David Blake Email & Phone Number

Kingston Upon Hull, England Metropolitan Area

Scunthorpe, England, United Kingdom

Scunthorpe, England, United Kingdom

• Manager for the development and implementation of critical business wide Health and Safety initiatives:
• Overhead cranes maintenance system – following a fatality in the business in 2010 I lead the project for implementation of a new system for controlling overhead crane maintenance. Delivered a £1.4m Capex budget project.
• Work at Height – lead team who developed new WAH Risk Assessment system, and core training. Implemented across the business involving 3000 people trained.
• Permit to Work – led the successful development and implementation of a new Management of Work system. Initially piloted, then implemented across all areas of the business and involved over 4000 people. This system won.
• Risk Assessment system – led the team developing a new Risk Assessment system, implementation effected over 3000 people and led to the creation of 6000 new risk assessments.
• Management of Change – management of the team developing a replacement MoC system. Developed tools and training packages to facilitate piloting and deployment across the business, implementation starting in 2019.

Scunthorpe

Management of the Process Safety/COMAH responsibilities for the all of the mills in the Long Products Hub.Produced the Process Safety Cockpit, highlighting the KPIs required by Plant Management to control their process safety work.Co-ordinated the update of the COMAH reports for a number of plants on the Scunthorpe Establishment (SPM, MSM and SRM).Member.

Ownership of the Slab, Reheaters and Normaliser areas of the SPM. The role also had the ownership of COMAH and Environmental for the SPM.Day-to-day responsibility for the slab preparation area, with a team of 50 people on shifts. Managing the process to achieve slab precision, reheating the steel at the cheapest Gj/T, and also the normalising of the.

Heavy Section Mill - Shift ManagerISO 14001 - Environmental champion

Heavy section mill - Finishing End mechanical maintenance engineer

Scunthorpe, England, United Kingdom

Various graduate engineering placements across mills, cokemaking, and secondment to Mobile DRI.