David Delcourt

2001 - Today BOMBARDIER - Worldwide leader of railway transportation systems

Site Manager - Crespin, France / 300 employees, approx. 100M€ turnover.
• Alignment of site structure to cope with market evolution: comprehensive review of team competencies and rightsizing activities (adjustment to workload fluctuation).
• Operations competitiveness improvement through deployment of synergies with our sister-site in Germany (rework of supply chain and technical services set-up).

Production director - Crespin, France
• Restructuring of production department (4 workshops; 250 employees) to comply with new output and quality requirements while achieving budgetary targets.
• Lean manufacturing approach deployed through Six Sigma projects (entire value chain reviewed).

Strategy and Organization development manager - Siegen, Germany
• Define and deploy initiatives & actions leading to a long-term increase of efficiency eg. transfer of production to Eastern countries, re-allocation of projects between production sites, etc.
• Drive down cost structure of business unit (cross-functional assignment).
• Internal & external benchmarking to implement best practices across sites (UK, Germany & France).

Warranty and field support project manager
• Project management of contracts under warranty.
• Management & co-ordination of all after sales activities.


1997 - 2001 STANAM INDUSTRIES INC. - Toronto, Canada. (Subsidiary of Standard Industrie group)
Design, manufacture and sale of industrial declogging equipments

Subsidiary director
• Management of the North-American sales teams: turnover tripled within three years.
• Human resources management (hiring, training, coaching).
• Direct management of key accounts.