Benjamin Rae Email & Phone Number

Leeds, Gb

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

• Generation of projects, through customer engagement, scoping, seeking funding, bid writing, projectmanagement• Oversight of technical delivery, creating milestones, benchmarking progress, planning tasks• Management of technical resources, including people, and equipment• Contributed to generation or delivery of projects worth approximately £620,000 in last 12 months• Planning and purchasing of capital equipment• Roadmapping, developing strategy and planning, both internally and with a wider focus as a delegate to HVMC (funding body)• Plus many of the technical responsibilities listed for previous role as Research Engineer• Research focus on digital systems and programming for robotics, in the context of subtractive manufacturing - within Nuclear manufacturing and decomissioning sectors.

• Research and development of advanced manufacturing processes, with a particular interest in industrialrobotics and digital technologies - addressing new industrial processes, automating currently manual ones, or improving the performance of existing techniques• In-depth modelling of manufacturing problems and understanding of available technology• Integration of complex sensors and equipment• The use of various programming languages and techniques• The production of detailed reports and scientific papers• Contributed to various commercial and internal projects focused on robot autonomy, part localisation, andprocess monitoring & optimisation