1. Resume
Stefan Gebhardt
Contact details
Address:
15 Mooball Road
Woongarrah, New South Wales, 2259
Phone: 0438 092276
Email Address: s.gebhardt@internode.on.net
LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stefan-gebhardt-053031b
Current position since October 2015:
Materials Analyst and Laboratory Engineer at DataTrace ID, Frenchs Forest, NSW
Responsibilities at DataTrace ID:
- Order preparation and Dispatch
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Process Improvement
- Product Development
- Production assistance
- Research and Development of new products
- Production trials in house and at supplier or customer
Last position:
Technical Engineer at Solaft Filtration Solutions, Lisarow, NSW
- September 2012 to August 2014
Major achievements at Solaft Filtration:
- Successful new product developments and trials at customer sites across Australia,
with project values up to $250,000
- Successful production trials for new products on site
Main Responsibilities at Solaft Filtration:
- Product design, development & improvement
- Project management
- Production trials on site and at customer sites Australia wide
- Process improvement
- Technical support to local and overseas production facilities and sales representatives
- Quality assurance and Quality control
- Internal auditing and Chemical register
- Laboratory work
- Customer complaints management, Customer support

2. Previous position:
Process engineer at Amcor Fibre Packaging Australasia, Botany NSW
- September 2011 until closure of business in May 2012
Major achievements at Amcor Fibre Packaging:
- Successful trials to save money and / or improve product quality by introducing new
materials, to be used on various other Amcor sites as well
- Successful production trials to reduce cost while achieving same quality
Main responsibilities at Amcor Fibre Packaging:
- Management of externally sourced materials / Link to suppliers
- Technical support to production team
- Support to quality assurance team
- Laboratory work
- Fault finding process (RCA, 5Y analysis) and Process improvement
- Safety audits
- Reduce environmental impact
- Statistical analysis of production
- Trial planning and reporting, customer service reports, quality notifications
- Preparing the plant for permanent closure
Earlier positions:
Australian Paper Maryvale, Morwell VIC
- Chemical Process Engineer at M3 Paper Machine 10/2007 – 08/2010
o Fine papers, light packaging, specialty papers
- Papermaking Specialist at M5 Paper Machine, 08/2006 – 09/2007
o Copy papers (i.e. Reflex)
Major achievements at Australian Paper:
- Successful plant change project: installation of new dye dosage system at the chemical
plant to change from temporary trial status to permanent installation
- Cost savings: Improvement of chemical losses, savings of up to $700 per day
($250,000 p.a.) by optimizing cleaner systems
- Quality related losses kept constantly below budget; increased compliance with
customer quality notifications to 100%
- Successful changeover to new chemical supplier and installation of new equipment
- Successful implementation of new test equipment and procedures to improve quality
and production performance, and reduce losses and downtime
Main responsibilities at Australian Paper:
- Management of chemical dosage systems / Link to chemical suppliers
- Technical support to production team
- Monthly production runs of specialised papers (bank cheques, colours etc.)
- Process improvement / Fault finding process
- Quality assurance, link to customer service
- Document control
- Operator training on new procedures or equipment
- Trial planning

3. Main skills acquired as chemical / process / technical engineer:
- New product development and design
- Process improvement
- Project management skills
- Advanced MS Office skills
- Further computer skills with programs such as SAP, SCADA, QAD, AutoSketch
- excellent communication skills (mail/email, phone, face to face)
- basic web design skills
- People management skills
- WHS & E focus
- Internal auditing
- Flexibility due to complex work places, varying projects, trials and work situations, on
call duties, travelling to customers Australia-wide, etc.
Previous work positions in Germany:
- Assistant to the Technical Manager at Cordier Paper (Germany), position held from
May 2005 to May 2006.
- Project Engineer at Glatz Fine Papers (Germany) for my honours year thesis
(November 2004 – April 2005)
- Project Engineer at Palm Paper Group (Germany) from July to September 2004 (work
experience)
- Various successful minor projects while studying at University
Tertiary Education:
- University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany, October 2000 to July 2004, then
honours thesis. Graduated in May 2005 with a BSc (hons) degree in Process
Engineering, specialising in chemical processes
Further notable experiences:
- Military Service in the German Army (conscription), August 1998 to August 1999
o In charge of small parts warehouse and supply chain for special ops group
- Labourer roof tiling, multiple times between 1996 and 1998
References:
- Gunther Schmidt, former Managing Director at DataTrace ID (Supervisor)
0402 846 102, https://au.linkedin.com/in/gunther-schmidt-6b700526/en
- Nelson Ostler, Technical Manager Solaft Filtration Solutions (Supervisor)
Nelson.Ostler@solaft.com; 02 8006 6200
- Further references possible if needed
Relevant Personal Information:
- Nationality German, permanent residency visa for Australia acquired in 2009
- Languages: Fluent in English and German, basic French
- Australian Driver’s Licence