Gary Knight Email & Phone Number

Hartlepool, Gb

Hartlepool, England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Seal Sands

Overall responsibility for all in house and contracted in maintenance activities on this specialities chemical manufacturing site. Managing the reliability engineering function to develop best practices across all my own, and other functions to deliver organisational performance. Member of the site leadership team, contributing to the organisation at site level and providing feedback to corporate on local performance. I also act as chief liaison with regulatory bodies on maintenance and mechanical engineering aspects.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Providing practical, client focused reliability engineering solutions for all stages of the plant and equipment lifecycle. Rosen are now offering reliability engineering services as part of their broad and well established integrity management consultancy capabilities.

Teesside

Managing the overall reliability strategy for all of the SABIC Petrochemicals UK's organisation and assets. Functional leadership of all reliability related activites, and ensuring the organisation has the required skills and direction to achieve excellence in manufacturing.Key responsibilities and achievements:• Developed and implemented a cross-functional reliability improvement framework, aligning all departments to key performance improvement activities• Contributed to numerous high-impact projects by managing reliability demonstration during FEED using RAM modeling techniques. Delivering reliability and integrity plans to safeguard safety and performance using RCM• Led site level improvement projects for targeted “performance killers” such as quality of maintenance work and bolted joint integrity• Created competency framework for RCA, delivering training and developing a network of skilled RCA practitioners working on diverse problems• During tenure, site production output demonstrably increased through the reduction of downtime and optimization of maintenance by 10%

Delivering reliability engineering projects for the SABIC Petrochemicals UK business, first on an ethylene liquefaction unit then supporting a new low-density polyethylene manufacturing plant.Key responsibilities and achievements:• Ran three successful TPM projects• Implemented a failure reporting and corrective action system structure, integrating into normal site operating practice• Conducted RCA’s on numerous complicated technical failures on a problematic polyethylene plant, with around £10M in total losses mitigated• Completed four RCM studies, mitigating over £8M in business risk• Conducted Weibull studies, MTBF/MTTR analysis and basic Monte Carlo simulations to support project decision making process• Contributed to 2014 major turnaround as mechanical technical authority and engineering modification controller

Teesside

Mechanical engineer supporting all aspects of a logistics operation within the SABIC Petrochemicals UK site. Technical support covering a wide array of static and rotating equipment, and all reliability and integrity activities.Key responsibilities and achievements:• Mechanical authority for the overhaul of five large floating roof storage tanks with a spend of over £1M each, with RGP improvements identified and specified• Mechanical authority for pipework remediation program, with over five kilometers of pipework attended• Introduced reliability engagement sessions with operating teams, utilizing RCA to deliver “bottom-up” improvements• Carried out an RCM study on one of the liquefaction plants

Provide day-to-day management and technical leadership to a team of mechanical craftsmen, executing maintenance on the gas scrubbing section of the coke making plant and materials handling section. Over thirty reports encompassing work delivery, planning, scheduling and support functions.Key responsibilities and achievements:• Ensure adherence to all legislation, including Health and Safety at Work Act, COMAH, PSSR’s/PED, Working at Height regs, Confined Space regs, LOLER (mobile crane operations appointed person), ATEX, COSHH and PUWER• Ensure that all statutory and best practice inspection and preventative maintenance carried out to ensure compliance with appropriate regulations and plant availability requirements• Compile risk assessments, safe working procedures, preventative maintenance schedules and major overhaul plans• Provide support to capital projects with expertise and labor, helping ensure projects completed on plan and to budget• Select and control contractors and vendors for specialist tasks• Developed and utilised KPI’s to identify critical plant and drive up availability to over 90%• Initiated Continuous Improvement activities within the department including 5S, Permit to Work Improvements and Maintenance Workflow Improvements• Implemented and managed a full Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) review of all plant and pipework

Working within the Speciality Teas production department, provide technical support and improvement activities for a wide range of FMCG and packaging equipmentKey responsibilities and achievements:• Front line fault finding and problem solving for all equipment• Develop and maintain asset care plans through TPM techniques• Support and lead continuous improvement activities - large focus on Single Minute Exchange of Die (five projects delivered including post-delivery control)• Mentor and develop a team of nine engineering craftsmen across three different shifts• Investigate, asses, propose and manage introduction of new techniques and equipment

Procurement of fabrications, non-metallic components, hydraulics and other subsidiary parts and services used in the manufacturing of articulated dump trucksKey responsibilities and achievements:• Developing, implementing and maintaining strategic sourcing plans• Negotiating contracts and supplier agreements• Risk management and mitigation (financial and non-financial)• Identified two high value suppliers, and lead six-sigma projects to remove waste from the value stream to realize a cost saving• Outsourced fabricated components, due to equipment obsolescence, realizing a cost saving and a quality improvement

Quality assurance and improvement activities relating to manufactured, and latterly purchased, parts and processes.Key responsibilities and achievements:• Utilizing Advanced Product Quality Planning and Production Part Approval Process to ensure supply of quality components• Resolving problems through use of 8D methodology• Managing quality systems for individual production cells• Problem resolution and quality planning• Deployment of quality tools such as FMECA, Kaizen, Cause-and-effect, Process Flow Analysis and Pareto• Collection, management and interrogation of data from various sources

Key responsibilities and achievements:• Completion of apprenticeship in Assembly Engineering• Production of assemblies to documented standards• Fault finding and rectification of parts and systems• Test and inspection of completed product

Level 4 Data Analytics Apprenticeship, Data Science, Distinction

Msc, Maintenance Engineering And Asset Management, Distinction

Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering, First