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East Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Ensuring product development is optimized for product realization and design transfer for long-term profitability and high customer satisfaction​. Complex R&D programs that have pressure on time, cost and quality. ​. Programs / Projects that need and require international collaboration and where there is a need to build cross-functional high performing.

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

The role is to be the bridge between product development and the commercial teams. Participating in the business gate reviews ensuring that the programs can reduce the time to cash from its engineering investment through an effective product release process. Responsible to ensure all Sales and Marketing needs are fully captured with a handshake with.

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for ALL conventional Linac programs with the overall responsibility for program delivery from concept design through to full unrestricted commercial release globally using an Agile development methodology for delivery. Responsible for the overall program budget, planning and resource requirements and business reporting. Ensure All business.

Beijing City, China

Responsible for the Legal Entity of EBMS Ltd in China. The entity has the functions associated to Manufacturing, R&D, Service Engineering, Procurement, QA/RA, Finance, HR, Legal etc. i.e. all functions other than commercial operations. The role is to actively support all functions in delivering Elekta’s strategic plan for China. Driving, Couching.

Beijing City, China

Responsible for continuing to transform and manage the Beijing R&D team to be self-sufficient in terms of technical competence and have the required tools to achieve the product creation roadmap for the Compact family of linacs. I am driving LEAN Engineering techniques such as using Decision trees, DFMEAs, PFMEAs, A3s, visual management, progress charts to.

Beijing City, China

Additional responsibilities in supporting the GM in shaping Product Supply Centre China for its next level of excellence as a competence centre for Elekta as well as my responsibilities as R&D Director China.

Elekta

Lead key input into future R&D road map for operations:- manufacturing, procurement logistics and supply chain development and test strategies

Elekta

UK Manufacturing Manager; Responsible for the entire UK Manufacturing operation from Planning, repeat Purchasing, Stores, Assembly, Test and Despatch and support processes such as Quality Control. Achieved year on year productivity improvement at the UK plant. With stacked lead-time reduction of 30%, doubling of stock turns, reduced working capital.

Crawley UK

Responsible for all aspects of system test, ensuring the product met its technical specification and various international regulations, which includes the conformation of the beam physics. During this time I lead a project which reduced test lead-time by 50% by the introduction of automation of significant parts of the test process. This has allowed this.

Crawley UK

Whilst the Purchasing Manager was on maternity leave.Managing a global supply chain, I actively drove towards a strategy of natural hedging; therefore reducing the currency exposure from the sales verses the cost currency mix. I was activity involved in moving a number of suppliers into low cost regions

Crawley UK

Responsible for ensuring the supply chain met the quality requirements for the business. I was responsible for the approval and maintenance of all suppliers associated to the manufacture of linear accelerator. The supplier base was worldwide from China, Europe and USA. I drove the introduction of quality plans and agreements, refined the processes for.

On Location At Hospital

Responsible for the customer first line support, responsible for the day to day service repair and maintenance of five linear accelerators and two simulators at this show piece Oncology Teaching Hospital. This allowed me to fully understand customer requirements and the importance of right 1st time. I was based at the hospital full time, working with the.

Crawley UK

Responsible for day to day technical support for the manufacturing operation. A key aspect of this role was to provide input into new product development (software and hardware), representing all aspects of manufacturing operations as manufacturing leader on a number of business projects, This required me to secure resources from the line organization.

Crawley UK

Responsible for testing and commissioning medical liner accelerators. These complex systems produce high energy X-Rays up to 25Mv for the treatment of cancer; containing a wide range of technologies. Examples: - Precision machined components using a variety of materials Lead, Tungsten, Copper; With a mix of digital and analogue circuits, RF systems 2.5 GHz.

Hove UK

Test EngineerEITB trainee moving to all areas of the organisation