Katy Waidelich

Experience

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  British Gas

  Aug 1995 - Sept 1996

  Year in industry
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  Ford Motor Company

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  Undergraduate sponsored student

  Series of 3 month placements in Production, Product development and Sales

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  GKN plc

  Feb 2001 - Mar 2002

  International Leadership Development Programme

  Series of 6 month placements across international GKN business whilst following leadership development and language (german, Spanish) training. GKN Hardy Spicer (Automotive) Birmingham: Delivered 100k GBP annual CNQ savings by implementing production standardisation, SPC and design process changes. Velcon, Mexico (Joint Venture)Conceptual design and implementation of radically simplified manufacturing cell (reduced from 7 to 3 people) and immediate NRC saving of 0.5M$ (avoidance of need to automate).Subsequently implemented on 12 other international sites. Show less

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  GKN Aerospace

  Apr 2002 - Jan 2005

  Management of 5 Value steams (End to End Product lines) in Aerospace Composite Manufacturing Accountable for Quality, Delivery and Cost performance for 10M€ annual turnoverLeading a Multi-funtional team of 50 people Successfully developing and implementing strategy to transform composite manufacturing facility from silo to cellular (value stream) organisation of 300 people and 50 M€ turnover. Culture and organisation change: teams empowered to run cell using own daily QDC visual management. Additional activities : SMED and VSM in matching area.

  • Operations Manager

    Oct 2003 - Jan 2005

  • Lean Manager

    Apr 2002 - Oct 2003
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  Airbus

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2021

  Leading Production and Aircraft management roles (evolution of role linked to changes in the organisation my location)Airbus Operations GmbH: A380 Outstanding Work - Aircraft and Production Management in Final Assembly line from first Aircraft finalisation. Customer (FAL) facing, Lead production teams on MSN2, MSN4, MSN8.2006 - similar role in Hamburg during A380 crisis (2 year delay announced) and central role in recovery.2007 -2010: Customer facing Production management in OSW team leading a multi-functional on Section 13 Electrics of over 200 people. Large multinational, multifunctional network developed through each phase of A380 recovery. Show less

  • Head of Culture Transformation

    Oct 2019 - Jan 2021

  • Leadership Development and Culture Change, Airbus in UK (Head of)

    Jan 2017 - Oct 2019

  • Product Development and Design to Cost Manager, A350 Programme

    Apr 2016 - Dec 2016

  • End to End Electrics Project Manager

    Nov 2012 - Mar 2016

  • A350 Fuselage Industrial Manager: Electrics and Recurring Cost of Systems installation

    Apr 2010 - Oct 2012

  • Operations Manager, Aircraft Manager

    Jan 2005 - Mar 2010
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  Aston Business School

  Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  MSc Business/Data Analytics

  Distinction grade achieved. Content 8 Modules: Software for Analytics (Python & R), Descriptive Analytics , Decision Models , Performance Analytics , Data Mining and Web Analytics, Effective Management Consultancy, Business Analytics in Practice, Big Data for Decision MakingDissertation on Multi-Criteria Decision Modelling (Optimisation) in Aerospace OEM supply networks.

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  Accenture France

  Jan 2022 - now

  Business Project Leader Software Innovation

  Helping disruption happen