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Hereford, England, United Kingdom

Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Swindon

Swindon, United Kingdom

The Die and Machinery group are responsible for the import and export of metal shaping Dies, Machinery and spare parts globally to maintain tooling and machinery within the Honda Motor Group and also to non-Honda business partners. Supervising the operation of the Die and Machinery Group, ensuring the achievement of company objectives and developing future strategies whilst managing the team. Responsible for CE Marking imported production machines as well as researching and developing new CE marking marketing opportunities in Japan and Europe. Also liaison between Honda of the UK Manufacturing (HUM), Honda Engineering Japan and Honda Trading Japan

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Global, Based In Uk

Managing the group's relationship on all product and related issues with Visa and Discover/Diners Club International payment networks.Coordinating support and information internally and within the payment schemes to provide the framework for discussion, rule and specification generation and auditing interpretations to allow new or existing products to grow and flourish. Also responsible for gap analysis between products and card issuer requirements and bringing focus on these gaps and encouraging solutions.

International

Managing equipment specification, sourcing, purchasing, installation and troubleshooting for all sites across five continents. Also investigating and providing complete upgrade and repair solutions for process and equipment related issues.Significant projects included the sourcing to commissioning of three complete lines of four machine production lines to embed silicon chips in Brazil.Additional duties included managing the Oberthur Technologies fleet of Hardware Security Modules and general business operation analysis.

International

Responsible for the development and industrialisation of new ID and payment card and SIM card types in a variety of plastics. This included the first commercial polycarbonate card for the company. Managing project teams to implement the new production processes and equipment.

Uk

Responsible for time/motion and waste production studies, reporting on causes of inefficiency, recommending and implementing solutions across all manufacturing departments.

Uk

Managing and training two new staff members on product, systems, processes and account handling while running their accounts.

Uk

Creation of a new department to handle the following...Handling the introduction of all new designs and project co-ordination of new project launches.Responsibility for selecting the best manufacturing method and materials, and providing instructions to the corresponding production departments.Reducing customer returns and wasted production time by analysing process and suggesting improved operational interventions.

Appointed to handle the British Bakeries account covering overall account handling, order generation and management, production scheduling as well as handling sales and distribution queries during their Hovis range rebrand. Managing 258 stock lines through stock out and the replacement lines launching.Raised and processed on the customer’s behalf all production orders and rectified any queries or concerns via telephone, email or face to face. Complete supply chain management of their bag supply.

Uk

Created a new role and planned/scheduled bag conversion department production through a doubling in capacity. Raised On Time In Full metric by over 14% in the first four months.Balanced the needs of customers against conflicting key performance indicators, providing 24/7 scheduling support.

Training staff on ERP system usage. Sandpit testing of system upgrades. Administration of data in the system to ensure data integrity. Liason with corporate IT team. Troubleshooting.

Assisting in the development of the Quantum refrigeration compressor. For more information see http://www.acl-online.com/about_us.htmlMy tasks included designing, building and running test rigs, assembling prototype compressors, analysing test data and fault analysis as well as competitor analysis.

Hiring vehicles and drivers to suit specific large deliveries, negotiating routine courier contracts, crane hire. Production planning decisions and production plan updating. Approximate £1.5m spend per annum.

Bsc, Physics

Activities and Societies: Hillwalking, Sailing, Charity collecting, Music Three year Bachelors degree in Physics. Stage manager.

A Level, Physics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Hereford String Orchestra. Herefordshire Youth Orchestras.

General Certificate Of Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: School Orchestras and consorts. Herefordshire Youth Orchestras. Hockey. School Choir Ten GCSE qualifications.