A brief introduction

 

I am a qualified expert in Mechanical and Process Engineering, specialising in Automotive Technology. My career to date has focused on the professional areas of establishing and securing operational capability based on standardisation and progressive excellence as well as coaching executives and teams at globally operating medium-sized companies. Most of my clients come from the automotive industry (Porsche, BMW, Volkswagen), the automotive supplier industry or medium-sized industrial production companies.

In my roles as COO, Plant or Production Manager, Project or Development Lead, I combine technical expertise with strategic foresight. I create structures that enable both stability and speed, guiding organisations safely through change, growth, and crisis.

I mainly acquire such roles by contacting larger and globally operating medium-sized companies but I am also happy to discuss options with enterprises and groups of companies.

Operational Focus

  • Lean management and lean production with upstream standardisation and industrialisation
  • System-based project management and process optimisation
  • Gemba, “Hands-On in the Engine Room”; Kaizen/CIP/KVP
  • Operational HR structural development, coaching operational executives
  • De-escalation of supplier conflicts, plant relocation, security of supply
  • Technology development with accelerated cycles for series-production readiness

Jörg Tuschling - Interim Operations Manager

For almost 30 years I have been working with professional expertise and passion in the international operative technical management.

In 2016 I founded my company OES international GmbH and I have been supporting my clients as an Interim Operations Manager to master upcoming challenges with my expert knowledge since then.

The following mindset: “Success is best summed up in two words: DO IT.”

According to the original quote by J.W. von Goethe

My USP

My expertise and my many years of professional and life experience enable me to combine specialist and social competence at a high level and in perfect harmony. These skills are accompanied by a talent that I have developed over the years, namely my ability to act and make decisions based on my intuition alongside facts, figures and data. My clients and colleagues consider me to be a pillar of strength, as a senior manager who navigates through troubled waters, an approachable manager with attitude and integrity. Or, as one team recently expressed it in a poem: “With foresight, heart and a clear goal, you led the project with style.”

OES stands for "Operational Excellence Solutions". My customers and business partners can rely on first-class operational solutions for the tasks entrusted to me.

Education & training

09/1989 - 09/1995
Diplom degree studies (equivalent to an M.Sc.) in Mechanical and Process Engineering, specialising in Automotive Technology Qualification: Dipl.-Ing.
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

05/1986 - 02/1989
Military service, non-commissioned officer
Panzerpionierbataillon 7 Pirna tank pioneer battalion

09/1984 - 04/1986
Apprenticeship as an Agricultural Machine Mechanic, Neustadt in Sachsen, Germany
VEB Kombinat Fortschritt Landmaschinen Berufsschule Dr. Theodor Neubauer vocational school

Areas of expertise

  • 30 years of leadership experience in Germany & abroad
  • COO; technical plant, location, profit centre, project & production management
  • Establishing operational excellence within the context of developing organisational excellence
  • Increasing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
  • SMED process optimisation for security of supply
  • Operational HR structural development: recruitment, integration & employee engagement
  • De-escalation across countries and continents
  • Project management for de-escalation at the start of production
  • Establishing companies in Germany & abroad
  • Location development, including industrialisation
  • Setting up plants & managing ramp-ups
  • Plant relocation

Methods

  • Lean & change management
  • KPI-based control loops
  • Gemba, “Hands-On in the Engine Room”
  • CIP/KVP/Kaizen; 5M/5Why; 5S
  • Methodical operational & technical coaching
  • JIT/JIS, SMED
  • Training, coaching & management of operational & technical executives
  • Didactics for knowledge transfer, moderation techniques & conversation techniques

Leadership skills

  • Entrepreneurial competence by developing competitive advantages
  • International competence by establishing communication structures for the internal & external interaction of management staff; specialising in Eastern, South-East & Western Europe
  • Time spent abroad:
    - Ukraine: 2 years
    - Hungary: 2 years
    - Romania: 3 years
    - Czech Republic: 1.5 years
    - Other destinations: China, Japan, Poland, Russian Federation, Sweden, Slovakia, Turkey, France, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Languages: English: fluent; Norwegian, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian: basic skills
  • Operational HR competence
  • Team structuring, employee empowerment & identifying, promoting and supporting potential

Further management skills

  • Industry knowledge and professional competence based on acquired expertise and long-standing professional experience in the fields of automotive and industrial production
  • Restructuring and modern alignment of project teams and production plants
  • System expertise in the integration of online-based IT systems, for example Celonis data mining in combination with Lanner simulation at production hubs
  • Project-related technology development with accelerated cycles for series-production readiness
  • Intercultural competence in the synchronisation and optimisation of operational and technical units across countries, companies and departments

Further education & training

  • Change Professional / Change Management
  • Six Sigma Green Belt
  • Systemic Management
  • Facility Development
  • Intercultural Training (Japanese-East/Middle Europe)
  • Production Systems Development
  • International Logistics
  • International Project Management
  • Intercultural Training in Eastern Europe
  • Human Resources Management in Shift Operations
  • ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

I place value on

  • Respectful and appreciative cooperation at and between all corporate levels
  • Knowledge and application of modern operational IT systems combined with a well-established wealth of human experience
  • An empathic and active approach to generation management

Projects & Successes

01/2025-10/2025 | Stabilisation of a Polish site in a German company as a supplier for e-mobility

Industry: Automotive supplier industry; production of basalt panels for hazard reduction in battery fires for the automotive industry

Significant achievements: De-escalation | Stabilisation, improvement and maintenance of delivery performance | Reduction of the reject rate | Performance improvement with reduction of one complete shift | Implementation of standard KPI controlling for HR, production, logistics and quality, including activation of KPI-based control loops to ensure sustainability | Coaching and team building | Strategic support through awareness-raising for ‘process maturity levels’ and ‘requirements management’ in organisational structures

04/2024-11/2024 | Medium-sized company in Germany

Industry: Technical building and home equipment; production of door closing systems

Significant Achievements: Bridging leadership and stabilisation in the change process | Structurization and motivation of the departments under my lead | Establishing and optimising interaction between the specialist departments of production, logistics, quality, engineering and maintenance | Improving shop floor management | Sustainably reassuring the works council and winning it over to the modern orientation of the company

02/2023-12/2023 | 100% subsidiary of an OEM in Germany

Industry: Automotive supplier industry; production of battery cells for e-mobility / OEMs

Significant Achievements: Structured and motivated all shifts with an increase in output of more than 100% | Established and optimised interaction between the Production, Logistics, Process Engineering and Maintenance departments | Launched measurable professional standardisation with work instructions, including testing and cleaning instructions as well as testing, maintenance and cleaning plans and setting up the factual control of these documents

08/2022-01/2023 | Internationally operating Canadian company in Germany

Industry: Automotive supplier industry; production of chassis castings for the automotive industry

Significant achievements: Started the implementation of modern, system-based process optimisation by combining Celonis – data mining with Lanner simulation at production node points | Supported the OEM’s Task Force Leader | Coached the head of department in the production node points and the logistics management with a focus on production planning | Achieved the release of all of the supplier’s investment funds and human resources for the implementation of the action plans

12/2021-07/2022 | Internationally operating Italian company in Poland

Industry: Automotive supplier industry; production of plastic parts for the automotive industry

Significant achievments: Secured the supply of the OEM by reactivating and successfully relaunching a task force that had previously failed | Optimised the flow of information between the OEM and the supplier’s Logistics/Quality departments | Increased the OEE and the SMED/PCPI by implementing methodological KPI-based control loops | Executed the action plans | Coached the Production Manager, the Logistics Manager, all shift managers, the process engineering employees and the customer service team | Implemented modern IT-system-based measurement of OEE and PPM for two main machines | Optimised SED, JIT/JIS delivery performance, 5S and tool readiness

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Jörg Tuschling
oes international GmbH
Kramberg 27
37120 Bovenden
Germany