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• The delivery of robust design engineering solutions on time, on cost and on spec with a keen focus on quality through a team of skilled design and mechanical engineers.• Deliverables driven reviews with the design teams across multiple projects to assess risk and readiness for milestone and transfers. Guiding the team through the tools and processes to accurately assess any design engineering risk. Diving into any risks that were out of control to manage and mitigate.• Identified… Show more • The delivery of robust design engineering solutions on time, on cost and on spec with a keen focus on quality through a team of skilled design and mechanical engineers.• Deliverables driven reviews with the design teams across multiple projects to assess risk and readiness for milestone and transfers. Guiding the team through the tools and processes to accurately assess any design engineering risk. Diving into any risks that were out of control to manage and mitigate.• Identified significant cost savings in our test overheads and successfully pitched proposals to the President of Beauty. Saving £250K annually.• Project management and allocation of all 50+ engineers under me across the multiple projects, assessing project demand based on T-shirt sizing and project deliverables in line with the Dyson product creation framework.• Product behaviours and feature development process owner for the wider engineering team, ensuring team members were trained in the process of creating user requirements and technical solutions for the software team.• Ensuring the team were trained an actively using the tools within the Dyson mechanical design process, as a set of tools that made up supplementary deliverables required for product feasibility.• Heading up the product validation team, running internal and external user trails to assess the product against the stakeholder requirements and delivery against product attributes leadership strategy.• Managing a team of lab owners across 3 labs, championing H&S across the whole team. Working with site services and estates to kick of large lab improvement projects.• Applied a structured systems engineering methodology to project planning and team structure, ensuring comprehensive requirements gathering, system design, and integration. Show less

• Managing teams of engineers working across multiple projects to deliver robust design solutions. Working in tandem with other engineering managers to deliver to the product vision. Transferring products to a solution demonstrated level to South East Asia for tooling and production.• Overseeing user interface design and best practice across our whole range of personal care products.

As a senior designer for Mamas & Papas I work designing ODM product predominantly for the travel & transport and nursery equipment categories. I work through the whole design process from concept to production, realising the concepts, designing and proving the mechanical principles that allow the products to function and the DFM of the products.Responsibilities• Time and project management for a team of designers and multi-tasking between numerous live design jobs.… Show more As a senior designer for Mamas & Papas I work designing ODM product predominantly for the travel & transport and nursery equipment categories. I work through the whole design process from concept to production, realising the concepts, designing and proving the mechanical principles that allow the products to function and the DFM of the products.Responsibilities• Time and project management for a team of designers and multi-tasking between numerous live design jobs. • Concept generation for new products. Building testing rigs to prove product principles and assess the user experience.• Detail design of new products comprising predominately of plastic injection moulded parts and metal fabrication as well as the integration of fabrics. • Mechanical testing and design validation of concepts.• Tracking product cost throughout the design process to understand the projected product FOB costs before supplier engagement.• Creation engineering drawings for supplier engagement• Supplier liaison in the far east • Working with product developers and in-house test lab to ensure all the products pass global compliance requirements• Structural packaging solutions for nursery equipment products, understanding the business and consumer needs for the packaging. • Documenting the development of new products and creating presentations for the company directors to keep them updated on the direction and progress of projects.• Competitors’ products analysis. • Manager of the ODM workshop and prototyping space. Show less