Hans Kusters

Background

About Hans Kusters

Over 20 years experience in supplier quality, Quality and production within automotive and medical device industries. Extensive global experience living and working in Europe and Asia. Leveraging cultural learning whilst leading global multicultural teams. Proven capabilities in team building and optimization, focused on development of team culture. Driven to enable tangible business results measured through KPI’s, employee retention and engagement. Setting high performance expectations for teams, peers and myself. Focused on change management and leading by example in terms of behaviors values and interpersonal skills. Specialties: • Transformational change • Team creation and development • Global multi-site leadership • Influencing – indirect team management • Change management • Organizational restructuring • Process optimization • Supplier Qualification, optimization and development • LEAN methodologies Result driven • Purchasing Controls FDA, medical devices; • Global Supplier Quality Development; • Supplier Management Automotive • Quality Management Systems Automotive • Project Management • APQP • Design for Six Sigma (DfSS) • Problem solving, DMAIC, 8D • Quality improvement • Process improvement • ISO 14971 • Lead Auditor ISO 9001, VDA 6.0 & TS 16949, ISO13485, FDA 21 CFR part 820