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United Kingdom

Responsibility for engineering activities across the global Thermo Fisher Scientific Chromatography Consumables & Columns business including leadership of engineering projects, new product introduction, supporting operations and leading process improvement activities.

Runcorn, Cheshire, Uk

A manufacturing operation supplying chromatography media (both silica-based and other) to the chromatography consumables business and third parties. The facility serves two businesses with a number of shared services.• Leadership of site operations including development and implementation of operations strategy and site capability improvement.• Responsibility for production activities including planning, product quality, delivery, cost, equipment maintenance and introduction of new products.• Leadership of the site's Practical Process Improvement programme, driving continuous improvement in processes, efficiency and effectiveness.• Responsible for ensuring compliance with company and regulatory requirements, including ISO9001, health, safety & environmental and trade.

Holywell, North Wales

A contract cGMP manufacturing site supplying pharmaceutical and fine chemical products ranging from grammes to tonnes (lab to plant), API & intermediates and across development phase to commercial production with multiple new product introductions each year. • Leadership of all aspects of site operation with responsibility for production, engineering, health, safety, environmental performance, project management, financial performance (P&L responsibility) and human resource management (including employee relations and consultation).• Duty Holder for health, safety and environmental aspects, including controlled substances.• As the senior manager and a company director, leadership of the site management team and responsible for effective communication with other sites, functions and company executives.• Site achieved >30% revenue growth each year for three consecutive years and transitioned from loss to profit through increased plant utilisation, productivity and control of costs.• Development and implementation of manufacturing strategy and general management of the site, including capital investment and organisation design.• Leadership of a project to achieve voluntary EU GMP certification from the MHRA and subsequently multiple regulatory and customer audits.• Planning and communication processes including operations workgroup training days, toolbox talks and daily cross-function ‘stand-up’ coordination meetings.• Leadership of the project management function responsible for new product introductions.

Holywell, North Wales

A privately owned contract manufacturing and development business based at the Holywell site which was acquired by Albany Molecular Research Inc. Approximately 50% of business was derived from new products across lab, pilot and plant scale operations.• Accountable for the manufacturing, engineering and safety, health & environmental functions at the site and a member of the site management team.• Responsible for a site improvement and capital investment programme. • Improvement in on-time, in-full and schedule adherence performance through implementation of effective planning and monitoring processes and associated KPIs.• Debottlenecking and improved reliability through the application of lean thinking tools.

Middlesbrough, Uk

A biocides manufacturing business with multiple locations, including top tier CoMAH, and an integrated manufacturing chain, which transitioned from Avecia to Arch Chemicals ownership in April 2004.• Operations responsibility for several manufacturing sites at different locations, including safety, health & environmental aspects as well as production and engineering.• Management of costs including leadership of a business improvement programme that delivered a >20% reduction to sustain competitiveness.• Development and implementation of a manufacturing strategy.• Responsible for preparation and delivery of annual production and cost budget (fixed and variable).

Middlesbrough, Uk

Grangemouth, Scotland

Joint venture between Avecia and Mitsui Chemicals manufacturing toner resin for printing applications.• Overall responsibility for management of operations at the manufacturing plant.• Completed a manufacturing excellence benchmarking study across three sister plants which resulted in an improvement programme for overall equipment effectiveness and cost efficiency.

Grangemouth, Scotland

A multi-product, top tier CoMAH, fine chemical manufacturing facility including pharmaceutical products.• Preparation and implementation of development strategy; provision of technical support to plants.• Leadership of an in-depth hazard study programme across a wide range of processes.• Management of health & safety aspects including leading a behaviour-based improvement team.

Runcorn, Cheshire

A continuous large-scale, high hazard top tier CoMAH manufacturing facility.• Leadership of a multi-disciplinary technical support team (including a shift-based analytical team).• Delivery of an improvement programme including re-traying a large distillation column, re-design of a storage & loading facility and increasing environmental compliance following regulatory changes.• Front-end design of an effluent treatment plant including effluent stream characterisation.• Provision of technical support and troubleshooting expertise to three production plants.

Northwich, Cheshire

Master Of Science (Msc), Process Business Management, Distinction

Post Experience Certificate, Engineering Business Management

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Chemical Engineering, First Class