Derek Rae Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Gb

Waukesha, Wisconsin, Us

Reporting directly to the Managing Director (Owner) of the business, employed in a senior management role with management for circa 50 personnel, including responsibility for Customer Services & Delivery Performance, Procurement, Planning, Quality, Technical, HSE, and Human Resources with full P&L responsibility on a COMAH regulated site.Additional responsibilities for a satellite site based in Northern Ireland.Achievements include 27% reduction in FTE numbers, increase in On time in full (OTIF) to above 99% and subsequent transport reduction costs. I have also successfully led the site to full ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification. Lead monthly management meetings and implemented shopfloor cost capture and control

Manufacturing Manager Wyman Gordon Ltd • Management responsibility for c. 120 personnel, including maintenance, engineering, Health & Safety and operational, within a unionised environment. • Delivered structural and cultural change within the organisation in a business with turnover of $170M per annum.• Full P&L responsibility for shopfloor operations.• Standardising reporting and management processes across production.• Budgetary control of c. $ 10M p.a. variable spend and c. $1.2M fixed spend.• Key achievements included 8% reduction in annual costs. Operations Manager SPS Technologies Ltd• Transferred from Caledonian Alloys to a business to lead a 200 strong unionised team in the implementation of lean manufacturing and clear a large sales order backlog. Circa 1500 product specifications all manufactured on order receipt.• Successfully formulated and implemented a strategy to create a pro-active, efficient and disciplined workforce involving absence reduction from 5% to 0.5%, replacement and training of supervision, defining and communicating clearly all Key Performance Indicators (including publication of daily targets) and establishing robust measurement / control systems to closely monitor performance. Successfully increased OTD from 55% to 80% within a 6-month time period.European Operations Manager Caledonian Alloys Ltd • Operational, Health and Safety and engineering responsibility for four European Manufacturing operations within Caledonian Alloys, along with a further three satellite sites.• Responsibility for 160 personnel covering 7 operations • Implementation of daily variable cost and earned standard hour measurement to allow accurate performance baseline to be established. • Achieved 2% productivity improvement and subsequent 2% variable cost reduction across European Operations quarter over quarter.• Implemented a manufacturing operation based in the USA into the Caledonian business

2:1 Honours Degree, Manufacturing Engineering & Management

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