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Manchester, England, Gb

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Asset Performance Management applications are designed for maintenance, reliability, process and operational teams to deliver on operational excellence and sustainability goals by optimizing asset availability, ensuring product quality and quantifying risk/reward of plant and enterprise decisions.

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Providing key customers with process availability improvement and extended equipment life between outage by supporting their digital transformation with value services and products from our Digital Solutions portfolio.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

• Responsible for driving and growing new business by providing end users with value added services and products including rotating equipment performance services and tailored value propositions including but not limited to; condition monitoring products and services, asset management, lubrication best practices, customer training and bearing products.• Led and supported various Root Cause Analysis’ on customer sites using proven technologies such as the 5 whys method and the Ishikawa… Show more • Responsible for driving and growing new business by providing end users with value added services and products including rotating equipment performance services and tailored value propositions including but not limited to; condition monitoring products and services, asset management, lubrication best practices, customer training and bearing products.• Led and supported various Root Cause Analysis’ on customer sites using proven technologies such as the 5 whys method and the Ishikawa (fishbone) technique leading to plant changes and bearing optimisations leading to an increase in MTBF.• Responsible for completing reliability benchmarking (Client Needs Analysis), profiling (MTBR, OEE, MDT etc.) and auditing (Wrench Time, Maintenance Assessments, Lubrication Audits) to identify reliability and maintenance gains to build structured Rotating Equipment Performance improvement programs based on SKF’s asset efficiency optimisation model.• Responsible for growth and account management of direct services accounts within the heavy industries sector, achieving 10% growth versus 2018.• Led and won complex negotiations, ITT’s and RFQ’s for major blue chip companies leading to contract awards including product, services, and other value added solutions worth in excess of £300K a year.• Constant customer engagement at plant management level including senior management of engineering, procurement and operations entailing a customer focused mindset to enable a tailored rotating equipment performance approach rather than solely product based ensuring maximum benefit for SKF and the end user. Show less

Emea

Carrying out feasibility studies for new performance and managed reliability programs around the EMEA region as part of John Crane’s Performance Plus Central Team; working with and presenting feedback to regional sales engineers, country managers and key customer stakeholders globally to deliver and win long term reliability improvement programs.Carrying out Reliability Engineering and Asset Management profiling and trending for various Performance Plus programs all over the region… Show more Carrying out feasibility studies for new performance and managed reliability programs around the EMEA region as part of John Crane’s Performance Plus Central Team; working with and presenting feedback to regional sales engineers, country managers and key customer stakeholders globally to deliver and win long term reliability improvement programs.Carrying out Reliability Engineering and Asset Management profiling and trending for various Performance Plus programs all over the region including MTBR trending, Bad Actor Bathtubs, Bathtubs, Paretos and Focus Analysis of program assets and their sealing systems leading to actions and upgrades ultimately increasing the time between failure and the reduction of the Total Cost of Ownership of these program assets. Driving business development regionally by presenting to local and global customer accounts to drive feasibility studies and contract awards as well as additional John Crane solutions. This also includes creating technical and commercial proposals, tracking and developing opportunities within the sale funnel and presenting training sessions to new employees as well as local sales engineers around the region on service solutions and performance contracts to help drive new Performance Plus opportunities. Show less

Uk , Nationwide

- Started out as a CBM trainee and have gradually progressed through to engineer status within the company providing support for technicians, trainees and apprentices based throughout the UK carrying out predictive maintenance tasks such as vibration monitoring.- Carrying out analysis and reporting of collected vibration data using specialist software such as Odyssey, Windrock (Reciprocating Compressor collection) and Machine Sentry. - Site Engineer at ESSAR Stanlow oil refinery… Show more - Started out as a CBM trainee and have gradually progressed through to engineer status within the company providing support for technicians, trainees and apprentices based throughout the UK carrying out predictive maintenance tasks such as vibration monitoring.- Carrying out analysis and reporting of collected vibration data using specialist software such as Odyssey, Windrock (Reciprocating Compressor collection) and Machine Sentry. - Site Engineer at ESSAR Stanlow oil refinery carrying out CM and reporting directly back to process engineers as well as senior rotating equipment engineers.- Implemented various remote vibration monitoring programs including site building, base readings and installation of remote accelerometers for to allow accurate measurements and safe access.- Experience within FMCG factories and Food manufacturing plants during time as a Mobile CBM technician.- Basic experience with online condition monitoring systems such as System 1 and portable dynamic analyzer systems like ZonicBook and ADRE. Show less

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Carried out a broad-based engineering apprenticeship unsponsored in fields such as Mechanical, Process and Control, Electrical, Instrumentation and Fitting with a mechanical bias in the second year which included; use and operation of machine shop tools, understanding of rotating equipment, reciprocating equipment and predictive maintenance strategies. The above was carried out whilst also studying for BTEC level 3 in mechanical engineering and a NVQ Level 3 in Process and Engineering… Show more Carried out a broad-based engineering apprenticeship unsponsored in fields such as Mechanical, Process and Control, Electrical, Instrumentation and Fitting with a mechanical bias in the second year which included; use and operation of machine shop tools, understanding of rotating equipment, reciprocating equipment and predictive maintenance strategies. The above was carried out whilst also studying for BTEC level 3 in mechanical engineering and a NVQ Level 3 in Process and Engineering Maintenance before being employed by AVT Reliability to complete the apprenticeship. Show less

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng) Hons, Mechanical Engineering

Studied with the Open University alongside full time employment.

Hnc Mechanical Engineering, Hnc Mechanical Engineering, Pass Merit (2:1)

Completed at Deeside College on behalf of Glyndwr University on day release with previous employer over two years, covering topics such.

Nvq Level 3, Process And Engineering Maintenance

Broad based engineering apprenticeship in fields such as mechanical, process, instrumentation, electrical and fitting before taking.

Btec Level 3, Mechanical Engineering, Merit Merit

Broad based engineering apprenticeship in fields such as mechanical, process, instrumentation, electrical and fitting before taking.

Gcse, A-C

11 GCSE's Studied at Helsby High School. Subjects included: Mathematics (B), English (B+B), Chemistry (A), Biology (A), Physics (B).