Hello! I am

Sebastian Orlowski

Business experience

February 2023 - today

plant manager

Refresco Deutschland GmbH

September 2021 - December 2022

plant manager & member of the executive board

Privatbrauerei Eichbaum GmbH & Co. KG, Mannheim

Member of the executive board with joint procuration and director of all operations in

production (brewhouse, filtration, cellars, six filling lines, production planning) as well as

technical departments (electrical and mechanical maintenance, automation, boiler house, refrigerating plant, CO2 recovering, water production & processing, energy supply, facility management) with eight direct reports, 140 person total staff and a total beer production of around 1.8m hl per anno.

Responsible for OPEX and all CAPEX projects in the related departements.

Additionally energy management representative and head of brewer & maltster apprentice training.

May 2020 - September 2021

plant manager

Privatbrauerei Eichbaum GmbH & Co. KG, Mannheim

Director with procuration of all operations in production & technical departments.
Responsible for eight direct reports, 140 person total staff and a total beer production of around 1.8m hl per anno.

Responsible for OPEX and all CAPEX projects in the related departements.

Additionally energy management representative and head of brewer & maltster apprentice training.

September 2019 - May 2020

manager of production & filling

Privatbrauerei Eichbaum GmbH & Co. KG, Mannheim

Technical and disciplinary manager for the departments:

- brewhouse with fermentation cellar
- filtration with bright beer storage
- can filling (2 lines)
- bottle filling (2 lines)
- Keg- and 5L-can-filling

With a total capacity of around 1,8 Mio. hL.
In total liably for 120 employees and additional seasonal contract workers, as well as responsible for the brewer&maltster apprentice training.

April 2016 - August 2016

head of filling coordination department

Privatbrauerei Eichbaum GmbH & Co. KG, Mannheim

Self-reliant administration of the filling department, consisting of 3 shift leaders, 30 employees and contract workers.
Additional with responsibility for finances / cost center. Planing of personnell and investments.

December 2012 - March 2016

master brewer of filling department

Privatbrauerei Eichbaum GmbH & Co. KG, Mannheim

responsible for
- bottle filling lines (2x 60.000 b/h)
- 5L can filling line (700 c/h)
- Keg filling line (120 Kegs/h)

technical and disciplinary supervisor of 3 shift leaders, 30 employees and additional contract workers in a 3 shift operation

Education

September 2016 - today

major in "brewing and beverage technology"

Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin)

January 2017 - February 2019

research assistant at the research & contract laboratory, Department of brewing sciences

Berlin Institute of Technology, Chair of Brewing Science

September 2010 - December 2012

apprenticeship "brewer and maltster"

Privatbrauerei Eichbaum GmbH & Co. KG, Mannheim

September 2001 - July 2010

general qualification for university entrance

Max-Born-Gymnasium, Backnang

Success

December 2022

Works constitution act for employers

IFM Institut für Managementberatung GmbH, Hannover

November 2022

Qualified beer sommelier

Kiesbye Akademe, Obertrum am See, Austria

April 2022

Operator's obligations in Production & Maintenance

TÜV Rheinland, Cologne

March 2022

Energy KPIs - define, analyse, evaluate

TÜV Süd, Munich

March 2022

Establishment of efficient maintenance

TÜV Rheinland, Cologne

July 2020

Energy Management Practitioner

TÜV Süd, Munich

May 2020

Certified Data Protection Officer and Trained & Qualified specialist BDSG & GDPR

Complavis academy, Munich

April 2020

Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Complavis academy, Munich

April 2020

Certified Lean Manager & Kaizen Practitioner

Complavis academy, Munich

2020 - today

Member of the technical-scientific committee of the VLB

VLB, Berlin

July 2019

Approved trainee instructor (acc. to german AEVO regulation)

IHK Berlin

November 2018 - November 2019

International project „Food Security"

Association of German Engineers & Associação de Engenheiros Brasil – Alemanha

October 2017 - today

Scholarship holder „foundation for occupational education"

sbb GGmbH

November 2013

Regional and state best apprentice in „brewer and maltster" profession 2013

IHK Baden-Württemberg

Publications

scientific:

  • “ß-Glucan determination in colored beers by a new color independent enzymatical method” (Orlowski, Pereira, Kunz, Methner; poster presentation at “Young Scientist Symposium 2018” in Bitburg, Germany)
  • “Special malt dependent selective hop dosage regime to reduce iron content and improve oxidative beer stability” (Kunz, Orlowski, Cervantes, Methner; poster presentation at “Brewing Summit 2018” in San Diego, USA)
  • Citation referencing the poster from Trends in brewing 2018 in “Hop science newsletter” June 2018
  • “Adjusted hop dosage to reduce iron entry and negative influences by special malt on oxidative beer stability”, (Orlowski, Cervantes, Kunz, Methner; poster presentation at “Trends in Brewing 2018” in Ghent, Belgium)

non-scientific:

  • “Tag des Bieres: Brauereien in Corona-Zeiten”, (transl.: Day of the beer: breweries during COVID-19 pandemic, TV interview at RNF, 23.04.20)
  • “Ein Prosit aufs Studium”, (transl. : Cheers to university studies, interview at “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, 18.07.18)
  • “Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen / Der Weg einer Flasche”, (transl. : View behind the curtain: pathway of a bottle, interview in “Mannheimer Morgen”, local newspaper, 19.08.15)
  • “Das Bier kommt nicht einfach aus der Flasche”, (transl. Beer does not simply exist in a bottle, interview in “Mannheimer Morgen”, local newspaper, 03.09.11)

Skills

Knowledge

    • HACCP-concept
    • auditing according to IFS
    • QM-documentation
    • planing of personal
    • time management with SAP ERP
    • planing of investments
    • project management: developing, coordination and realizing of investment projects
    • documentation of supplies
    • coordination of maintenance
    • security tuition
    • operating instructions
    • creating and analyzing of statistics
    • analysis and optimization of trouble spots

Software

  • MS-Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook, Teams) also LibreOffice
  • SAP ERP 6.0
  • Lotus Notes
  • Qualifax (QMS)
  • Windows + Linux + MacOS
  • LaTeX document preparation system

Languages

  • German (mother tongue)
  • English (fluent)
  • Spanish (basic knowledge)
  • Russian (basic knowledge)
  • Latin certificate

Interests

  • automation
  • photography
  • fitness
  • cooking & baking
  • architecture & museums
  • hiking & exploring

Member of

  • Verein deutscher Ingenieure e. V. – Association of German Engineers
  • Deutscher Brau- und Malzmeisterbund e. V.- registered society of german masters of brewing and malting
  • Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers – registered society of beer sommeliers