Jacob Higley Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Advancing the Nuclear sector through NextGen Digital

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivering NextGen Digital within Services, Utilities, Resources and Energy (S.U.R.E)

Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Co-founded the start-up and scale-up of MP’s Human Centred Transformation service line, Lean Innovation. Consistently generated >£2m revenue annually and won new and enhanced existing work in Energy, Manufacturing, Aerospace, MOD and Digital. My role as the leader was to convert my vision into action and I did this successfully by following our own methodology. We built the community of practice to 64 LCS certified green, black and master black belt practitioners and trained >230PPM… Show more Co-founded the start-up and scale-up of MP’s Human Centred Transformation service line, Lean Innovation. Consistently generated >£2m revenue annually and won new and enhanced existing work in Energy, Manufacturing, Aerospace, MOD and Digital. My role as the leader was to convert my vision into action and I did this successfully by following our own methodology. We built the community of practice to 64 LCS certified green, black and master black belt practitioners and trained >230PPM consultants globally to ensure the Lean Enterprise Culture continues to evolve and grow. Show less

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

Led the Strategy development and definition of outcomes, capabilities and targets with appropriate metrics to drive >25% productivity improvements that will deliver significant savings to the £1.5bn operational annual spend. The focus was on Open Innovation and industry best practice from the Institue of Asset Management and the Nuclear Digital Special Interest Group to identify modern ways of delivering asset management solutions across Sellafield. This involved operating model… Show more Led the Strategy development and definition of outcomes, capabilities and targets with appropriate metrics to drive >25% productivity improvements that will deliver significant savings to the £1.5bn operational annual spend. The focus was on Open Innovation and industry best practice from the Institue of Asset Management and the Nuclear Digital Special Interest Group to identify modern ways of delivering asset management solutions across Sellafield. This involved operating model transformation with human behaviours, process automation, Big Data and NextGen technologies such as Digital Twins, condition-based monitoring (IoT), Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Show less

Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

Led a Green Book business case development on the streamlining and digitalisation of delivery processes for Major Projects. This was targeted to improve delivery by >15% by automating process workflow to enable real-time data analytics and progress tracking for effective course correction and risk management. The approach; Think Big, Start Small, Adapt Fast. It was a £6.8m, two-year MVP project with financial benefits realised across five existing major projects with a combined value of… Show more Led a Green Book business case development on the streamlining and digitalisation of delivery processes for Major Projects. This was targeted to improve delivery by >15% by automating process workflow to enable real-time data analytics and progress tracking for effective course correction and risk management. The approach; Think Big, Start Small, Adapt Fast. It was a £6.8m, two-year MVP project with financial benefits realised across five existing major projects with a combined value of >£4bn. Show less

Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

We provided Continuous Improvement support to reengineer the NDA Corporate Centre. This included obtaining Senior Leadership sponsorship, with the rollout of a structured practical problem-solving methodology for 12 months. This resulted in an performance increase and helped build an ISO9001 Quality Management System that delivers across the OneNDA network.Coinciding with the working restrictions due to the COVID-19 virus, our team re-engineered the delivery approach to Lean Innovation… Show more We provided Continuous Improvement support to reengineer the NDA Corporate Centre. This included obtaining Senior Leadership sponsorship, with the rollout of a structured practical problem-solving methodology for 12 months. This resulted in an performance increase and helped build an ISO9001 Quality Management System that delivers across the OneNDA network.Coinciding with the working restrictions due to the COVID-19 virus, our team re-engineered the delivery approach to Lean Innovation and developed it using a combination of online tools which allow improvement events to be conducted 100% remotely. Show less

Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

Sellafield’s Project Delivery Directorate had committed to a £1.9bn saving by 2025 to its parent-body organisation, the NDA and nuclear regulators. To support this challenging target, I led the strategy facilitation across the departments to identify opportunities and develop targets that would deliver the required performance improvements and savings. For this piece of work we supported Sellafield Project Directorate by utilisng the VMOST approach to strategy deployment.

Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

The SEMS Programme leads the rethinking, redesigning and implementation of new ways of delivering work across the Sellafield Ltd site. I led the Major Projects scope to identify where delivery can be made safer, cheaper and more effective and with a target to improve delivery performance by >20%. This work was delivered via 56 workshops to identify the AS-IS and TO-BE states across the project lifecycle, the outputs informed a programme business case that passed HM Treasury approval for… Show more The SEMS Programme leads the rethinking, redesigning and implementation of new ways of delivering work across the Sellafield Ltd site. I led the Major Projects scope to identify where delivery can be made safer, cheaper and more effective and with a target to improve delivery performance by >20%. This work was delivered via 56 workshops to identify the AS-IS and TO-BE states across the project lifecycle, the outputs informed a programme business case that passed HM Treasury approval for funding. Show less

Led the winning bid team to support Sellafield Ltd. for 12 months to provide project improvement consultancy to increase productivity by >20% and uplift their own CI capability of their >£7bn portfolio of Major Projects. Following our Lean Innovation method, the team identified 9 key opportunity areas across the project lifecycle. The outcome was >40% productivity improvement across all opportunities and delivered £4.3m of in year benefits on selected projects, with a further >£92m… Show more Led the winning bid team to support Sellafield Ltd. for 12 months to provide project improvement consultancy to increase productivity by >20% and uplift their own CI capability of their >£7bn portfolio of Major Projects. Following our Lean Innovation method, the team identified 9 key opportunity areas across the project lifecycle. The outcome was >40% productivity improvement across all opportunities and delivered £4.3m of in year benefits on selected projects, with a further >£92m in scaled benefits. Additionally, 34 Lean Champions were trained and established a Lean CoE to drive further improvements. **This project was a finalist for the APM Transformation Programme of the year 2019** Show less

Dounreay, Highland, United Kingdom

PCUBED's Senior Lean Consultant delivering DSRL's Lean Excellence Programme. Pcubed is working in Partnership with DSRL to support the realisation of their vision of Decommissioning Excellence. The Dounreay Nuclear facility is Britain's former centre of fast reactor research and development. It is recognised internationally as one of the most complex nuclear clean-up challenges in Europe.I was the senior Lean consultant reporting to the Programme director, a master black belt… Show more PCUBED's Senior Lean Consultant delivering DSRL's Lean Excellence Programme. Pcubed is working in Partnership with DSRL to support the realisation of their vision of Decommissioning Excellence. The Dounreay Nuclear facility is Britain's former centre of fast reactor research and development. It is recognised internationally as one of the most complex nuclear clean-up challenges in Europe.I was the senior Lean consultant reporting to the Programme director, a master black belt and highly experienced Transformation consultant. We were responsible for the delivery and implementation of the Lean Excellence Programme. Ten 90-day rapid improvement events were delivered with >33% productivity gain. 19 Lean Champions were trained and established a Lean CoE to drive further improvements. Show less

Worcester, England, United Kingdom

Due to the success of developing OEE mobile applications that enabled >82% productivity uplift within manufacturing, I took the leap into consultantling and joined LTS.Brett at LTS rapidly developed me in the skills required to effectively discover and deliver the right solution.

Cookley

Leading and facilitating global cross-functional improvement projects delivering consistent and sustainable results aligned to the business strategic objectives. With key stakeholder management in Production, Quality, Maintenance, Safety and Customer relations, ensuring best practice is shared and embedded through the on going promotion and continuous development of a Lean enterprise culture that empowers the organisation to implement improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and the… Show more Leading and facilitating global cross-functional improvement projects delivering consistent and sustainable results aligned to the business strategic objectives. With key stakeholder management in Production, Quality, Maintenance, Safety and Customer relations, ensuring best practice is shared and embedded through the on going promotion and continuous development of a Lean enterprise culture that empowers the organisation to implement improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and the Environment using Lean methodologies.Key Achievements• Increase operational and process stability by changing the behaviour of associates to act on prevention rather than reaction, using clear visual metrics and structured meetings providing a focus on efficiency and effectiveness not solely volume.• Deployment of Titan’s Lean Enterprise systems globally to deliver real productivity and efficiency improvements across the business, maximising operating income from strong year on year sales growth.• Facilitating European plant redevelopments >£6M, enabling >50% capacity increase to ensure both business and customer objectives are met.• Designed and Delivered a pinoeering digital maintenance mobile application that provided work management and workflow for the engineers• Sustained >94% reduction in downtime across the top four most critical machines, utilising our newly developed Titan T.P.M mobile App. Show less

This role is where I was tasked to use my logical and systematic approach to problem solving to create cross functional teams to engage in a structured, locally driven continuous improvement project system. This role helped me gain an in depth understanding of a manufacturing process flow and instill a root cause analysis procedure for Titan. Key Achievements • Led team of project mangers and process improvement engineers, managing multiple streams of work and CAPEX projects to… Show more This role is where I was tasked to use my logical and systematic approach to problem solving to create cross functional teams to engage in a structured, locally driven continuous improvement project system. This role helped me gain an in depth understanding of a manufacturing process flow and instill a root cause analysis procedure for Titan. Key Achievements • Led team of project mangers and process improvement engineers, managing multiple streams of work and CAPEX projects to transform processes covering >450 employee’s.• Mapping processes, identifying and eliminating NVA, improving information data capture and flow, introducing pull techniques and line balancing to streamline processes. Show less

Europe - Mostly Germany, Sweden, Belgium And Holland.

After gaining my Master Degree in Metallurgy I was appointed this role to aid the Engineering Manager with prevalent metallurgical issues such as:Decarburization of low carbon steels: Steel that was over processed at the steel mill had made it into our final product and was showing in service failures. My role was to identify how these failures had occurred and what the failure mode was. Also to present my findings to our customers.Product failures: With rare instances of in… Show more After gaining my Master Degree in Metallurgy I was appointed this role to aid the Engineering Manager with prevalent metallurgical issues such as:Decarburization of low carbon steels: Steel that was over processed at the steel mill had made it into our final product and was showing in service failures. My role was to identify how these failures had occurred and what the failure mode was. Also to present my findings to our customers.Product failures: With rare instances of in service failures or more commonly product that had failed after the expected life but before the vehicle had, investigations into why were carried out to help with future design improvements. My role was to identify the failure mode and suggest what needs to be done to prevent this kind of failure in the future. This role also covered production metallurgical issues such as; Sub-arc weld cracking, where center line cracking of the weld was occurring with certain steel casts. I identified that we were purchasing steel with a too high a UCS value for our process and needed to define the upper value and put in place a containment procedure for the already purchased steel.This first role was a very interesting one, where I gained an in-depth understanding of the Product Engineering process and how to engage with customers when issues arise. Show less

Cookley

During study of my undergraduate degree in Engineering, I chose to take an industry placement year at Titan Steel Wheels. I felt some real life experience of a manufacturing facility would help me apply my higher learning into practical scenarios rather than just theory. Due to myself having fresh eyes within such a mature manufacturing company, one of my first tasks was to create and present a visual aid showing how the multi-piece rims produced at Titan interfaced with the vehicles… Show more During study of my undergraduate degree in Engineering, I chose to take an industry placement year at Titan Steel Wheels. I felt some real life experience of a manufacturing facility would help me apply my higher learning into practical scenarios rather than just theory. Due to myself having fresh eyes within such a mature manufacturing company, one of my first tasks was to create and present a visual aid showing how the multi-piece rims produced at Titan interfaced with the vehicles and tyres. This was mainly for the Engineering Manager, who would regularly meet with other cross functional teams who would struggle to grasp the orientation or the interaction between the multi-piece rims and the vehicle. The graphics also served as great visual aids for the workforce as many didn't fully understand what they were making and why certain critical aspects were so important.Also during my placement year I was involved in a safety issue where an end user had injured himself not following the correct deflation procedure when removing a multi-piece rim. I was tasked to create an instruction graphic that would be stuck on every rim, to remind the end users the critical stage of the deflation procedure.I really enjoyed my placement year at Titan Steel Wheels, I gained valuable experience which ignited my desire even more to get into a career Manufacturing. With such an interesting year, Titan offered to sponsor my final year at University, with a job offer upon my graduation within their engineering department. Show less

Master Degree - The Science Of Materials, Metallurgical Engineering

Masters Degree in the science and understanding of materials, specializing in Low Carbon Steels.

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lean, Data Science, Innovation, Transformation

Engineering Product Design, Industrial And Product Design

Activities and Societies: Athletics and Debate team. My final year project was on preventing multi-piece steel rims parts slipping during.

A-Levels & As-Levels, Product Design, Graphic Design, Electronics, Human Biology, Phychology & P.E