Derek Deegan Email & Phone Number

Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Servicing, maintaining and calibrating weighbridges and various weighing equipment in Ireland

Kilkenny, Ireland

Belview Port, Waterford

• Key involvement in the daily operations of the plant from the start to finish of the process by integrating with different departments with the use of Lean principles and SixSigma tools.
• Involved in the Technical Department but working closely and cross over with the Quality, R&D, Production, Procurement and Maintenance Departments.
• Heavily involved in new projects development from seeking a new idea in R&D research to production scheduling of trials to implementing at a capital level.
• Seeked out continuous improvement projects across the process by researching common faults across the line from data and operator/maintenance experience and implementing solutions.
• Budget Control of new and continuous projects by developing AFE’s – Authorisation of Financial Expenditure, and presenting to key stakeholders for capital investment.
• Daily and weekly meetings with department manager and facility leads to meetings with directors and stakeholders and also dealing with contractors and clients on certain projects.

Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow

• Commissioning, Maintenance and Shutdown of packaging lines. These lines included rinsers, fillers, pasteurisers, driers, labellers and shrinkwrappers whether it is breakdown, periodic or preventative. Working on own or.
• Supervision of packaging teams by looking after and understanding their needs. Also to show leadership with these teams and to train new staff in certain roles as they come. Drafting and implementation of SOP’s in the.
• Daily monitoring of process towards production plans and implementing schedules for production to meet both factory and customer needs. Also, stating KPI’s across the packaging line to ensure quality of product. A.
• Implement lean principles in raw material intake for packaging line. Also
• New projects, Continuous Improvement and HACCP implementation. Ever expanding brewery with new projects always on the go to keep up with future growth.
• Liaising with Quality Manager, the implementation of BRC and ISO standards to the brewery with the introduction of HACCP protocol and monitoring and logging of certain CCP’s of the process to the extreme high.

Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow

• Worked in conjunction with Carlow Brewing while the packaging systems were only in planning stage.
• Looked after the day shift cycle of the distillery operation from start to finish stage of filling oak barrels. Also looking after maintenance and testing of barrels to transport and logistics of barrel movement to.
• Representing Alltech at various trade fairs and marketing events.

County Kilkenny, Ireland

Part time job during college which lead to a full time position after college while I searched for career prospects in manufacturing engineering.

County Kilkenny, Ireland

College Work placement in a water instrumentation supply companyExperience Gained:Technical sales and supportIn house repair and maintenance of products Outcalls for repair, maintenance and calibration Stock inventory control

Bsc Honours In Computer Aided Manufacturing Engineering

Beng Manufacturing Engineering

Higher Certificate In Mechanical Engineering

Leaving Certificate