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A professional and engaging Operations and Maintenance Manager with over thirty years leadership and technical experience gained from serving, firstly, in the Royal Navy and then in the manufacturing and engineering service sectors.Key Strengths:•Strong leadership skills prioritising Health & Safety, then coaching & developing staff into high performance teams.•Excellent planning & execution skills.•Good at problem solving & decision making.•Develops innovative solutions & has the resilience to see the solution successfully implemented.•Outstanding communicator.•Experienced at coordinating all resources available, including managing budgets.•Continually looks for opportunities to improve efficiency & ways of working.•Possesses good interpersonal & relationship management skills.Achievements:•Restructured an Equipment Maintenance department to ensure greater effectiveness at driving behavioural change – resulted in a 75% reduction of human error incidents causing scrap.•Ensured the site was “manufacturing ready” for a significantly new production line. Product was run the day the line was released and achieved cycle time and quality targets.•Reduced the cost of Quality Tests by 48% over a year, which also gained associated productivity improvements, without impacting quality.•Led the engagement, development and performance improvement of a Shift of 70 staff to jointly improve the Site’s productivity by 33% and propel it to becoming one of the top 10% of semiconductor manufacturing plants in the world (verified by McKinsey Global Institute).•Developed and executed to a comprehensive 1 year training plan to close out over 100 skill gaps in the Equipment Maintenance department. Failure rate reduced by 15% within 4 months.