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Havant

Havant

• Develop creative solutions for the Kenwood customer, individually and as part of a development team. • Development and the testing of small domestic appliances.• Management of the day to day running of a busy development workshop: machine maintenance, workload planning, 3D printer care, procurement of tooling and workshop equipment, 3D printer material stock, consumables, and materials stock. o Objet Eden 260V Poly-jet rapid prototype machineo Fortus 450mc rapid prototype machineo Roland 4 axis CNC machineo Lathe and millo Band saws o Linishero Grinder • Assessments of competencies for workshop staff and provide training where appropriate. • Management and undertaking risk assessments of equipment use and high risk areas.• Produce 3D and 2D drawings for mass production parts, prototype units, jigs and fixtures using Siemens NX.• Create and fabricate prototypes, jigs & fixtures.• Produce publicity and instructional videos for internal and external use.• Create 2D floor plans for site improvement.• Product & component testing using laboratory test equipment• Fault finding and validation of pre-production products in the UK laboratory & Chinese manufacturing plant.• Technical report writing using MS Word & Excel.• Procured new equipment to replace time expired equipment within the development workshop and development lab.• First aider.• 5S Team Coordinator and Champion.Patents working at Kenwood:o PATENT – STAND MIXERS - EP2800623 (A1) ― GRANTED 2014-11-12o PATENT – PASTA EXTRUDER – EP3054819 (A1) ― GRANTED 2016-08-17o PATENT – ICE CRUSHER – US2016242600 (A1) ― GRANTED 2016-08-25o PATENT – INTERLOCK MECHANISM - WO2018051143 (A1) GRANTED ― 2018-03-22o PATENT – BAR EXTRUDER – (TBC)o PATENT – DUAL START SCROLL – (TBC)o PATENT – TEA INFUSION TECHNIQUE – GB2558597A A1 2018-07-18o PATENT – MANDOLIN KITCHEN MACHINE ATTACHMENT – (TBC)o PATENT – CUTTING TOOL AND ADAPTOR GB2553854A 2018-03-21

Hampshire

• Assemble pumps and motors to a very high tolerance.• Document builds & maintaining a clean and safe work area.

Romsey

• Fusion bonding, pipes and fittings.• Welding both PVC & Polypropylene.• Fabricating water / chemical tanks up to 25,000 litres.• Dual containment piping and tanks.• Producing Display and Product Boards for sales team.• Working from 2D and 3D drawings.• Working alongside a drawing office to make changes and improvements.• Making jigs and fixtures.• Mills, Lathes, Saws (wall, band, circular and jig) and linishers.

Hampshire

• Welding PVC & Polypropylene, fusion bonding of pipes and fittings• Working on R &D projects for new machinery.• Fabricating water / chemical tanks, ranging from a few litres to very large storage tanks.• Fabricating large plating lines from CNC nested sheets & fabricating reel to reel plating lines.• Fitting pumps, filters, spray heads, rollers and fans in a number of different applications• Running up plating lines, filling tanks with cleaning agents, water and acid.• Some electrical fitting experience (pumps, sensors, heaters, etc).• Cleaning lines to prevent contamination.• Precision fitment of plastic side frames to hold rollers on lines up to 7 meters long.• Design and fabrication of touch screen housings, overflow & leak trays.• Working with drawing office to make changes and improvements.• Modification and trouble shooting of specialty equipment at customer sites. Including follow up visits, off site problem solving and conversing with customers to finalize inasterlations ensuring customer satisfaction.

Hampshire

• Lathes & mills, surface / cylindrical grinders as well as limited CNC experience.• Producing Jigs and Fixtures, as well as parts for production.

Hnc Mechanical Engineering

Onc, Mechanical Engineering, Pass

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