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Markus Hammerdinger
What is your name? In which area and for how long have you been working for Linde/BOC?
My name is Markus Hammerdinger and I have been with Linde for seven years. I am Head of Manufacturing for Special Equipment, such as Spiral Wound Heat Exchangers, Helium / Hydrogen-Liquefaction Units and LNG Main Cryogenic Heat Exchangers, based in the Linde Engineering manufacturing facility in Schalchen, near Munich in Germany.
What are your main job responsibilities?
My main responsibility is to ensure that equipment is manufactured in time, within budget, to the specified quality, and to ensure a safe workplace for approximately 120 employees in our product group. To fulfil these requirements I have a team of qualified foremen, quality supervisors and work planners who take care of attention to detail that is necessary for our success.
What is the most exciting thing about your role?
My main challenge is the coordination between different and sometimes opposing goals of projects simultaneously in production, and to fulfil all client and statutory requirements. It is exciting to see big components growing from simple plates and tubes into complex process units which are at the heart of a plant. Also the equipment installation is mostly specialist, since units become bigger and bigger thanks to the enhancement of our clients’ production capacities. Therefore we place much effort into questions of logistics with regard to where to build, how to transport, how to ship to the client, and how to install on site.
Why did you decide to join Linde/BOC?
Linde provides many different possibilities to work. I joined Linde in 1985 on an apprenticeship as a plant mechanic and started studying afterwards. During my studies I worked part-time for Linde and afterwards I rejoined Linde for an 18-month re-engineering project. Then I left to work for two other companies, but I always stayed in close contact thanks to the locality and my already-established contacts. In 1998, the LNG business was starting in Schalchen and I had the opportunity to join this fascinating project.
What do you like about Linde/BOC?
There is more behind Linde than just fork lifts and gas storage tanks, which is more or less the public perception. Linde is a leading technology group providing solutions for customers worldwide. It is especially the case for Linde Engineering that most of our clients are based outside Germany, and I find it very interesting to work together with people of other nationalities and cultures.
Where do you see your career going?
As our gas and engineering business grows with the energy markets of the world there will be many challenges and interesting projects coming up. In the medium-term future I see myself as being involved in the improvement and enhancement of special equipment production in general, and LNG business applications in particular for Linde Schalchen – focused on design, manufacturing and project management. |