Arnold Slik, Vice-President

Arnold Slik

Vice-President

Singapore Airlines

Location
Spain
Education
Master's degree, Industrial Engineering & Management Science
Experience
17 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months

Vice-President at Singapore Airlines
  • Singapore
  • October 2014 to April 2015

Responsible for 1362 technical people world-wide. Implementation of a new way of thinking in
asset management and maintenance. 100% maintenance predictability, increase uptime of critical
assets and equipment, life extension.

Interim Management at EADS
  • France
  • May 2013 to August 2014

Improving productivity at Eurocopter and other EADS factories. Training and educating management on the methodology

Director Assembly at Dassault Aviation
  • France
  • January 2012 to April 2013

Responsible for a lead time reduction program for the Falcon range business jet. Used lean manufacturing techniques to achieve 20% assembly lead time reduction

Director Maintenance at Fokker
  • Netherlands
  • March 2011 to December 2012

Upgrade maintenance systems for aircraft component special products. Achieved 0 backlog through productivity improvements, quantifying and scheduling all tasks including preventive maintenance.

Founder & Managing Director at Davaci
  • Netherlands
  • May 2005 to September 2011

A 60-people implementation consulting company. Developed a proprietary copyrighted
methodology in Change Management. Large-scale profit improvement, TCO/supply chain,
turnarounds and corporate restructuring.
Clients include Ford (Germany), Anvis (France), Bruker (Germany), Medtronics (Netherlands),
Nikas (Greece)

Program Director at World Food Program
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2010 to February 2011

Implementation of large scale cost reductions in 176 flour mills and 17.000 bakeries across Egypt.
Process improvements, technical analysis and method change. More than 1 billion Euros identified
savings. Program was stopped because of the Arab spring.

Interim Management at Océ
  • Netherlands
  • August 2008 to June 2009

Responsible for a large working capital reduction programme for most European companies and
5021 people

Founder & Managing Director at STaR Consulting Group
  • Ireland
  • July 1997 to May 2005

STaR Consulting Group specialises in implementing change. The philosophy Systems, Training And
Results delivers Star’s clients measurable improvements in top and bottom-line. STaR guarantees
its results and practically achieves an ROI on its projects of at least 300%.
Turned STaR into the second largest implementation consulting company in Europe, with about 30
projects on an annual basis in 9 countries and 96 FTE consultants.

Education

Master's degree, Industrial Engineering & Management Science
  • at Eindhoven University of Technology
  • July 1992

Master Industrial Engineering

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at EAP-ESCP (European School of Management)
  • June 1992

Master of Business Administration

Specialties & Skills

Lean Manufacturing
Six Sigma
Productivity Improvement
Asset Management
Maintenance
ASSET MANAGEMENT
Forecast modelling
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
People Management
Maintenance systems

Languages

Dutch
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Expert
German
Native Speaker
Indonesian
Beginner
Italian
Expert
Portuguese
Intermediate
Spanish
Expert