David Blake Email & Phone Number

Scunthorpe, Gb

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 with 400 cranes affected and 3000 people trained. System adopted by other steel businesses as best practice.• 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 the CEO safety award in 2015.• 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.• Business Organisation change – developed and owned the process for carrying out major organisation change. Involved the closure of plants and reduction of personnel. Ensuring that key risks and hazards were identified and that adequate controls were in place.• Ownership of the business standards and compliance governance – driving improvements and implementation across the business.

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 of the review team for the DSEAR, SIL assessments for the Scunthorpe Mills. Expert in the Management of Change within the mills area.Co-ordination of Engineering and H&S standards development and implementation across the mills area.Co-ordination of in Capital, Environmental plans for the mills area. Lead the implementation of SAP in the Scunthorpe mills area.Generated the Reorganisation M of C’s process for the 2009 and 2011 Long Products reorganisation.

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 products to the required commercial priorities.

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.