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Rugby, Gb

Gaydon, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for:• Developing and implementing the JLR Global Safety Management System, ensuring it complies with internal standards and external requirements• Ensuring compliance with the H&S regulatory framework and developing and executing the Zero Harm Strategy.• Leading and developing systems & processes for measuring and monitoring safety metrics through effective capture & visualisations which drive meaningful actions. • Providing all sites with guidance on targets for safety metrics and providing support and coaching to functional teams to ensure compliance with JLR requirements.• Liaising with the Learning Academy to ensure effective safety training provision and developing effective training packages across different formats.• Policy and procedure drafting and deployment to ensure effective mitigation of safety risks on a global level.• Leading and developing the safety risk management and risk profiling strategies.• Driving safety culture through continuous improvement, and leadership of safety communication processes with internal stakeholders.• Leading the internal and external (ISO 45001) audit schedules, developing effective internal audit systems to ensure legislative and procedural compliance.• Business Excellence Practitioner, ensuring safety processes are world class.GDPR data champion, ensuring regulatory compliance.• Insurance & claims liaison, understanding trends, analysing data, provide insights.• Liaising with HSE as required, communicating HSE visits effectively across the function.• Managing a small team to deliver the team objectives.

Castle Bromwich, England, United Kingdom

Part of the Occupational Health and Safety team, developing and delivering the Zero Harm ambition through deployed policies and processes. Identify best practices and initiatives and develop the to Jaguar Land Rover processes.Develop localised Zero Harm Plans, based on locations risk profile and performance to drive the Zero Harm ambition Launch initiatives by utilising project management techniques to ensure the achievement of planned outcomes. Work collaboratively with other location teams and Centres of Expertise. Negotiate and influence senior management and other stakeholders where appropriate. Apply working knowledge of key H&S practices, best practices and industry knowledge when advising and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders and customers.

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

Providing complete Health and Safety solutions to SME'sHead of Health & Safety at bio-bean Ltd.Responsible for leading and managing all aspects of health and safety for the entire business, including:• Continually evolving the H&S management system to induce compliance and continual improvement.• Crafting a positive safety culture by driving organisational and behavioural change and championing H&S across the business.• Proactive influencing of senior management to provide time and resource for H&S improvement projects through pragmatic risk-based analysis.• Writing, implementing, maintaining, reviewing and effectively communicating all H&S policies and procedures.• Monitoring compliance with all relevant H&S legislation, identifying gaps and determining actions required through comprehensive knowledge of UK H&S law.• Developing safe systems of work and best working practices across the business• Risk assessing, and defining and implementing appropriate control measures for key workplace hazards• Ensuring effective reporting procedures for accident, incidents and safety concerns, leading incident investigations, and determining root causes and appropriate mitigating actions.• Defining, measuring and monitoring Key Performance Indicators for H&S, and effectively reporting• Managing the occupational health provision, including health surveillance and fitness to work assessments for all staff• Ensuring statutory inspections for plant, equipment and vehicles are undertaken as required by competent person, and checks are recorded and followed up.• Writing and maintaining emergency preparedness plans, and ensuring suitable provision of competent people across the business for the purposes of emergency response.• Review and audit of the H&S Management system.• Established a H&S Management Committee to provide guidance and gain Board level input on H&S matters, and chair the quarterly meeting.

Alconbury, Uk

Key management (Executive Committee) role leading the solid biofuels business. Key responsibilities include:• Developing and implementing strategy to achieve profitability of the solid fuels business.• Leading and managing the central engineering function.• Leading and managing the manufacturing and maintenance departments.• Site lead for the biofuels production factory and office facility.• Leading and managing Health and Safety, and Environment and Quality functions.• Managing 4 direct reports.Key achievements include:• Designed and implemented a solid fuels factory upgrade taking the process from a loss-making business to generating gross profit.• Obtained planning permission and a bespoke Environmental Permit for the upgraded factory.• Developed and implemented engineering standards and engineering best practice for bio-bean, bringing in new company policy and procedures for the engineering design process. • Created and embedded a health and safety management system at bio-bean, including developing health and safety policies and procedures and providing training throughout the company. • Achieved ISO 14001 accreditation.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Leadership Team role leading and managing the multidisciplinary central engineering function of 4 process, mechanical and construction engineers.Key achievements:• Completion of a feasbility study for a bio-bean factory to be co-located with an instant coffee manufacturer in Northern Europe for the recycling of instant coffee waste in to process steam and coffee oil.• Successfully obtained a grant from Innovate UK to fund the feasibility study.• Demonstrated the ability to extract coffee oil from spent coffee grounds at an industrial scale.• Identified suitable drying technology for spent coffee grounds.

Responsible for managing the Pilot Plant team (10 direct & indirect reports) to ensure that Banbury has a world class pilot plant which meets the current and future needs of the Coffee R&D function. Lead and manage talent within the immediate team.Manage all aspects of Health, Safety & Environment including ensuring compliance to relevant legislation, R&D Health & Safety Policy, safe systems of work, best engineering practice, and good manufacturing practice.Responsible for regular monitoring of all R&D operations to ensure compliance to quality and safety standards.Responsible for investigating all accidents & incidents in the pilot plant and ensuring actions are completed in a timely manner. Monitor & report statistics to Senior Management.Responsible for induction and supervision of all employees, contractors and visitors to R&D Pilot Plant, to ensure compliance to health & safety standardsAdvise, coach and guide department on health and safety procedures including risk assessment and associated legal obligations.Responsible for developing and implementing a Planned Preventative Maintenance schedule for all pilot plant equipment, and well as responsibility for all reactive maintenance. Manage €3MM R&D CAPEX budget for 2016 across all R&D sites, prioritising spend appropriately and allocating capital budget throughout the year.Responsible for the delivery of all engineering projects from design through to commissioning, qualification and start-up.Responsible for ensuring safe design of all engineering processes and equipment installations including leading HAZOP studies.Responsible for ensuring that trained / skilled resources are available to meet the business needs, skills gaps are identified and plans put in place for operator training.

Banbury

Managed and delivered all engineering projects across the pilot plant. Responsible for process design and detailed engineering of new pilot plant equipment, including compliance with all applicable legislation and best engineering practice.Manage the engineering team: 1 graduate engineer and 1 student intern engineer. Responsible for coaching, and personal and technical development, providing in-the-moment feedback as well as regular project and personal development reviews. Ensure projects are allocated appropriately amongst the engineering team and timelines and project goals are being adhered to.Responsible for the soluble coffee CapEx budget (~£500k/yr) working with project teams and management to assign project priorities. Write Capital Appropriation Requests for soluble coffee projects and work with finance department to secure funding for work programs.Revised risk assessment procedures across the department, influenced senior management and Health & Safety Manager to adopt new system, communicated changes and trained department in new procedure.Built and maintained strong relationships with internal and external partners including global engineering function, external contractors, suppliers and research partners. Responsible for Site Acceptance Testing, training and final documentation for new equipment.

Banbury, Uk

Engineer working within the Pilot Plant and Facilities Development team.Designed, supervised the installation, and commissioned a simplification and increased automation program for the Soluble Coffee Pilot Plant. Defined the work programme, resource and technical progression of the project.Leveraged a new piece of technology to design a new process for the production of soluble coffee with superior product characteristics and environmental credentials. Worked closely with R&D partners and stakeholders to deliver a pilot production plant scaled up from bench top. Worked with multi-disciplinary team, including equipment vendors, central engineering, and the commercial team on equipment and process design and specification for the full commercial process.Responsible for temporary installation of hired equipment for exploration of new processes in the pilot plant. Managed health and safety aspects of all projects, including leading HAZOP studies. Designed and implemented a procedure for the systematic review of pressure systems and determination of pressure relief requirements and understanding PED compliance.Defined and lead a sustainability project to look at environmental aspects of the pilot plant and outlined a comprehensive plan to reduce wastage of compressed air, steam, and water. Manage contractors on a day-to-day basis and carry out health and safety inductions.

Banbury, Uk

Engineer working within the Technology Development team. Lead a technically challenging project for the development of a novel process for producing soluble coffee with additional functional benefits using extrusion technology. Developed and executed experimental plans with due technical rigour, interpreted complex data and made recommendations based on data analysis.Worked with Consumer Insights team to understand current and predicted trends in soluble coffee consumption.Worked closely with sensory and analytical chemistry teams to understand the product and optimise process design.Demonstrated strong project management skills, updated stakeholders on project progress and flagged derailers in a timely manner whilst ensuring costs were controlled.Influenced senior management to approve funding for the project.Ensured new company knowledge was documented through issuing Research Reports as project milestones were achieved.Used cross-functional network and equipment suppliers to seek new ideas and attain feedback on project direction to improve project probability of success.Initiated a Freedom to Operate Study on the process, involving searching the patent landscape to understand current IP, presenting to lawyers, and providing a technical opinion on the patents of interest found.

Banbury, Uk

Engineer working within the Network Support team in the Research and Development facility for soluble coffee production.Shift team member for the start-up of a new soluble coffee manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg, Russia. Responsible for ensuring plant adherence to commissioning standards and best practice sharing between R&D, QA, Central Engineering and production operators. Developed a detailed understanding of process and product, carried our root cause analysis and troubleshooting to allow plant to meet target process, product and capacity specifications.Shift leader for commissioning of soluble coffee manufacturing plants following plant capacity increase. Responsible for leading a team of 3, ensuring process safety compliance, worked independently to solve processing issues whilst supervising and coaching team members. Working with cross-functional/international partners requiring flexible working styles to achieve success.

Meng Biochemical Engineering With French, Maths, Physics, French

Activities and Societies: Chemical Engineering Students Association

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