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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Key Responsibilities:
• Lead a team of 10 highly motivated, skilled and experienced Quality Technicians, plus mentoring an IBL student responsible for Kenworth and DAF truck quality issues within the PACCAR manufacturing plan across 2 shifts.
• Liaise between Production and Suppliers to ensure any defects found are investigated, documented, communicated and resolved in a timely manner to ensure handover and delivery targets are meet.
• Ensure the Defective Material Report (DMR) process is followed, defects and responsibilities are correctly assigned and to champion process improvements to reduce the supplier defects.
• Coordinate major reworks, including stop-shipments with Production and Suppliers to ensure swift turnaround times to meet truck delivery targets.
• Actively encourage supplier to investigate issues found at PACCAR and to submit 8-D reports to implement sound corrective actions.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Key Responsibilities:
• Strategy sourcing and negotiation of Long Term Agreements for drive train components such as engines, transmissions, steer and drive axles, drive and steering shafts, suspensions, fifth wheels and other major.
• Manage various local and overseas Fibreglass suppliers, work on risk mitigation and quality improvement strategies and the development of new ISO accredited suppliers.
• Lead Supplier SPM meeting to discuss the supplier’s performance against key metrics such as Engineering support, Quality and Delivery and overall alignment to PACCAR initiatives.
• Create long lasting relationships with key local suppliers to drive more value add, innovation and quality improvement through the Cost Management Partnership (CMP) program.Key Achievements:
• Collaborated with suppliers to create ideas on how to significantly reduce the costs of the Kenworth trucks and create more value for our customers as part of the Cost Management Partnership Program, which resulted in.

Melbourne, Australia

• Key Responsibilities:
• Strategy sourcing of around 12,000 metal components like chassis rails, bull and bumper bars, fuel tanks, castings, base frames, cab components, doors and over 200 vacuum formed or injection molded plastic components.
• Drive quality and delivery improvements with suppliers, negotiate long term and warranty agreements, pricing for JIT, KANBAN, local and overseas components.
• Manage the implementation of new products released via the Product Change Release (PCR) system to ensure the on time delivery of PPAP approved parts to the production line.Key Achievements:
• Negotiated year on year cost savings with key suppliers of over $800k to enable Kenworth to reduce the cost per truck by over $300.
• Managed multiple truck hour reduction projects in co-operation with Supplier Quality and Production. The projects achieved over 2 hours of truck hour reductions by resourcing of manufacturing operations and assembly.

Melbourne, Australia

• Key Responsibilities:
• Report to the Head of the Purchasing Department and assist with the preparation of important contract and commercial negotiations.
• Assist Commodity Managers with procurement and supply chain strategies, detailed cost analysis and price negotiations with current and new suppliers.
• Drive projects to analyze the current supplier base locally and overseas to identify opportunities to improve the total cost and explore new and innovate manufacturing technologies.
• Estimate manufacturing target costs for new and existing truck components via analysis of prototype parts, CAD data or engineering drawings and identify cost reduction opportunities, utilizing procurement and cost.
• Liaise with Design Engineers, the Research & Development team and Tier 1 suppliers to design more cost efficient parts for current and new truck models.Key Achievements:

Melbourne, Australia

• Supplier of small to medium fabricated steel, aluminium and stainless steel components for truck, trailer and mining industry.Key Responsibilities:
• Development and execution of continuous improvement projects relating to existing products, processes, 5S, Visual Management and Total Productive Maintenance.
• Leadership of 12 operators, maintain records of production levels, monitor progress against plans and provide advice concerning materials and labour requirements.
• Build and maintain productive and co-operative relationships with key customers and supply chain management to ensure on time delivery with short lead times.Key Achievements:
• Supervised 30 manufacturing employees during absence of the production manager.
• Gained operational knowledge of laser cutting and brake press operations, developed and implemented training manuals for manufacturing processes.

Melbourne, Australia

• Key Responsibilities:
• Quoting on new products using time and motion studies (MTM).
• Work in cross-divisional teams on the development of new products, supply chain management, process and quality improvements, creation of cost efficient solutions.
• Labour cost calculations, maintain and update production routings in SAP, production hints, process flow charts and control plans.
• Identification of performance deficiencies, process deviations and lean opportunities, implementation of actions to achieve productivity, quality and cost efficiencies.
• Development of manufacturing drawings and production layouts, documentation, planning, coordination and implementation of new equipment and production lines.

Worcester, United Kingdom

• Bosch Thermotechnology Ltd. offers a broad range of products for both domestic and commercial heating and hot water preparation and in the UK includes two well known and reputable brands - Worcester and Buderus.Key.
• Assist the manufacturing manager with the development and implementation of lean manufacturing projects in line with the Bosch Production System.
• Update, create and develop technical drawings, production and quality instructions.
• Manage the implementation of standards in Final Assembly, Copper and Press Shop.Key Achievements:
• Implemented Point CIP (Process based Continuous Improvement) and lean principles.
• Contributed significant to the increase of productivity by 25%.

Reutlingen Area, Germany

Project description:Development and implementation of various logistic and lean manufacturing concepts to increase productivity in the micro mechanics production.Project Results:Increased the productivity by the implementation of a milk run (scheduled point of use material delivery process) and created cost savings of $65,000 per year.

Stuttgart Area, Germany

• Placement experienceKey Responsibilities:
• Assisting the project manager with bid, risk and claims management, contractor management and stakeholder engagement.
• Project planning, managing, monitoring and controlling costs, resource planning, schedule management, project documentation and status reports.Key Achievements:
• Met customer expectations and provided solutions through the delivery of effective communication.
• Successfully managed the accurate and cost efficient realization of the projects Modernization of a soccer stadium on behalf of the FIFA World Championship and Integration of a new telecommunication infrastructure at.

Reutlingen Area, Germany

• Placement experienceKey Responsibilities:
• Project documentation, reporting, project planning, cost control and contractor management of multiple construction and plant facility projects.
• Creation and maintaining of technical drawings, operating and quality instructions.Key Achievements:
• Assisted the department manager with planning and controlling tasks.
• Supported the engineering team to ensure the accurate realization of the projects.

Graduate Diploma (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing.), Engineering & Business Administration (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen), Production Management, Logistics

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Hochschulreife, German, English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, Economics

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