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Portsmouth, GB

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

• Operations Manager is responsible for leading, managing, developing, and growing an initially small manufacturing team in the assembly and test of Hi-Rel electronic components and related products. With ocus on the.
• Planning, prioritising, tracking, and driving production schedules to achieve required levels of manufacturing performance.
• Driving and implementing lean manufacturing and best practice at all levels, with an emphasis on visual management methods.
• Integration of two sites into a single manufacturing facility while maintaining customer delivery targets.
• Delivery of products on time, at right quality, and right cost achieving a budget of 1.1M per month

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the implementation of manufacturing processes and systems into global production processes.
• Integration of Manufacturing systems with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Quality Management Systems (QMS), and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
• Responsible for the deployment roadmap working with all stakeholders to achieve a clear understanding of needs, to guide to optimum solution.
• Management and Leadership of project activities with external and internal stakeholders, suppliers, and customers across multiple countries

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Lead and manage all operational manufacturing activities maintaining adherence to manufacturing plan and key performance indicators.
• Manufacturing improvement activities resulting in 30% increased production output.
• Influence cross-functional teams ensuring customer requirements are met above and beyond target utilising visual management and task Kanban tools.
• Responsibility for workplace behaviours with successful implementation of lean methodologies and project management.

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Working as a key member of R&D in supporting both R&D and Productionteams, responsible for driving Continuous Improvement, developing and refining existing processes and the introduction of new technology aimed at.
• Improving the reliability and control on all our optical fibre manufacturing processes from beginning to end, including measurements.
• Identifying yield and efficiency improvements by reducing costs and minimising bottlenecks; including maximising the use of automation and digitisation and analysing of process parameters.
• Advising on equipment modification to enable process changes and improvement for both existing, and new, products; including software and hardware equipment engineering.
• Identifying possible changes or improvements to raw materials, components and / or process parameters to ensure quality is continuously improved and disruption to production kept to a minimum.
• Initiating, designing and implementing new ideas in collaboration with both the R&D and Production teams.

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Team leader for a small group of engineers and technicians responsible for developing process improvements and providing engineering support for production and maintenance activities to ensure maximum production.
• Develop and implement Engineering team based improvement projects.
• Manufacturing project lead for the implementation of lean improvement programs.
• Evaluated individual work performance and advised on career development
• Establish and implement departmental goals, objectives, and procedures.
• Encouraging, identifying and developing best practice strategy

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Working in a team environment to develop and maintain fibre optic lasers, in addition to improving current methods for manufacture. Responsible for maintaining a consistent product build for current and new product.
• Implementation and maintenance of Statistical Process Control
• Development of software based process enhancements
• Analysis of customer returned product for potential improvement
• Manage and maintain products throughout key stages of the product lifecycle
• Establish / Manage telemetry data for company wide supervisory systems.

Havant, Hampshire

• Working for a leading global provider of After Sales Services to the IT and Telecommunications industry, experienced in identifying and implementing repair services, product changes and improvements for IBM products.
• Minimise downtime of test equipment due to improved Monthly Planned Maintenance programs
• Managed the implementation of new processes to support a rapid growth solution to meet customer demands within an aggressive schedule. Included establishing hardware interfaces for a multilingual temporary work force.
• Received customer requests to scope and implement changes.
• Designed and built temporary and permanent fixtures for different product variants.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 2:1

Hnd, Electrical And Electronics Engineering