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Haywards Heath

Assisting healthcare providers across all specialities, with unprecedented transparency, dependability and customer service.

Hampshire, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Driving improvements in safety, quality & delivery and cost across our operational processes.

As the P&L Owner for the Parker Kittiwake business unit, spanning 3 UK locations, I was responsible for delivering on the businesses vision, strategy & goals.These goals included delivering double digit profitable growth & ensuring a safe working environment where people could flourish.My role encompassed the management of all functions within the unit.

Kittiwake Group Head Office

The Kittiwake group of companies manufacture instrumentation & sensors used for condition monitoring of lubricants, detection of machinery condition & emissions monitoring. Revenues, approaching £15M per annum, are primarily from product sales but also includes field service/support and customer funded R&D. The global Kittiwake team, including overseas.

Littlehampton, UK

Shareholders formed a Senior Management Team of which I was part. Revenues at now around £6M pa. In addition to previous responsibilities this role change now introduced responsibility for R&D Management, Internal Sales & Order Processing, Quality & Conformance.

Littlehampton, UK

Joined Kittiwake when the company turned around £2.5M per annum and consisted of around 20 people. Opportunity was identified to introduce lean manufacturing methodologies to move the business from "batch" to "flow" & from "build-to-stock" to "build-to-order".Trained & developed the team to run Kanban and implemeted supplier partnering to create a solid.

Originally part of the Eurotherm group, later BTR Siebe/Invensys. Responsible for production on several high volume electronics assembly lines. Mentored other team leaders. Introduced to TPM/TQM, gained Six Sigma greenbelt, ran numerous sucessful blitz Kaizen events.

B.Sc (Hons), Ergonomics

Activities and Societies: Mountain BikingErgonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of.

A Levels, Pure Mathematics With Statistics, Physics, Chemistry

A strong grounding in the base sciences.