Possessing very strong technical leadership and always providing people with the self-belief, direction and tools to do their job may not be everything you need, but it certainly helped me get to the top of a £120 Million European Manufacturing Facility.Starting as a Process Engineer, that led to more senior roles in Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement, I have built my career on the foundations of my Project Management & Engineering skills, which still run through my veins today; this is the backbone to my proven track record. Initiating and implementing an employee engaging cost saving process (Flowdown) that delivered site savings of over £4.4MM and was subsequently rolled out to all Worldwide divisions, this must stand out as one of my current career highlights.Key achievement/projects- Pioneered the successful introduction of Lean Manufacturing into PartyLite, by creating the philosophy and then educating and implementing a program of change across the whole company- Transformed the strategic culture of the company by applying Hoshin Kanri (Policy Deployment), so enabling strategic goals to be actioned at every level and in every department- Integral member of a Worldwide Quality Assurance Core Team assembled to implement the Cross Facility Manufacturing Quality Plan - Led, designed, and implemented the successful installation of an International Multi-Site Process Control System upgrade- Delivered the first major raw material formula change in Cumbria, since the factory inception, providing £116k annualised savings - Instigated & headed Cumbria Energy Savings Initiative, including a CHP installation that showed a 20% reduction in Carbon Footprint and £50k per annum saving Specialities:MANUFACTURING - PROCESS ENGINEERING - QUALITY ASSURANCE - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT - PROCESS DEVELOPMENT - CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT - PROJECT MANAGEMENT - LEADERSHIP