OREANDA-NEWS. Kerstin Lauer, currently Assistant Plant Manager Vehicle Operations Saarlouis, is appointed Plant Manager Vehicle Operations Saarlouis, effective August 1st 2015. She will replace Dominique Maessen, who leaves the company at his own request.

 
Kerstin Lauer joined Ford in 1983 as an apprentice at the Saarlouis plant. She first worked in assembly and later in the Business Office and in product development. Over the years she has held various management positions at Ford’s German sites in Cologne and Saarlouis, as well as Dagenham, in the UK and Bordeaux, France.

From 2004 to 2006, Lauer was responsible for quality assurance and systems in Saarlouis where she head of the paint shop from 2007 to 2008.

In 2008 she was appointed director of diesel engine production in Dagenham, and from 2009 to 2011 she worked as chief engineer in Cologne with responsibility for product launch planning in Ford’s European production sites. In 2011 she was appointed to lead the final assembly at Saarlouis and then became assistant plant manager in 2014.
 
Kerstin Lauer has a degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Automation Technology from the University of Applied Sciences, Saarbruecken, as well as a master's degree in Vehicle Manufacturing Technology from the University of Loughborough in England.