Benjamin Swain Email & Phone Number

Newark, England, United Kingdom

Started role 1st December 2023.

East Leake

Team Leader for the Finishing Products Optimisation Team within the Technical Department. I currently lead and develop a talented team of 6 people, including 2 site-experienced plasterers, 2 project leaders, 1 senior scientist and a university placement student. All of these people have different backgrounds, experiences and skill sets, which contributes.

East Leake

Team Leader for the Local Powders Team within the Technical department. Promoted to this role permanently after successful 12 months covering as Powders Product Development Manager whilst line manager on maternity leave. This involved managing and developing a talented team of 5 people from various backgrounds and with different experiences and skills.Team.

East Leake

Project Leader for the technical element of a major project, looking into improving the quality of the UK's best selling finish coat building plaster. Project focussed on investigations into manufacturing process impacts on product quality, how to control them and return the quality of finished product back to baseline standards that customers loved. This.

East Leake, England, United Kingdom

Senior manager within the Technical department whilst line manager on maternity leave. Managed, led and developed a team of 7 people and covered all roles of the job, including contributing to senior manager weekly meetings and monthly company project and product review teams (IBM process). Future planning, CAPEX applications and people development plans.

East Leake

• This role involved development of new building plasters and maintaining British Gypsum’s core products to a high quality for customers. I have delivered new innovative products to market that have expanded the.
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD) - gathering customer requirements and linking them to critical technical measures and plant process controls.
• TRIZ, designed experiments (DOE), design for six sigma (DFSS) & robustness design testing.
• Rapid prototyping - installed in the real world at the earliest stage possible to gain valuable insights.
• Continuous improvement of manufacturing processes using Six Sigma tools (measurement system analysis, SOPs & control plans).
• Liaising with internal and external customers: insights from product installers, e.g. plasterers; stakeholder management with marketing, supply chain, operations and sales teams through to exec level across British.

East Leake, Loughborough

Completed Project Leadership training to aid my current and future development projects, particularly launching Thistle Spray Finish (2 years development) and Thistle Uni-Finish plaster (3 years). Creating the link between what customers want and how we develop products to match these requirements (Quality Function Deployment (QFD) training).Upon starting.

Cambridgeshire

- Handled customer requirements face to face and via telephone/email/social network facilities.- Interaction and communication with the local community and other tradesmen.- Worked independently and as part of a team to overcome various problems.- Acquired many skills and trades whilst working on numerous new build sites & in customer's homes in an RMI.

Bachelor’S Degree, Forensic Science, First Class Honours

Modules included: - Presentation & Media Skills - Numeracy Skills - Expert witness report - Cross examination by a professional barrister.

Six Sigma Black Belt (Certified), Process Improvement (Statistic Driven), Certified

Fully Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Chemistry

A-Levels: Biology [B], Mathematics [C], Chemistry [D], Physics [D] GCSE's: Science [A**], Mathematics [A], Graphic Products [A], History.