Gareth Reece Email & Phone Number

Milnthorpe, England, United Kingdom

South Africa

Kendal, England, United Kingdom

• Successful line management of 32 staff to deliver training to 800 students and apprentices in four departments to attain qualifications and develop careers• Complex role requiring quick thinking, attention to detail, sensitivity, excellent communication skills, and strong commitment ensuring all students able to achieve their full potential• Responsibility for training and induction of new staff, ensuring that timetabling makes the best use of their expertise• Upheld the highest standards of teaching and delivery in four departments that expanded provision and increased department applications, resulting in increased staff recruitment• Partnership working with assisted learning services to ensure student needs were fully met and the curriculum was accessible• Promoted sharing of best practices and identified effective strategies for curriculum delivery through attention to student feedback, lesson observations, and learning walks• Acknowledged that positive student engagement and experience are underpinned by staff who feel valued, supported, and motivated• Strong ability to build excellent working relationships with staff by setting meaningful targets and undertaking regular appraisals• Responsibility to performance manage staff for complex and varied reasons, ensuring the process is clear and targets achievable• Successfully improved attainment rate in Engineering to 100%, including during the Covid period• Successfully developed and project-managed a new motor vehicle workshop that includes electric and hybrid technology• Management and coordination of the construction of the new T-Level Engineering building• Achieved a 4.3% increase in attendance in Computing• Embedded Core Maths qualifications into the Computing and Engineering department to improve UCAS points and student progression, resulting in £90k funding• Tenure at college when college one ranked in the UK

• Successful apprenticeship provision of 70 Engineering students ensuring prepared and progressing on relevant standards & qualifications• Co-ordinated staff and facilitators to deliver curriculum and supported with content reviews to facilitate success on the apprentice journey• Assessed new applicants and networked with external employers to gather evidence and align targets• Advised students on appropriate steps to support future ambitions and liaise with various departments as support• Instrumental in streamlining processes to increase transparency and user-friendliness for staff to ensure that students are reaching completion on deadlines, reducing workload, drop-outs, and excess costs• Increased apprentices by 25% resulting in £500k funding over three years• Taught project and engineering design lecturers in the delivery of L4 HNC programmes, offering technical advice to mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing students resulting in most students achieving distinction

Kendal, England, United Kingdom

Windermere, England, United Kingdom

• Successful delivery of high-quality Maths lessons and supporting students to succeed with GCSEs and A-Levels• Increased student grades by 3% per cent each year demonstrating student progression• Responsible for the well-being and progress of one tutor group

Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

• Completed teacher training in Mathematics at Cumbria University, including successful external placements at Kirby Kendal and Lancaster Royal Grammar School

Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

• Successfully worked with the BBC and Lancaster University on transmedia, second screen, and sustainability initiatives• Responsibilities included part-time lecturing, and writing academic papers which assisted completion of MRes• Research and delivery at management school here in innovation, sustainability, project management, and 3D prototyping• Ad hoc teaching assistant roles supporting engineering and computing workshops

Derby, England, United Kingdom

• Successfully led a team of engineers & operators to implement a new advanced manufacturing process by applying rapid prototyping technology• Successful creation of ceramic shell to cast new concept turbine blades resulting in improved design, and considerable production cost reduction, a key competitive advantage• Responsibilities included managing staff, suppliers, & designers; managing resources, designing and implementing processes, adhering to health and safety, and establishing rigorous quality control procedures• Enhanced knowledge of Lean 6σ, OEE, PFMEA, APQP, and Design of Experiments• Wrote CMM programs, created extensive control charts, used AutoCAD software, and designed and commissioned new equipment for process establishment• Led through the Manufacturing Capability Readiness Level (MCRL) process and spent several months with Skyplus, a research agency based in California to develop and acquire a ceramic 3D printing process and installation and application back in the UK• VPC project facilitated the design of new turbine blades saving 5% in fuel and enabling faster flight speed• Streamlined the process with the expected saving of millions of pounds on former turbine blade manufacturing

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Four six-month placements1. Strategic Research Centre, Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) ProjectResearched a nickel-titanium material SMA to understand the suitability of a new actuator concept for serrated nozzles on the engine casing. Included 3D design and performing FEA and stress analysis on the new SMA actuator in CADDS, Pro/Engineer & Pro/Mechanica. Once researched, I created a small prototype to show the concept in action that worked as simulated. This new concept could save weight and efficiency in futuristic aeroplanes.2. Material Test Facility, Redesign High Cycle Fatigue (HCF) Test RigProject managed a team of graduate engineers to develop a new connection device for compressor test pieces on the HCF test rig. Required to manage people, resources, finance, suppliers, and customers. The project was completed within the time frame established. The new test pieces cost approx. £50, 10 times less than the previous test pieces resulting in savings of over £100,000 / year.3. Industrial Power Units, Facility Layout / Workflow.Assisted in the implementation of the load-balancing cell. Analysed material flow and factory layout at the Liverpool industrial generator facility. Proposed new system and layout incorporated into a value stream map, with potential benefits and cost reduction of approximately £2.6M per year. Recommended implementation methods and future improvements. Further conversations with groups stated that they had implemented some of the suggestions.4. Turbine Surface Technologies Ltd. Quality Improvement.Designed a procedure for work acceptance. Optimised the aluminising process by analysing the stop-off material composition using the statistical Design of Experiments methodology. This reduced the amount of depletion caused by stop-off material in aluminising, therefore reducing the amount of scrap by 30%. With each turbine blade costing between £2-3k, this resulted in a cost reduction of approximately £100-150k per year.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

• Manufacturing Engineer - Turbine Blades Facility, Rolls-Royce PLC• Optimised the De-ionised Water - Electro Discharge Machine (DW-EDM) that produces cooling holes in turbine blades• Employed a design of experiment methodology - electrode tool wear in the DW-EDM was reduced saving approx. £62,000 / year in electrode costs• Reduced the machine's programs downtime - blade throughput increased from a max of 3.5 to 4.8 blades/hour

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Manufacturing Engineering & Management, 1St Class

Python Programming - Bootcamp, Computer Software Engineering, 100% Average (So Far)

Pgce, Mathematics, Distinction

Mres, Digital Innovation, 1St Class Distinction