As the Managing Director of Guardior, a leader in secure logistics for major capital infrastructure projects and premier provider of welcome staff to the festivals and events industry, at the helm of a dynamic organisation dedicated to shaping secure and seamless experiences.🛡️ Secure Logistics for Capital Infrastructure: Guardior specialises in providing end-to-end secure logistics solutions for capital infrastructure projects. We excel in:🛡️ Security and Risk Management: Our approach prioritises safety and risk mitigation throughout every project phase.🛡️ Physical Security: We deploy state-of-the-art security measures to safeguard critical materials, equipment, and sites.🛡️ Advanced Technology: Leveraging cutting-edge technologies like biometrics and CCTV for enhanced security.🛡️ Secure Material Movement: We optimise material coordination and transportation for project efficiency.🛡️ Access and Egress Control: Ensuring controlled site access and exit for authorised personnel.🛡️ Site Set Up: Efficiently establishing secure project sites for optimal workflow.🛡️ Pioneering Welcome Staff Solutions: Guardior is also a trusted name in providing welcome staff services to renowned event organisers in the festivals and events industries. Our team contributes to enhancing guest experiences and ensuring event success.🛡️ Operational Excellence: In my role, I've been instrumental in steering Guardior toward operational excellence, overseeing strategy development, financial management, and the implementation of innovative solutions.🛡️ Strategic Collaborations: I foster strategic partnerships with industry leaders, project stakeholders, and event organisers. These collaborations drive synergy and support the achievement of our clients' goals.

Collaborating with the Board of Directors to uphold the company's legal responsibilities, promote ethical and responsible practices, and ensure the fulfillment of Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental commitments. Defining and executing corporate strategic and operational goals while upholding a superior level of service for our stakeholders.

The National Association of Shopfitters (NAS) has successfully represented and promoted the shopfitting and interior contracting sector since 1919. Interior contracting is a constantly evolving industry, driven by technology and a growing global market that is always looking for new ideas and distinctive approaches.The NAS is governed by an elected Board which sets the industry's policy and direction and is responsible for promotion of the association, support for its membership, skills and training, Health and Safety standards and championing technical innovation in the industry.Offering expert guidance and specialist advice, the NAS brand is recognised by designers and clients alike as the symbol of quality and reliability in shopfitting and interior contracting.

Responsible for ensuring that the business has the best working environment and processes, evaluating how the business operates. Managing the implementation of business guidelines and strategies, working with other department heads to ensure everything runs smoothly and in accordance with company guidelines. • Ensuring financial targets and other agreed targets are met in all departments.• Setting financial budgets that are attainable, whilst delivering attainable growth for the business. • Reviewing working practices to ascertain if it is successful and if not, devise an alternative.• Setting Health and Safety agenda, ensuring that the business is compliant and exceeds industry standards, and that regulations are understood and followed. • Working with workers, employees and suppliers to ensure that they are motivated and deliver on the company’s expectations and high standards. • Setting values and mission statement and making it real, ensuring that the business operates within its own values and meets its mission statements. • Ensuring that the company maintains high standards at all time, whilst investigating customer satisfaction and reporting any issues for resolution. • Developing a senior management structure, working with department heads to get the best performance from the team. • Driving the business to increase market share, and increase profitability. • Working with the senior management team to ensure that equipment needs are reviewed, and approved. • Reviewing of tenders and leading all bids, attendance at customer pre/ post tender bid meetings.• Leading commercial matters with operations team to ensure that all projects are profitable, whilst delivering customer requirements.

Working as part of the Board of Directors to ensure that the company meets its statutory obligations, is run ethically and responsibly whilst ensuring that Health, Safety, Security and Environmental obligations are met and maintained. Setting out the companies strategic and operational objectives and maintaining a high standard of service to its stakeholders.

Providing leadership and management to the business and fully responsible for the day-to-day running of various departments. Focused on developing programmes that deliver efficiencies and playing a leading role in the mobilisation, development and implementation of robust operational processes.Duties• Directing various business departments to ensure the smooth running of the company.• Resolving contractual and commercial issues and disputes.• Training and leading a large team, providing discipline and performance feedback. • Developing positive direct relationships with key business contacts. • Scheduling workload to meet priorities and targets. • Possessing personality, energy & charisma to inspire, lead and develop staff.• Analysing complex data and documentation. • Promoting QHSE compliance at every opportunity.• Involved in the recruitment and mentoring of new staff. • Responsible for achieving all performance related targets. • Ensuring that best practice is followed in safety, legality and quality of service.• Developing and supporting a cross functional culture of continuous improvement.• Assisting company accountants in the formulation of forecasts and budgets.• Maintaining excellent relationships with clients and suppliers.• Undertaking staff performance reviews.KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES• Excellent hands on management & communications skills.• Able to communicate and present confidently, clearly and expressively. • Accustomed to working with senior management. • Able to think laterally to create options and solutions.• Skilled negotiator, with proven experience in a commercial environment.

Working closely with the operations team to safely deliver projects on time and on budget. Includes procurement strategy and building customer relations. Responsible for reducing costs and improving margins through the development of organisational capabilities. Also acting as the focal point for customer liaison & promoting client / supplier relations.Duties• Responsible for safe delivery of projects to schedule and cost.• Manage Project Teams from project initiation through to Project completion.• Providing leadership to internal project teams and clients.• Maintaining customer relationship to achieve long-term retention & satisfaction.• Reporting project progress to a project clients & senior management.• Promoting QHSE compliance at every opportunity.• Coordinating personnel & managing contractors. • Promptly escalating any quality or integrity issues.• Identifying project risks and planning with appropriate people to resolve them.• Responsible for Project definition, process management, documentation and resource allocation.KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES• Willing to take responsibility for delivery of all aspects of assigned Projects.• Experience of planning & managing projects lasting from a few days to 12 months.• Ability to work to tight timescales and key milestones.• Prepared for some domestic and international travel as required.• Highly numerate and analytical. • Creative thinker, excellent communicator and influencer.

• Responsible for safe delivery of projects to schedule and cost.• Manage Project Teams from project initiation through to Project completion.• Providing leadership to internal project teams and clients.• Maintaining customer relationship to achieve long-term retention & satisfaction.• Reporting project progress to a project clients & senior management.• Promoting QHSE compliance at every opportunity.• Coordinating personnel & managing contractors. • Promptly escalating any quality or integrity issues.• Identifying project risks and planning with appropriate people to resolve them.• Responsible for Project definition, process management, documentation and resource allocation.

Working with the contractor and Manchester Airport (MAG) to devise and develop a fully costed logistics model for the expansion of the MANTP Project. Working with pre-construction directors, health and safety, cost managers, design teams and local supply chain to ensure a robust logistics plan that would ultimately be used to deliver a £480mil project in a live airport environment.• Attendance at bid meetings and negotiations.• Working with the bid team to draw out their requirements to ensure that correct planning in place for construction, inclusive of welfare arrangements, car parking, bussing, health and safety, security, airside/ landside islands, warehousing/ consolidation, plant arrangements, recruitment, public transportation, traffic management, hoarding/ fence lines, security screening, Corporate and Social Responsibility, etc. • Presentation of plans and development to the pre-construction team.• Development of site logistics plan, waste management plan, health and safety plan and traffic management plan.• Develop fully costed logistics scope of works.• Work with design team to develop the logistics plan into a step by step logistics model.• Engage with local supply chain and labour suppliers to ensure that we are resourcing locally supplied labour and materials wherever possible.

Construction Logistics consultancy and Technical Author.

Site based training with college release.

Placement running alongside university studies.