As the Environmental Validation Manager, I lead a team of 25 talented engineers across three locations in the UK, France, and Bulgaria. In this pivotal role, I am entrusted with ensuring the reliability and resilience of our cutting-edge automotive electronics products through environmental validation and EMC testing processes.Key Responsibilities:Strategic Leadership: Spearheading the development and execution of comprehensive environmental validation strategies and process aligned with our organizational objectives and industry standards.Team Management and Development: Nurturing a high-performing team of engineers by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for skill enhancement, resulting in a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. Established a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing within the dispersed.Cross-Site Collaboration: Facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing among teams located across multiple sites, fostering innovation and synergy in our approach to environmental validation.Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivating strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including Engineering, Product Management, Finance and Quality teams, to ensure alignment of validation activities with product development timelines and quality standards.Technical Expertise: Leveraging my deep understanding of environmental stresses, including thermal, vibration, and EMC testing, to drive the adoption of best practices and innovative solutions in product validation methodologies.

Validation manager leading engineering team responsible for ensuring products meet intended function, including EMC (Electromagnetic Compliance) and environmental testing.Leading the global validation management team with process optimisation. Responsibility for product assurance global best practice.Direct management of UK team of engineers and technicians.

Product Development Manager responsible for the technical quote, design, development, validation and production launch of the Ford Kuga instrument cluster. Management of globally diverse multi-disciplined product development team.Planning and managing of program delivery. Aligning customer, internal and supplier product timing and gateways. Management of program risks and issues and development of mitigation plans.Planning project team resource and skill requirements. Ensures alignment to timing, cost and quality requirements.Quality Assurance. Champions the teams use of quality tools and processes. Change Management. Excels at capturing, tracking, planning and delivery of internally and externally driven product changesIssue Management – Leads specialist teams in the resolution of technical and quality issues.

Project Manager responsible for restructuring interior trim business on the Honda CR-V and Toyota Yaris in Europe.Management of the outsourcing of production from Visteon UK manufacturing plants. Planning and implementing transfers. Ensuring that customer production and quality requirements were fulfilled during the transition period.Development and launch of a direct shipping operation from Visteon tier 2 suppliers to Honda. Implementation of new IT systems, logistics routes, payment and revenue process. Outsourcing of accounting and profit centre to Hungary. Registration of new company for UK VAT. Lowering overhead and reducing taxation.Management of cross functional launch team, Finance, IT, Purchase, Logistics, Quality and Manufacturing.Lead new business quotations. Oversee quote preparation team consisting of engineering, manufacturing, purchase, logistics and finance. Present quote proposal at price decision meeting. Prepare and submit quote to customer.

Engineering responsibilty for the Ford, Mazda, Volvo "C" Platform Air Induction System