Christopher Farrell Email & Phone Number

Bonnyrigg, Gb

Haddington, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Haddington

Working as a senior manager within the medical and engineering industry with a world-renowned company based in Haddington.• Part of the senior leadership team, responsible for managing all Quality Assurance and Compliance requirements, resourcing and activities across the business• Directly reporting to the Managing Director and defining business level strategies, goals and objectives and driving successful results through all levels of the business.• Led the migration from ISO 9001:2008 to ISO 9001:2015• Led and managed the integration of the Company Management System, including the ISO 9001:2015 and benchmarking business model to QSR and CFR820, UL and CSA requirements • Delivered a CoPQ reduction with 80% reduction in customer non-conformities and a 90% reduction in internal scrap due to poor quality product and processes.• Delivery of projects, implementing continuous improvements across all levels of Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance and Compliance process controls to a defined industry standard• Creating and managing manufacturing and quality assurance process control documents to meet and sustain a successful Business Management System through all business levels • Leading and driving a team of Quality Engineers, Technicians and Inspectors in creating, measuring and sustaining world-class standards of operations in alignment with Business policies and accreditations.• Developed employees across the group in different levels of problem solving and continuous improvements by Appliying Lean tools and techniques across the business, including problem solving methods utilising the PDCA and DMAIC processes while delivering coaching, mentoring and positive leadership.

Glenrothes

Responsible for the management and development of a team of Quality Assurance Engineers within a prime area of the business.Driving continuous improvement initiatives and CoPQ program's across all QMS, cross disciplinary and process areas.In parallel, Senior QAE also includes the following areas.• Working directly with Military products and strict requirements• Actively drives and controls MRB's, FRB's and CAB's to obtain full Root Cause and Corrective Action analysis• Actively schedule, manage and carry out internal and external surveillance and compliance audits to schedule• Actively participates and independently reviews plant FMEA's and defect review reporting• Core attendee in Lifecycle management, production and local engineering meetings• Actively working as a core discipline with 8D/DMAIC problem solving activities• Actively working directly with customers and their requirements• Working to various quality standards including ISO9001, AS9100 and AS9102• Actively working within various IPT's and liaise between Management, Engineering group and Production• Follow and implement HR Polices and procedures• Working as part of an ITAR controlled areas

Product Assurance Team Lead within Advanced Targeting managing a group of senior quality engineers. Main role responsibilities include ensuring appropriate provision of Quality support throughout project lifecycle and all production process activities for various prime project areas - from customer specification reviews for new business tenders, bids, ETC's/BOE's, internal & supply chain AS9100 special process and surveillance audits to controlling IPT level MRB's/FRB's /FMEA/8D/DMAIC activities.

Responsible for the Edinburgh Site for all In-Service Product Assurance related activities. This includes the following areas.• Working directly with three other UK Sites to support all In-Service related activities• Routinely travelling between UK sites to attend regular workshops/forums• Generate and control UK wide Business Improvement Plans across all UK sites• Work with Common process/practices and share Lessons learned, progress and improvements• Dual role function along with carrying out an IPT Senior Product Assurance Role.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for various prime projects within the Advanced Targeting division at Edinburgh. This includes the following areas.• Responsible for reviewing contract requirements, development of Quality group work packages for project QA, Supplier QA and all supporting disciplines.• Working directly with Military and Aerospace Laser products• Working in a class 1 clean room with compulsory clean room suiting• Actively drives and controls MRB's and FRB's to obtain full Root Cause and Corrective Action analysis• Actively participate in plant FMEA's and defect review reporting• Actively participate in Lifecycle, operations and local engineering meetings• Actively working as a core discipline with 8D/DMAIC problem solving activities• Actively working with contractors and vendors to improve quality of their products• Actively working directly with customers from initial concept SOW review through to full scale production• Working to various quality standards including AS9100 and AS9102• Actively working within various IPT's and liaise between Management, Engineering group and the shop floor• Responsible for initiating and controlling IPT Quality related work packages• Follow and implement HR Polices and procedures• Working as part of an ITAR controlled area

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Designed and developed state of the art military laser receiving systems• Provided engineering advice and support to production and testing departments• Adhered to strict timescales and budgets• Liased with customers and suppliers• Produced regular progress reports• Created and Integrated Product Team to promote strong ties and to remove the barriers between the mechanical, optical and thermal engineering groups• Experienced in PCB definition, layout and tracking, cableform design, grounding techniques and RFI mitigation design for manufacture, production and support• Working in a Class A clean room environment, vacuum, thermal and vibration chamber areas

Bachelor Of Engineering (Hons), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Beng Honors

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