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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

With over 180 employees in the UK, Promedics are a market leading Orthopaedic manufacturer and supplier into every Hospital in the UK through the NHS, and a key partner to many companies in Europe, USA and other International markets. With one of Europe's largest orthopaedic manufacturing facilities based in the UK, and a 40,000 sq foot warehouse, Promedics commitment to European product design and manufacturing is clear - offering unrivalled quality and service levels to our customers in our home market and abroad.As Interim Warehouse Project Manager, I have joined the team with the remit of overseeing the transition of fulfilment operations from Promedics' current warehouse space, to a new warehouse facility - which will substantially increase operational capacity and will enable and support future growth.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

SMAS (Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service) is focused on developing a culture of business excellence in all manufacturing companies in Scotland. We help businesses become more profitable, competitive and successful by designing and delivering tailored manufacturing improvement support.

Gourock, Scotland

Senior Operations Manager at Amazon's 330k sq.ft. fulfilment centre in Gourock, UK, with responsibility for all aspects of inbound operations. Responsibilities include:Providing overall direction to Fulfilment Centre inbound operations – with accountability for setting and achieving operational goals; coordinating operational execution; and developing operational capability.Driving process improvement utilising Lean/Six Sigma/Kaizen methodologies, fulfilling the role of subject-matter-expert and coach.Managing and developing a team of Operations Managers and Area Managers as direct reports. Generating and leveraging ideas to nurture creative improvement plans for the Fulfilment Centre and leading activity to ensure that best practices are fully adopted and effectively shared. Maintaining health & safety standards; maintaining quality standards. Promoting both a safety culture and a quality culture.

Glasgow

Exova is a global provider of laboratory testing, inspection and certification services. Sectors served include Aerospace, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Food and Fire Safety. Exova ensures that clients' products and services meet requirements for safety, quality and performance through comprehensive testing and advisory servicesRole Responsibilities:Responsible for leading the achievement of annual and strategic business objectives relating to Exova UK Environmental Services. Specific GM ownership for Sales & Profitability, Strategic Growth, Customer Service, Commercial Protection, Working Capital, Health & Safety and Quality Management. In 2012, led the business to organic revenue growth of 20% with EBITDA growth of 35%. Have guided all Exova UK environmental sites to UKAS re-accreditation, enhanced Health & Safety practice, improved working capital and new & extended customer contracts.

Reporting to the Managing Director - Europe, with Business Improvement resposibility for 59 sites (laboratories and consulting offices) in 13 countries within Europe. European sales ~ £110m;1600 staff operating within five industry sector divisions. Key responsibilities relate to the development of an effective structure for the delivery of Operational Excellence within the European operation and thereby the consistent delivery of Customer Value through business process effectiveness and embedded Lean culture.

RR Donnelley is a USA owned global provider of Supply Chain Integrated Solutions specialising in sourcing, kitting, assembly, configuration and fulfilment. The Livingston facility is one of ten sites within the Group, supporting blue chip customers within the Information Technology and Medical Device sectors.My remit - and success - within this role, was to guide the company to: consistent & effective process, embedded Lean practice & culture, full scorecard-based customer satisfaction and increased profitable performance.The site operated to ISO 13485 (Quality Management Systems for Medical Devices), cGMP (Good Manufacturing Practice), ISO9001 and ISO14001.[http://www.rrdsupplychain.com]

Role Summary:To optimise all management and business processes & systems across the UK, Netherlands and Hungary and ensure effective planning and delivery of all strategic improvement projects.[http://www.rrdsupplychain.com]

Role Summary:To develop, coordinate and manage, as an integrated system, the flow of information and materials between user and source, maximising service and minimising cost.To implement, and effectively deploy, ERP & specialist Forecasting, Planning and Operations systems.[http://www.spotlesspunch.co.uk]

Role Summary:To review and re-engineer production & support processes so as to advance current operation and support planned business growth.To source, evaluate, select and implement site-wide ERP system, integrating renewed systems effectively with site operations.

Mba, World Class Manufacturing

Electives in Operations, Marketing & Finance

Bsc., Mathematics