Daniel Astbury Email & Phone Number

Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Owner / Director at DJA Lean Consulting Ltd

United Kingdom

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Oxford, United Kingdom

Uk Based

Responsible for managing team activity to grow internal contribution and to deliver quality services to the client. Lead and develop the consultancy team, contribute to sales strategy and growth, provide direction for commercial decision making and business development activity for consultants. Lead business development meetings and proposal writing. Manage key projects and constantly deliver high quality standard of work.• Responsibility for the targeted budget set and manages the budget to ensure that regular revenue and cost forecasts are generated• Ensure sound decisions are made in the business; ensure client projects achieve target margins, whilst meeting customer needs and maintaining relationships• Manage resources to generate targeted profit contribution. Actively manage utilisation and associate spend• Lead and manage the team effectively, recognise development, motivate and engage individuals and the team• Conduct regular one to one’s, run target and objective and personal development reviews; set challenging and achievable KPI’s• Encourage employees to take responsibility for making their agreed PDP activities happen and provide the support, facilitation and planning to ensure this is possible. Be resourceful in seeking out development opportunities at no/low cost and through use of personal budgets• Actively contribute to management of associate’s pool in line with the business needs and longer term strategy• Maintain and develop links between sectors and overseas parts of the business• Manage client project teams to ensure that deliverables of what is stated within the proposals are met• Benchmark daily consultant rates and ensure profit margins are adhered to• Achieve utilisation targets for team and projects• Promote “Organic Growth” within all clients. Ensure KPI’s are in place to show “Return On Investment”

Midlands

• Implemented Quality systems in industrial organisations.• Leading a team to deliver New Product Introduction standards.• Creation of master schedules and the ability to assign resource to a project• Reduction in build hours through line balance giving direct improvements to the bottom line and increased productivity to the customer.• Staff training and guidance into achieving goals and targets.• Introduction of Standard work package incorporating detailed inspection and machine processes giving the customer Right First Time manufacturing operations.• Methodical manufacturing process improvements.Experience covers a range of manufacturing and office clients and environments including high and low volume,• Professional trainer and mentor centred on people, process and culture (fundamental skills etc).• Delivery and development of Lean programs to Aerospace, MRO, Automotive, and Manufacturing.• Experienced in the creation of standardised work documentation including set up, design facilitation and has a proven track record of implementation of these items.• Experienced in the delivery of practical problem solving and countermeasure ideas and implementation.• Excellent knowledge of Lean manufacturing tools and techniques• Experience in the introduction of business KPI improvements (safety, quality, delivery, cost, people)• Excellent project management/ communication skills with adaptability to work from top level management to operations level.• Operational Lean consulting experience

Barton Under Needwood

In my role I am responsible for all aspects of training,examples are :-~Fundamental Skills for Team Members & Cell Leaders.~Standardised Work training for Cell Leaders.~Job Element Sheet documentation training.~KPI training.~Cell management and communication training.I also work on Continuous Improvment throughout all areas of the business, Examples are as followed :-~5s~Process Layout~Kaizen implementation~Practical Problem Solving and follow up~KPI implementation~Visual Aids

Derby, United Kingdom

Burnaston, Derby