors for complete assemblies in Czech Republic and Turkey
- Production: integration of manual and automatic welding unit – welding robot automation
- Defining and setting up ERP: Microsoft D365 – Finance & Operations
- Defining KPI & BI setup (Power BI)
- Sage ERP implementation with shopfloor control
- Managing centralization and harmonization of the work methods used by the service & engineering team
- Setting up new departments:
- Procurement: project buyers, category management, expenditure analysis & forecast, benefit tracking
- E&I/automation: staffing + best practices (e.g. functional descriptions) and tools (e.g. TIA portal)
- Methods: routings, Lean, QRM, CAD-CAM (e.g. integration of design, laser & bending)
- Planning: master scheduler, master data governance, shop floor planning
- HR: organization redesign, talent management roadmap, HR tools, job grading (Hay)
- Installing business processes with supporting ERP:
- Sales & operations process, including active forecast and capacity planning
- Design: integration of old CAD data in Solidworks PDM
- Design: standardization: norms, drawings templates, categorization in PDM, materials definition
- New ERP: from definition to implementation: SAP S/4 Hana with Azure
- Setting the ICT landscape for new programs: routings, master data, OEE and ERP modifications needed to comply with the specifics of the program
- Design: standardization of material selection – change from 2D to 3D (Inventor) and set-up of PDM
- Developing business cases for starting a new activity: from engineering/expertise-based activities through offering of notified body services – construction and general industry
- Introduction of new technical developments: customer visits and cooperation with the Japanese headquarters – flexographic photopolymer plate development
- Successful professionalization and growth thanks to reorganization and development of new products representing > 40% of turnover – tin bath equipment for float glass
- From ideation to commissioning of full-scale tank terminal for LBC Antwerp (> 20 million €)
- Innovation: technology roadmap, business case, getting approvals from the board and shareholders
- From the design to the delivery of first shipment of lifting devices for A400M Airbus program (> 100 million €)
- Compliance project related to machine safety and adherence to the Machine Directive 2006/42/EC for new and (to be) repaired machines, together with subcontractors
- Construction of new manufacturing plant, including investments in machining, assembly and welding
- From ideation to commissioning of full-scale tank terminal for LBC Antwerp (> 20 million €)
- Project Manager
- Staffing and (budget) planning
- Tender & contract management with both customers and suppliers / subcontractors
- On site management for the project, from engineering to commissioning, including Vlarem certification.
- Technology scope: civil works including roads & railway, tank construction, piping, instrumentation (incl. mass flow measurement), loading arms, weighbridges, pumps, valves, automation with SCADA and recipe management linked to order processing (ERP)
- Safety: SIL and HAZOP studies
- Single point of contact for customer, P&L responsible, reporting to executive committee
- Cargo handling systems (DHL Cologne, Belgian Army – Melsbroek)
- Modular cooling units for datacenter within EMEA
- Machines for flexographic photopolymer plate development
- Annealing lehr for float glass
- Tin bath equipment for float glass
- Design & manufacturing of cargo handling systems and rolling equipment for handling goods in airports (GSE) and industry
- Manufacturing of heavy rolling equipment for RORO, harbor and steel industry
- Modular cooling units for datacenter within EMEA
- Annealing lehr for float glass
- Tin bath equipment for float glass
- Design & manufacturing of complex machine parts for the aeronautical industry (e.g. high lift structures and landing gears)
- Design & manufacturing of cargo handling systems and rolling equipment for handling goods in airports (GSE) and industry
- Flexographic photopolymer plate development
- Design & construction of tank terminals, handling installations & pressure vessels
- Design & manufacturing of fluidized bed installations for automotive, paint and plastic industry
- Project management of full EPC contract: tank terminal – LBC in Antwerp
- Procurement director: 600 million EUR in annual expenditure – construction & property, civil engineering, public private partnerships
- Design & construction of offshore windfarm constructions
- Cargo handling systems and rolling equipment for handling goods in airports (GSE) and industry
- Machines and installations for powder and granulates handling & processing.
- Machining
- Welding
- 3D measurement
- Surface and heat treatments
- Final assembly and testing
- Mechanical Engineering & design, HVAC
- Automation, controls & SCADA systems
- ICT: ERP, PDM, BIM 360
- Civil works including roads & railway
- Pneumatic and mechanical conveying
- Grinding
- Mixing
- Sifting
- Dosing
- Packing
- Deodorization
- Tank construction
- Piping
- Instrumentation
- Automation with SCADA and recipe management linked to order processing (ERP)
- Laser cleaning
- Hydraulic lifts
- Axles
- Slewing rings
- Ball bearings
- Mass flow measurement
- Loading arms
- Weighbridges
- Pumps
- Valves
- Fans
- HR: setting up the procurement & engineering department
- HR: organization redesign, talent management roadmap, HR tools, job grading (Hay)
- Business Development: new products > 40% of turnover
- Innovation & business development: product development and manufacture of tin bath equipment
- Innovation & business development: technology roadmap, business case, getting approvals from the board and shareholders for EPC approach for tank terminals
- Procurement and category management: 1 – 600 million €
- Setting up of local production units with partners in China, India and Thailand
- Strategic sourcing master plan for the expense part of a P&L of 600 million €
- Category management – identified savings >10% for specific categories
- Reviewing approach frame agreements: 3-year contracts with a few suppliers: 1.5 million € in contractual saving
- International operations management: > 230 indirect reports
- Interdisciplinary project & programs: 5 – 100 million €
- Full-scope tank storage terminal – 20 million € investment
- Definition and realization of new ERP system – SAP
- Setup of KPI & BI tool (Power BI)
- Master of Business Administration – K.U. Leuven: 1996 – 1998
- Managing Technology and Innovation
- Economics of Information Processing
- Production and Inventory Management
- Master in Industrial Engineering – Electromechanics – K.U. Leuven: 1988 –1992
- APICS: basics of supply chain management (2015) – MRP (2016) – DSP (2017)
- Prince 2 practitioner (2014)
- QRM Alpha Specialist (2017)
- Lean Manufacturing & Value stream mapping (2018) – Masterclass lean product development (Sirris – 2015)
- Financial management – Vlerick (2017)
- VOL VCA (2012)
- People management & Skills
- Leadership management, team management, coaching from staff members, communication skills for leaders, self-management for executives
- EQ and positive stress management, time-management, personal efficiency
- Conflict management, powerful communications, practical presentation skills
- Supply chain management and procurement
- APICS: detailed scheduling and planning (2017), master planning of resources (2016), basics of supply chain management (2015)
- Category management, supplier relationship management (Positive purchasing -2019)
- Price negotiations (Insead)
- Purchasing and stock management, Facility management, Partnerships in outsourcing of maintenance
- Project management & strategy
- Prince 2 practitioner (2014)
- Strategy = execution
- MS Project, project management, practical planning, project-oriented working, communication within projects
- Lean – QRM – Quality
- QRM Alpha Specialist (2017)
- Lean Manufacturing – Value stream mapping (2018)
- Masterclass lean product development (Sirris – 2015)
- Lean and SMEs, Implementing quality management according to ISO 9000, New ISO 9001 standard, internal auditor, quality management in sales & marketing
- Safety – process – machine directives
- VOL VCA (2012)
- Process safety: risk analysis- HAZOP (AIB Vincotte), Atex& SIL (AIB Vincotte)
- Machine Directive 2006/42/EC (2019)
- Machine safety standards (Agoria – 2016)
- Finance & risk management
- Financial management – Vlerick (2017)
- Risk management in projects
- First year Bachelor’s accounting program – evening classes
- Sales
- Selling for engineers, sale skills, public relations, face-to-face sale skills, sale in all its aspects, industrial sales, scoring with quotations for commercials
- ICT
- Power BI
- MS Project
- Pro Engineer (PTC), Solidworks, Solidworks PDM
- BIM 360
- SAP – BAIO / S4 Hana
- Microsoft – Dynamics: finance & operations (2022)
- Specialization courses
- Intensive training in environmental technology (K.I.H. De Nayer – 1992)
- Powder-coating for experts (VOM – 2014)
- Concrete and geotechnics: foundations and concrete constructions (WTCB – 2019)
- Refractory training (BCRC)
- Glass technical training (Profever)
- Construction: execution methods for jetties and quay walls (IE-NET)
- Formworks and exposed concrete (IE NET)
