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Glenrothes, Gb

Glenrothes, Scotland, United Kingdom

Lossiemouth, Scotland, United Kingdom

Lossiemouth, United Kingdom

Supervisory management and welfare of junior staff ensuring all Health and Safety / Quality procedures were understood and strictly adhered to. Employed as the Material Logistics Focal Point on an operational Air force base. Liaising with engineering staff and those from external agencies on daily matters of interest in regards to the requirement of aircraft spares. Identifying the assets required through NATO stock numbers or manufacturers part numbers and sourcing items within acceptable pipeline times, ensuring the pre-emptive orders are placed in relation to planned maintenance schedules. Providing senior engineering staff with both oral and written briefs as per demand solutions and delivery forecasts for components from external sources. Maintaining an accurate and comprehensive account of the squadron’s aircraft and ground equipment inventory's and site stock levels, preparing documentation of items for transportation off unit, including those classified as dangerous for shipment by Air, Land or Sea. A capable Team Leader providing strategic analysis and forecast planning, identifying system breakdowns that may impact operational performance criteria and the daily business output. Utilising bespoke systems such as MJDI and a regular MS Office user to affect a high standard of work. Tirelessly working to mitigate all risks to the business and identify hidden pressure points within stock availability and materials issues while planning corrective action to further reduce exposure to failure and adjust processes as required, with proven accountability of stock values in excess of £700M. Able to systematically decipher engineering terminologies and liaise closely with multi-faceted staff to not only understand empathically their resource requirements but react effectively to arising issues and working collaboratively to ensure compliance, mitigate risk and achieve Key Performance Indicators.

Falkland Islands

Responsible for all receipts from worldwide via the Freight Distribution Service and processing them utilising VITAL and MJDI. Held responsibility to help support the RAF’s global commitments by liaising with military and civilian transport companies and ensuring that packages and kit leaving the island were in compliance with a wide range of laws and regulations for road, sea and air transportation. Ensuring that all serial numbered assets were processed correctly and to a high standard, ensuring that they could be tracked and accounted for worldwide by the military. Dangerous Goods specialist responsible for working to IMDG, IATA and ADR regulations for the dispatch of assets to deployments in various countries. Pivotal member of a team in the Imports and Exports Section, accountable for receiving critical goods from overseas and the return of Dangerous Goods to the UK in compliance with Dangerous Goods shipping regulations. As part of this role, frequently be the focal point of all logistic matters which arose out with normal working hours. Delegating tasks to all staff and monitoring their performance to ensure targets are met using KPI’s.

Leuchars, United Kingdom

Manage Aviation Fuel transactions and movements as well as the control of Aviation Fuel relative to operations conducted on behalf of RAF Leuchars. Operate and Manage Bulk Fuel Installations for Aviation, Ground Fuels, and associated petroleum, oil and lubricant products. Duties can include multi-grade pipeline receipts, tanker receipts, Issues to bulk fuel carrying vehicles (BFCV), tank to tank transfers, quality checks, fuel sampling and testing. Manage a team of 11 personnel. Providing initial competence training to enable operation of installations as lone workers without supervision. Ensuring continuous H&S information, instruction, training and supervision. Maintaining personnel training logs working to current regulations.

Afghanistan

Managing 14 staff in the provision of first line logistics support to the 3 different helicopter platforms. Ensure all orders for spares are prioritised, processed and hastened through to final delivery, in order to maintain operational output. Facilitate asset optimisation through rapid identification and return of all unserviceable equipment through the reverse supply chain. Extraction of all pertinent logistics information data to monitor KPIs and identify improvements to support chain process. Manage all Supply Chain as well as the Statistical Analysis and control of Auditable Documents to ensure a transparent and functional section. Hasten and progress all orders placed including both mission critical and manual orders liaising with Provision Teams and various external agencies. Prioritising the return of repairable assets into the Reverse Supply Chain in order to meet requirement. Collate all data and present visual statistics when required to enable the identification of trends. Ensuring Quality is implemented and actively seeking continuous improvement in all end to end processes. Manage all discrepancies, write-offs and stock in transit. Ensure all Auditable documents are filed in a correct and timely manner. Destruction of all vouchers and records that have exceeded the required retention period. the ability to work under severe pressure in a fast paced environment.

Falkland Islands

Strict management and accounting of small arms ammunition and missiles in excess of £50mil. Liaising through secret computer to demand or exchange all munitions and update excel spreadsheet for higher budget authority. Controlled and recorded customer ammunition allowance to ensure its kept with budget. Daily vetting and placing demands on automated demand system. Ensuring that correct authority for demanding and the use of ammunition is maintained. Utilised various computer systems to account and control all stock, adhering to a strict auditable trail. Subject matter expert to all customers to provide up to date information on current accounting/logistics procedures regarding ammunition and give advice and support to ensure that all items are correctly accounted, stored and delivered in the most economical and cost effective way. Ensuring current air command work procedures are upheld and that the audit trails are to national audit office standards. Prepare all dangerous goods paperwork for class1 for movement by Road\Sea\Air using correct publications. Releasing ammunition for transportation on public roads making sure that hauliers have the correct training and competencies and correct documentation and the vehicle is suitable and has correct safety equipment.

Brize Norton, United Kingdom

An unsupervised position, but with the need to regularly meet deadlines and hit targets, answering directly to the Supply Chain management.Ability to work under pressure making sure aircraft parts are sent by the most direct means to fix aircraft stuck on the ground around the world.Develop and implement spreadsheet based solutions that simplify and streamline the activities in the area e.g. demand consolidation, order book management, performance monitoring, etc. Brief Company executives weekly on all matters regarding mission critical orders.Hasten and progress all orders placed including both mission critical and manual orders liaising with Provision Teams and various external agencies

Aldergrove, United Kingdom

Manage Aviation Fuel transactions and movements as well as the control of Aviation Fuel relative to operations conducted on behalf of RAF Aldergrove. Operate and Manage Bulk Fuel Installations for Aviation, Ground Fuels, and associated petroleum, oil and lubricant products. Duties can include multi-grade pipeline receipts, tanker receipts, Issues to bulk fuel carrying vehicles (BFCV), tank to tank transfers, quality checks, fuel sampling and testing. Manage a team of 9 personnel. Providing initial competence training to enable operation of installations as lone workers without supervision. Ensuring continuous H&S information, instruction, training and supervision. Maintaining personnel training logs working to current regulations.

Lossiemouth, United Kingdom

Manage all Supply Chain as well as the Statistical Analysis and control of Auditable Documents to ensure a transparent and functional section on behalf RAF Lossiemouth. Hasten and progress all orders placed including both mission critical and manual orders liaising with Provision Teams and various external agencies. Prioritising the return of repairable assets into the Reverse Supply Chain in order to meet requirement. Collate all data and present visual statistics when required to enable the identification of trends. Ensuring Quality is implemented and actively seeking continuous improvement in all end to end processes. Manage all discrepancies, write-offs and stock in transit. Ensure all Auditable documents are filed in a correct and timely manner. Destruction of all vouchers and records that have exceeded the required retention period.

Stafford, United Kingdom

Operate and Manage Bulk Fuel Installations for Aviation, Ground Fuels, and associated petroleum, oil and lubricant products. Duties can include multi-grade pipeline receipts, tanker receipts, Issues to bulk fuel carrying vehicles (BFCV), tank to tank transfers, quality checks, fuel sampling and testing. Providing initial competence training to enable operation of installations as lone workers without supervision. Ensuring continuous H&S information, instruction, training and supervision. Maintaining personnel training logs working to current regulations.

Leuchars, United Kingdom

Worked in a busy operational section as part of a small team, supporting all logistics matters on the Repairable Management Section including demanding, ordering, spares accounting and the processing of high priority demands which were required to repair major assets to keep aircraft serviceable for any task / mission of busy front line RAF Squadron, which included maintaining the UK Northern Quick Reaction Alert response aircraft. Adherence to Quality Assurance, Health & Safety and Environmental issues. Issue and control of all PPE. Attend daily meetings to discuss priority of assets going through repair scheme. Check Dangerous goods consignments to ensure compliance with CAA regulations Loading & unloading of equipment using MHE. Administer housekeeping routines within stock holding areas. Managing the reverse supply chain and expedient turnaround of unserviceable assets is prioritised to enable the future availability of critical Aircraft components.

Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Responsibility to maintain and manage all material stores, Inventory and Warehouse related tasks and issues, providing accurate daily communication to Warehouse Manager. I often took lead of a team of 3 personnel to preform stock reconciliation to reduce the number of redundant assets to provide additional storage space. Conducted stock checks, investigation and accounting to reduce stock error rate to below 1%. Regular briefs to senior management regarding any issues and delivery forecast of assets the production line.

Level 3 Certificate In First Line Management, Management, Passed

Activities and Societies: Management activitiesCourse and work based management course

Level 2 Diploma In Team Leading, Leadership, Level 2 Diploma

Activities and Societies: Team development team communication team performanceHelping to work better as a team

Environmental Protection: Land And Water, Environmental Protection, Passed

Nvq Level 2, Distribution And Warehousing Opertations, Passed

General Certificate

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