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Responsible for the direction of the local Operations Team including Production, Purchasing, Logistics and EH&S.Demand coordination/Logistics planning with the North American sales team to ensure continuity of the supply chain from our parent factories in Europe and China.

Responsible for the alignment of local business processes with group procedures to facilitate common ERP/MRP system.Alignment of the structure of the local organisation to allow implementation of the SAP system and processes.Responsible for data table extraction and cleaning from legacy system (Visual manufacturing) in preparation for data upload to SAP.Liaison with group ICT team and external consultants Aeonvis for overall system implementation process.

• Responsible for the engineering support team and in addition introduction of specifications for a new range of industrial power burners ranging up to 21MMBtu in dual fuel applications.

Responsible for the management of B2B sales utilizing teams for both the United States and Canada consisting of 11 area managers and approximately 25 manufacturer’s representatives.Responsible for the sales budget and administration of pricing for OEM’s, wholesale distribution and manufacturer’s representative network in the US and Canada.Responsible for the company’s marketing activities at HVAC trade shows in North America including AHR, NAOHSM, NEFI, CMX, MEET, MECANEX.

Direction and supervision of the Operations Team distributed through the following departments; Production, Customer Engineering, Testing and Development Laboratory, Quality Assurance, Technical Field Support and Training, Purchasing and Material Planning and Control.

Direction and supervision of the Engineering/Field Support functions distributed through the following departments; Customer Engineering, Testing and Development Laboratory, Quality Assurance, Technical Field Support and Training.

OEM Account Manager for UK cooking appliance market.Main customer contact for key accounts in all areas of the business including commercial, logistic, technical and quality issues.The application of state of the art controls produced and designed by SIT Group for the domestic/commercial heating and domestic cooking appliance markets.Identification of potential markets for group products and the specification of controls to meet the market requirements.

Responsible for the application of state of the art controls for domestic heating appliances.Support of applications in conjunction with the customers R&D resources.

Participating as a key member of a concurrent product design team in the gas boiler industry, involved in the specification and testing of electrical and electronic controls to be used for original equipment manufacture.Projects undertaken were for the UK and European markets and involved extensive European travel.The work was at the forefront of condensing boiler technology, utilising 1:1 gas/air ratio controls and advanced digital electronics in high output domestic combination appliances.