Adam Walker Email & Phone Number

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

As Bid Manager, I have full ownership of creating bids and quotes for the business. I manage inputs from multiple business areas in order to craft well-written, visually engaging proposals that meet customer requirements. We cater to clients in the automotive, defence, public, and utilities sectors, offering consultation on low carbon technology, vehicle.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Teaching customers to drive high performance cars on race tracks around the UK

Remote relationship building and account management for a tech startup company. Designed high-quality, professional processes to deliver a new state-of-the-art software platform, called Advance® Analytics to world-leading pharmaceutical companies. As a result, Advance® Analytics has been nominated for several awards and recognised as the future of.

Nuess, Germany

• Recruited by Jaguar Land Rover to move to Neuss, Germany on a 3-year assignment to set up a new European department, Front Desk Engineering.
• Responsible for all Body Engineering customer complaints for the European market, German high-performance market-specific issues, and high-profile projects, such as delivering the Royal Family’s bespoke vehicles for.
• Directed multiple Technical Assist (TA) often 20-30 projects at a time. Scoping the issues, analysing time, cost, quality, risk, resources and planning with supplier and UK engineering teams.
• I was the project leader working with Global JLR teams (China, Russia, NAS & UK) sharing issues found across the world to drive a faster engineering resolution. I chaired the meetings, captured all the actions.
• Investigated German market specific issues such as high speed (Vmax) concerns and controlled bespoke projects such as Jaguar Project 8 inspection & handover.
• Prevented vehicle buybacks at a cost of over £8M by pulling cross, functional engineering teams, together, accurately defining root cause using Six Sigma methodology (DMAIC, Ishikawa diagrams 8D, 5Why’s-2How’s, Cause.

United Kingdom

• Directed a team of engineers to deliver the X761 SVO Programme from PS to Job1 +90Quality leadership with prime responsibility to guarantee that the product and process quality at the production location, in both the.
• Negotiated the project budget and was responsible for over £15M to provide the SVO content for X761. Content includes front & rear bumpers, door cladding, seats, in addition functional trim such as towing and roof rails.
• Responsible for driving down costs from suppliers and saved £1.8M on Rosti door claddings by aligning tooling with cross functional Core Engineering.
• Achieved 100% Release throughput at FDJ+4 gateway, the first SVO vehicle to achieve this target. In addition, accomplished 100% geometry inspection.
• Managed the X761 PST meetings, organised the agenda and issued minutes using a range of project management tools (Microsoft (MS) Project, Gantt Charts, MS Access, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel). Ensured information.
• SVO representative at Executive Process Chain, Launch Management Meetings (LMM) and New Model Launch Reviews (NMLR). Delivered enhanced engineering processes and design improvements supporting Right First Time (RFT).

United Kingdom

• Specialist Variability Reduction Team (VRT) leader responsible for managing complex body structure quality commodities across new model programmes Range Rover (L405) and Range Rover Sport (L494).
• Analysed all design changes between design phases to structural components using CAD systems (CATIA, Digibuck, Team-Centre Visualization Mock-up). Completed visual inspections on part deliveries to verify parts were.
• Implement continuous improvement over evolving build phases.Co-ordinated the logistics of sheet metal panel reworks and Press Shop stamping operations with suppliers.
• Maintain compliance to current worldwide PPAP and PSW legislations through negotiation with ‘STA’ (Supplier Technical Assistance) authority.
• Illustrate to stakeholders the multiple build phases and entire product lifecycle that are required to develop the vehicle from its prototype introduction through to a qualified and saleable vehicle that has complete.
• CAD Engineer on the front-end body structure on Jaguar XE, XF and F-Pace. Designed the vehicle architecture using CATIA and Team-Centre, carried out feasibility studies using Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Finite.

United Kingdom

• Manufacturing, integration and launch engineering feasibility to ensure production capacity Containment of production engineering and quality concerns accompanied by relentless root cause analysis using PPS (Practical.
• Manage new product launches into and across JLR Production facilities ensuring minimal impact to existing product output.
• Actively work with tools like AIMS, ECR and CMM system.
• Raise Facility Change Requests and Line Trail Documents to control all modified vehicles and managed them through Paint Operations, Trim and Final, End of Line (EOL) and Vehicle Sign Off.
• Responsible for reprogramming various robots and monitoring their subsequent performance. Carried out vehicle measurements in metrology labs, read and analysed the CMM data output using Gradient Software & SPC tools to.
• Undertook FPA Range Rover Audits and presented all findings to management using Microsoft Office Tools (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word)

United Kingdom

I worked in several areas of the business tasked with various projects to gain a good understanding of each department. While working in Paint Operations Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME) I delivered a project which reduce paint overfill waste in the automated spray machines. I carried out an in depth study to identify the best solution for the.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Engineering, 2-1 Honours

Completed a Foundation degree and progressed on to BSc Engineering Honours degree.

Engineering Nvq 2 & Nvq 3, Distiction (Double)

As part of my Apprenticeship programme I achieved a NVQ 2 in Modern Engineering and NVQ 3 Engineering Technical Support.

10 A-C Gcse

Activities and Societies: 10 A-C GCSE including English, Maths& Science