Summary
Rik De Bock is an experienced industrial leader and interim manager with nine years in senior plant and operations roles and a career spanning manufacturing, process innovation, and business development. He has led cultural transformations and robust process improvements across viscose, injection molding, and electronics production, often with P&L responsibility and cross-border technology transfers. Known for blending engineering rigor (KU Leuven, electro-mechanics) with practical program and project management, he drives makeability, built-in quality, and rapid time-to-volume execution. Rik combines hands-on plant management with consultant-level tools like 6S, QRM and COPQ to unlock productivity and niche innovation, and he’s recently broadened his interests into AI/ML while pursuing nature-guiding and wood-creation hobbies.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Civil engineer Electro mechanics, electronics option control engineering, Civil engineer Electro mechanics, electronics option control engineering at KU Leuven
Dutch, English, French, portugees