Daniel Thacker Email & Phone Number

• Duties involve preparing, upgrading, installing, servicing and repairing as well as emergency call-outs on press brakes, mechanical and hydraulic guillotines and Plasma CNC machines.
• Duties on CO2 lasers, CNC routers and fibre lasers are also undertaken
• Planning and liaising with customers on arrival and keeping customers informed of progress and potential future visits which may be required
• Arranging and organising various teams in a variety of situations
• Providing customers with both training and technical support
• Adherence to various site health and safety requirements

• Making improvements, modifications and generating ideas for current and upcoming products and processes.
• Drive cost engineering to improve company profit while maintaining product quality and performance.
• Provide support and analysis for products under quality investigation
• Support manufacturing operations & quality control at times of need
• Take responsibility and supervise plant trials on new developments and ensure quality & production are fully supported
• Maintain laboratory records and data system for projects and products and S.O.P’s

• Duties involve testing raw materials, finished goods and production trials from different regions
• Adapting and optimizing formulations to tolerate local raw materials
• Conducting ANSI, EN and QA tests to define the performance of adhesives, grouts and leveling compounds to international standards as well as developing existing ANSI and EN Test Equipment
• Investigating and optimizing current production machinery including researching and developing new materials to use in the production process
• Designing and maintaining spreadsheets, writing lab reports and organizing meetings to present results, findings and conclusions

Manchester, United Kingdom

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

• Duties involve testing raw materials, finished goods, mixer capability trials and production trials in accordance with defined test schedules as well as the provision of support for improvement projects.
• Analytical and testing support to identify causes of both internal and non-conformance and customer complaints, and identification of corrective actions which may be required.
• Prioritizing and conducting testing according to the requirements of dispatch and incoming raw materials as well as actively seeking improvements to test methods and the development and amendment of current procedures.

Walsall, United Kingdom

• The role involved routine maintenance, troubleshooting and emergency repair duties across various types of production machinery.
• Duties would involve a wide range of tasks such as the replacement and repair of hydraulic and pneumatic devices, motor replacements, gearbox and drive rebuilds, bearing removal and installation, bench fitting, welding.
• Responsible for continuous improvement of equipment, efficiency improvement and minimization of downtime
• Record keeping of third-party PPM logs as well as creation and implementation of service schedules
• Interpretation of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic drawings, including mechanical drawing CAD creation
• I personally implemented 5S organization to the workshop improving efficiency and accuracy

Foundation Degree, Manufacturing Engineering

Postgraduate Certificate, Oncology

Bachelor’S Degree, Biomedical Science