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Following on my initial 6 months in a national role with Bremworth, I was "redeployed" to manage the Auckland engineering maintenance team in support of the Bremworth Auckland manufacturing plant, distribution center and corporate office. Responsible for capex planning and project management, machine maintenance, maintenance budget and resource planning.

New Zealand

Working in a national role to implement and drive a continuous improvement program across three manufacturing sites to improve safety, efficiency and capacity. Key outcomes during this time was several FEED studies to bring robotic automation and servo control upgrade projects up to a pre-capex stage, a corporate-wide traffic management standard developed.

PCI Engineer Finishing Department:Dedicated to a key line to reduce downtime and maintain high quality standards by developing teams and team leaders across three shifts, managing changes and implementing sound engineering improvements. Here I proved my systematic problem solving skills and team leadership during a significant process.

Working with the operations team to improve quality systems, analyse our current processes, improve product yield and drive the cultural change required to begin the continuous improvement journey.

In my final semester of university I was offered a graduate position at Huhtamaki Henderson, a large plant manufacturing food packaging (paper cups, plastic lids, tubs etc) as part of the larger foodservice arm of the Huhtamaki group.Huhtamaki was a very diverse site where over two years I made a tour through most departments working on everything from.

Auckland, New Zealand

While initially my final year engineering project to develop a working prototype to automate one of their assembly processes, I was asked to continue the project over the summer to finish the entirety of the machine to carry the prototype tooling developed in 2010; We were press fitting steel pins into precut slots spread across large MDF boards, which.

Auckland, New Zealand

Having been an early and active member of the SMC (founded in early 2007 and by 2009 one of the largest motorcycle organizations in NZ by memberships), I have donated countless amounts of time, tools, rubber and fuel to the running of club events, repairing and/or modifying members’ motorbikes and mentoring of new riders. My role as elected Safety Officer.

Auckland, New Zealand

Part time during uni, I would generally ride around with one or more other scooter riders and do general promotional advertising work, such as handing out freebies or flyers or just being noticed. The scooters themselves were 150cc Vespas, specially modified to tow trailers displaying signage and required a surprising level of teamwork and communication to.

Auckland, New Zealand

My responsibilities included occasional design/installation jobs within the factory and the operation, maintenance and repair of a CNC cutting laser. This was mostly part time work during university semesters, with full time work during holidays when available, and was a great way to learn about manufacturing and factory processes. Working for family as an.

Auckland, New Zealand

Gofer, mechanic, gardener, driver, labourer, courier, cleaner, lunch boy, builder, landscaper, painter, signwriter – you name it I did it. This was my first job after school (including holidays) for the latter half of high school.