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East Kilbride, United Kingdom

East Kilbride

• Engaged to lead and mentor Drawing Office (DO) staff covering mechanical and hydraulic design of foundry handling equipment, exporting to 175 countries, staff of 52, and £12m+ turnover
• Project managed multiple concurrent international projects, liaising and visiting international agents and customers
• Reported to external funding organisations and multi-national engineering groups
• Identified and drove cost saving initiatives and streamlining interdepartmental processes
• Conducted scoping for new technologies for both products and business operations
• Proposed recommendations to Technical Director and MD on technology and resource planning

East Kilbr, United Kingdom

Heavy mechanical engineering design and development supplying handling and rough-working equipment to foundries worldwide. Stress analysis and fatigue considerations form a significant part of project technical work utilising spreadsheet and FEA tools.

Arbroath

• Responsible as technical and commercial lead on design and development of new large batch confectionary manufacturing equipment, exported to 167 countries, 48 staff, and £15m turnover
• Accountable for work flow through the DO, and project management of bespoke customised products
• Designed Integrated machine systems from equipment specifications for plant installation on site
• Planned and briefed in advance of installation at customer sites, and provided remote support
• Utilised higher sophistication to increase accuracy and repeatability of new machinery designs
• Expanded process versatility through the incorporation of new automation technologies on legacy equipment designs

• Responsible for the design and launch to market of small wind turbines for multiple sectors
• Completed mechanical, electrical and software designs, then sourced and liaised with international suppliers to ensure accuracy of components within tight budgetary constraints
• Project managed legislative compliance requirements within a heavily regulated sector
• Utilised existing and potential customer input to design market challenging equipment to market leader’s product offering.
• Successfully concluded the project early and negotiated the effective disposal of associated IP

• Appointed to manage 11 drawing office staff for the technical development of bespoke automated medical device and electronics manufacturing solutions, integrating pneumatic, multi-axis robotic and linear actuator.
• Full responsibility for regulatory compliance, budget control, and technological project output
• Successfully developed high pressure water injection medical device manufacturing system, including £1.5m business case to develop automatic manufacturing process, devising most efficient assembly tooling

Design and development of an intelligent probe to test human tissue compliance during ‘keyhole’ surgery for generating a Virtual Reality surgical simulator with a realistic feel.

Beng, Mechanical Engineering

Mba, Technology Management