About

Berk Demirbilek
...covering: development, project management, and reliability.

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The career began where reliability is non-negotiable: qualifying electronic assemblies for Earth observation satellites at TÜBİTAK, Türkiye’s national research council. Components that must survive launch loads, thermal vacuum cycling, and years of unattended operation in orbit — tested to MIL-STD-810 and ECSS space qualification standards.

That foundation shaped everything that followed. Fifteen years of diesel powertrain development — starting at Ford Otosan in Kocaeli, then managing parallel Renault programmes at FEV Europe across teams in Germany, France, China, and Romania, and extending into heavy-duty applications at AVL and Deutz. The scope grew from single-component calibration to full programme ownership covering aftertreatment, OBD, and homologation.

One lesson emerged across every station: the most successful projects were not the ones with the best engineers — they were the ones with the clearest structure. That conviction led to the IPMA® Level C certification.

Today, the focus spans automotive, defense, energy, and maritime — with the same principle that started in a satellite test lab: engineer it right, manage it tight.

Education

M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering — RWTH Aachen University

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering — Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara

Experience

Automotive · Defense · Aerospace · Energy 

Certification

IPMA® Level C — Certified Project Manager

TELC Deutsch C1

Languages

Turkish — Native

German — Fluent (C1 certified)

English — Fluent (professional working language)

Career footprints

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