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Adelaide, Sa, Au

Adelaide, Australia

To develop and manage the Production and Logistics Departments and all its fuctions in a timely and accurate manner.

Adelaide, Australia

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Shenzen, China

• Setup of PCBA Electronic assembly plant in Shenzhen, PRC • Designed factory layout of new plant taking into consideration work flow and optimising efficiency • Organised trades to fit-out plant and managed all tasks• Sourcing capital equipment, assessing suitability and negotiating price with suppliers• Commissioning all new equipment• Employing new staff, ensuring they have been adequately trained in tasks and OH&S• Monitoring processes, providing staff with training• Provided IPC training to staff• Planed production meetings, production activities, worker schedules, machine maintenance schedules and maintained budgets and product quality.• Minimized manufacturing costs through effective utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, materials, and capital• Insured the product met the level of quality demanded by the customer, and investigated the root cause when quality was not met and procured a solution• Introduced lean manufacturing principles to the manufacturing facility• Scheduling production jobs • Addressed safety issues and employee safety attitudes of the Chinese staff• Assisted in attaining ISO quality certification of plant

Adelaide, Australia

• Overseeing the production engineering departments• Facilitating production, manufacturing and engineering meetings• Identifying techniques aimed at reducing production costs whilst exceeding ISO and IPC quality requirements• Managing budgets and scheduling• Managing product requirements for multiple clients in the major client group• Preparing business KPIs for company directors• Liaising with internal and external customers, subcontractors and suppliers on issues related to production jobs• Produced cost estimates for new, existing and re-engineered designs• Maintaining production documentation, setting up manufacturing data-packs and releasing them to production floor.• Liaise between the manufacturing sites, locally and offshore to ensure high standard of quality is achieved for client’s products • Provide professional advice and direction on technical issues, including mentoring of engineering staff and operational staff • Understanding and analysing graphs and statistics and other forms of analytics• Conducting presentations and factory tours to potential and existing clientele - aimed at demonstrating technical and professional capability• Liaising with contractors, industry regulators and auditors and senior level management• Managed scheduled maintenance and machinery breakdowns to minimize production downtime • Resolving any day to day production issues

Adelaide, Australia

• Organised, planned, commissioned and maintained production lines• Improved existing operations, incorporating new methods and processes• Designed layout of new plant, organised trades to fit-out plant and managed all relocation tasks• Handled equipment from purchase to commissioning• Investigated operational problems affecting production and resolved them in a systematic and methodical manner• Planned the use of resources and scheduling activities in order to meet objectives• Prepared manufacturing documentation required for product manufacture• Generated and controlled work orders onto the internal ERP system and released final products into production• To setup quotations based on customer specifications, cost, quality, manufacturing and assembly requirements, and serviceability

Adelaide, Australia

• To review and analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and development strategies designed to improve system performance• Liaise with operations and departmental managers to seek project requirements• Created, tested and deployed customised reports compiling data from ERP systems representing live tracking of jobs and KPI’s of the manufacturing plant• Introduced reports that resulted in an overall decrease of the manufacturing cycle schedule• Developed templates with accurate operational standards to simplify the data entry aspect involved in the production of quotes• Trained staff members in the effective use of these systems

Master'S Degree, Engineering

Master’S Degree, Project Management For The Built Environment

Graduate Diploma, Project Management

Microsoft Certified Professional, It & Network Administration

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronic Engineering

Associate'S Degree, Electronic Engineering

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