Evelin Frank

Driven and pragmatic mechanical engineer and a former racing driver, particularly fond of dynamic, versatile jobs. Successfully delivered around a dozen technical customer-specific projects, launched a new product, brushed up cost calculations, currently leading Canadian PC-21 projects. By nature, an adventurous, easily adaptable, cheerful, and energetic individual, always ready to help colleagues and take the extra mile.

Pilatus Aircraft, Switzerland, 2022-Present (100%) 

Programme Manager (2024-Present)

• Managing individual projects within a defined customer sales program
• Overseeing Prime Contractors and Sub-Contractors
• Planning/leading contractual meetings in Switzerland and abroad (Kick-off, SRR, PDR, CDR, PMR)
• Organizing Quality Plan Reviews and manufacturing facility tours as part of audits
• Maintaining and updating project plans, schedules, and progress reports
• Owning the program master schedule
• Coordinating procurement activities
• Monitoring aircraft production in collaboration with outsourcing partners
• Defining the production and delivery schedule (including ferry flights) with customers and internal stakeholders
• Coordinating financial activities with the Unit Controller, including budget tracking and invoicing
• Preparing CDRL documentation such as Manufacturing, Delivery, and Acceptance Plans, including Aircraft Acceptance and Configuration Audit documentation
• Planning and setting up initial logistics support
• Creating project handover documentation and final reports
• Managing the handover to customer support following project implementation
• Handling all export-related matters (e.g., SECO, ITAR, EUC compliance)
• Supporting RFI/RFP processes in coordination with the supervisor or sales director

Product Cost Analyst (2022-2024)

• Identified hidden costs and resolved discrepancies in Business Aviation aircraft planning data
• Segmented aircraft structure, systems, and interior (inside-out) based on production processes and workstation cost allocation to support new aircraft development
• Analyzed data and calculated production costs for PC-12 and PC-24 aircraft
• Prepared financial inputs for strategic decision-making, price definition, and scenario analysis
• Tracked and forecasted cost escalations using supplier formulas and Consumer Price Indexes (CPIs)
• Developed and optimized models and templates for business case preparation, ROI calculations, and break-even analysis
• Contributed to budgeting and participated in Steering Committee meetings
• Collaborated across departments to define project and production costs and identify cost-saving opportunities
• Estimated costs for new projects based on existing production processes and current conditions
• Provided input and defined optimization requirements for the new SAP system implementation

Anton Paar TriTec, Switzerland, 2020-2022 (100%) 

Global Product Manager

• Achieved the highest sales and margins to date – increased by 20% thanks to the new sales support approach
• Head Product Manager in the development of a new product: Drawing up framework conditions (use cases, personas, weighted product requirements) and NPV (Net Present Value) calculations, participating in reviews as a member of the steering board, preparing executive summaries
• Led technical customer-specific development projects and defined their prices – around a dozen successfully delivered
• New product launch, marketing campaign, and promotional activities in cooperation with marketing and sales for the Hit 300 Instrument
• Scientific book on instrumented indentation testing (co-author): “From theory to practical guidelines: indent the world”
• Author of an educational package for the Hit 300 instrument
• Providing product-specific basic, technological, market, application, and service knowledge to support sales, customers, internal departments, and cooperation partners
• Market and competition monitoring considering business development
• Strategic planning of the product portfolio
• Product maintenance: Specifications for the continuous improvement and further development of the product and accessory portfolio; evaluation of ideas for the improvement of products with regard to their effectiveness in the market
• Decisions regarding the development of applications, development of new markets and applications, development of norms, standards, and approvals for the products
• Defining the price for products, accessories, and services
• Organizing and coordinating product discontinuation
• Content-related preparation, performing, and follow-up work of and for sales training
• Participating at seminars and exhibitions, content-related participation, and presence at the booth
• Creating and approving sales documents (sales guides, sales presentations, training materials, competitor guides, ...)
• Approval of and assistance with creating customer documents (brochures, press releases, customer presentations, pharma qualification documents, ...) and other technical and application documents
• Ensuring instrument compliance with the major industry standards (ISO, ASTM…)

Graz University of Technology, Austria, 2019 (100%) 

Research Assistant

• Solved a steel thermochemical parametrization problem (field of computational thermochemistry) dated to 1965 
• Publication: “Thermodynamic Precipitation Kinetics Simulation and Creep Deformation Modelling of Martensitic Steel X20 Based on Microstructural Evolution”

MILESTONE Operations GmbH, Austria, 2017-2019 (50%) 

Resident Manager Assistant and Deputy

• Tenant check-ins and check-outs, master-key holder, various paperwork tasks, organizing events, making sure buildings and apartments were in order, etc.

Rimac automobili (BUGATTI Rimac), Croatia, 2014-2016 (50%)

Mechanical Engineer

• 3D modeling/simulations of car and, at the time, Greyp bike parts

MSc, Mechanical Engineering: Production Science and Management (120 ECTS)

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Economic Sciences, Graz University of Technology, Austria, EU

PROJECTS AND CASE STUDIES

• PESTEL, SWOT, VRIO analyses, Development of Strategies, Core Competences of Tesla Motors
• Corporate Culture, Organizational Structures, Leadership analyses of 3M Optical Systems
• Ind. Engineering Project: Lean Factory (implementation of 5S, optimization of processes, lean principles…)
• Product Innovation Analysis of Apple
• Core Competences, Product Portfolio analyses of LEGO
• Physical holding costs: out-of-pocket expenses for storing inventory (insurance, security, warehouse rental, cooling), all costs that may be entailed before you sell it (obsolescence, spoilage, rework)
• Industry 4.0 project for an OEM - IT Infrastructure, Total Cost of Ownership
• The overall cost of production (cost of materials, orders, production, and inventory – MRP) at STABILO

BSc, Mechanical Engineering: Computational Mechanics (180 ECTS)

Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia, EU - Magna Cum Laude

Specialization in Leadership & Management 

Harvard Business School 

• Certificate in Leadership Principles 
• Certificate in Negotiation Mastery 
• Certificate in Strategy Execution