Katrin, how would you describe yourself?

  • Strategic Thinker
  • Communicator
  • Animal Lover
  • Synergy Recognizer
  • Serial Junkie
What is special about working at Infineon?

The positive, cooperative, inspiring, and innovative atmosphere.

What have been your main tasks in your last position?

Supporting ramp-up for our SiC production based on the epitaxy single process. Implementing “automation readiness” for the SiC epitaxy ramp-up.

What have been the results of your work in your last position?

Ensuring stable and highly automated SiC production based on the epitaxy single process together with colleagues from IT, process development, and maintenance.

How do you assess the opportunities for further development at Infineon?

Taking a look at my own career at Infineon, the company really supports employee development – this is outstanding. I personally took the opportunity to switch from the technical ladder to the management ladder. Especially in Villach where we have development and production on one site, there are so many options to grow.

What are your job highlights in your current position?

Clearly to work with and develop the people in my team, but also to develop the best solution for technical topics together with my team and the other stakeholders. In other words: to create.

What are your biggest challenges in your current position?

The transformation from being an engineer to becoming a manager. Focusing on strategic and organizational topics, but with the necessary technical background to do so. Also my job is heavily influenced by the production environment; this requires a high degree of creativity, flexibility, and team work. Sometimes a factory incident eats into your schedule for that working day and you end up managing an upcoming challenge.

What inspires you?

Working with smart people in diverse teams is something that inspires me. It is always surprising to see how a team develops incredibly smart ideas, even for problems where it was not clear at the outset whether there even was a solution.