Professional Experience....Lead 300+ people site-wide on manufacturing activities, including 6 extrusion press lines, Die Shop, Ageing, Packing, Fabrication, Warehouse, Shipping, Process Engineers, Anodising in support of planned growth and improved operational efficiency.Selected achievements.......Established daily, weekly and monthly operational systems and KPI`s to help drive quality, on time delivery, equipment up-time and Plant Safety....Served 6 months as interim Plant Manager pending hire of local Chinese Plant Manager. Supported the effective on boarding plan....Enabled rapid ramp up of production workforce through hiring, training and motivation of 300+ people for a new business project serving a highly demanding/high profile customer....Lead team of 5 foreign Sapa experts on assignment to support rapid growth....Close interaction with Sales and Quality and final decisions for new products review, customer visits and claim reduction.

Largest independant UK Aluminium Extrusion/Fabrication CompanyLead a 2 Press Extrusions Operation and Development of Fabrication/Value Adding Facility. Manage all aspects of the Extrusion and Fabrication process to ensure achievement of Best performance from operations in terms of customer service, reliability, productivity and cost.

World Leading Aluminium Extrusion Company, Sapa Group (2,900M£) – Sapa Profiles UK (80M£) Lead a 2 Press Extrusions plant and Anodizing Plant. Manage all aspects of the Extrusion and Anodizing process to ensure achievement of Best performance from operations in terms of customer service, reliability, productivity and cost.Selected Achievements:• Restructured shifts, roles and responsibilities. • 5% Process planning recovery gains, scrap reduction programme and implementation of Best Recovery tool into the Planning Process.• Re-organized material flow – contributing to reduced man hrs/ton and improved delivery performance. • Introduced Packing at the Press process – re-design of complete process lay-out (reduction of WIP by 65% - reduction of man hours/ net tones produced by 40% between 2008 and 2010 YTD.• Time and Attendance, inc absence control, introduced and controlled. Absence now >2%• Support Group MTS Team on other site Press-line/Process Benchmarking Improvement programmes.• Turn Anodizing Plant into own Profit Centre, M2/Man Hr from 188 to 246 improvements. • EHS Lost time working from 4 in 2007 to zero 2010 YTD – Managed through awareness programmes which include Ergonomics, Behavioural, and risk assessment.• In-house team Events Analysis to process map current situation and identify improvement opportunities• 15% Headcount reduction programme through improvement initiatives • Implementation of Work Lists from Global plan to available for shipment.• Formal planning assessment manning review for all key reports each quarter.

World Leading Aluminium Extrusion Company, Alcoa Group (3,900M£) – Alcoa Banbury UK (130M£) Operational Management of shift based 5 Press Extrusions and Post Press plant. 220 direct reports inc 6 Process Specialists and circa 18 Team Leaders with 40,000 tonnes mill finish business. Selected Achievements:• Alcoa Innovation Gold Impact Award for leading a European/UK cost reduction project resulting in £500,000 manning/materials cost taken out of business.• Re-organized material flow – Load to Lorry development - Cell by Cell Organisation.• Development of simplified packing methods, Pack at Press with visual standardized control documents. • Run to Recipe and Alcoa Best Practice Implementation, Productivity, Recovery, OTD improvements.• Leadership succession planning/training and employee development.• Ergonomic, behavioural safety culture engrained in all areas of the process.