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New CEO at Mercedes in Kecskemét |
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Written by Jan Mainka
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
Frank Klein has been the new CEO of Mercedes-
Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft since the beginning
of February. Klein’s predecessor Michael
Friess is returning to Germany.
After completion of the preparation and design phase
Friess had asked for another position for personal
reasons. Friess has taken on a new position within
Mercedes-Benz in Bremen following the start of
construction work and thereby a new phase of the
Kecskemét project.
Production experience
“We are pleased that in the person of Frank Klein we
have gained an experienced expert in production for the
development and management of our factory,” Mercedes-
Benz COO Rainer Schmückle said. “As director of
assembly at the factory in Sindelfingen, where the S
Class, the Maybach and the SLS are produced among
others, he has already familiarised himself intensively
with the premium standards of our production,”
Schmückle added.
CV
After qualifying as an electrical engineer at the Stuttgart
Berufsakademie (university of co-operative education),
Frank Klein went to work for what was then Daimler-Benz
AG at the Sindelfingen factory in bodywork construction
and design.From 1996 -99 the Mainz-born engineer led the
electric, electronic tools and processes teams of Mercedes’
then subsidiary Freightliner in Portland (USA), before
working as assistant to the leader of the development
department within the passenger car division of
DaimlerChrysler AG until 1999. Klein went on to direct
assembly of electric and electronic components at the
Sindelfingen factory until 2002. During the following two
years Klein directed assembly and bodywork manufacture
of the CL Class in Sindelfingen. Until 2005 he held the position
of assistant to the passenger car director of Daimler
AG in Stuttgart. Before taking up his current position in
Kecskemét, Klein directed assembly at Sindelfingen. The
new CEO in Kecskemét is a married father of two.
Progress
Based on information provided by the company, work
at the construction site in Kecskemét is continuing to
run absolutely according to plan, both in terms of timing
and costs. The first vehicles of the successor models to
the A and B Class are to be produced in the new factory
in
2012 in close co-operation with the Mercedes plant
in Raststatt. The cornerstone of the factory in
Kecskemét was laid last October in the presence of
Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai. In tandem with the
construction work, the first positions have already been
filled in the areas of production, administration,
personnel and controlling, with some new employees
already taking related training programmes. In the long
term some 2,500 jobs will be created at the plant. In
total Mercedes-Benz plans to invest approximately EUR
800 million in Kecskemét.
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