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Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

-- Manage the Engineering Projects team, to design, execute and implement projects aligned with the strategic objectives.-- Work with and manage the Engineering Technicians/Maintenance personnel, to maintain factory/processing equipment, with a focus on introducing Lean for improving efficiences on the Bray site.-- Manage the Validation team, ensuring that all new projects, changes or revalidations are executed correctly and in a timely manner.

Bray, Wicklow, Ireland

• • Manager of the Engineering Team. Primary responsibility to establish frameworks to manage Safety, availability and performance of manufacturing equipment, process control, process improvement, continuous improvement, and new product introduction (NPI). Developing and managing the Capital Budget. Strategy to improvement Quality through standardising work instruction, developing response plans, centralised recipe management and more. Management of the internal projects list.• Manager of the Maintenance Team. Primary responsibility to ensure the maintenance of manufacturing equipment, by establishing preventative maintenance systems, response to breakdowns, while ensuring continuous improvement projects are part of the day to day. Influence the transition towards 5S, SMED and TPM. • Other objectives include the introduction of Lean and 6Sigma concepts, machine safe guarding and CE marking of older equipment. Developing strategy to address obsolescent and ageing equipment, machinery, instrumentation, and control platforms. Mentoring/Coaching controls engineers and technicians.

Dublin, Ireland

• Manager/Team Lead of engineering team, people management, allocate and prioritise projects amongst the team. Communicate up, down, locally and internationally. • Led and managed multiple projects, in the design and development of new products up to their introduction (NPI), across the inkjet cartridge business. Working across the entire value chain, from Designers, Manufacturing, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing and Customer Assurance.• Managed the launch of a new WW product families, enabling strategic product launches into commercial printing. Led a problem solving activity, addressing a quality issue on a new ink cartridge, protecting the anticipated ~35M market segment.• Facilitated a cost reduction initiative, across multiple product lines, to remove 10% of direct material costs. Enhanced the Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio across multiple product lines.• Mentored junior engineers and Technicians, to enable their increased to contribution to team projects and activities. Constantly looking at ways to develop and increase the capability of the team (technically and personally).

Dublin, Ireland

• Supervisor for two operations/manufacturing teams, 15-20 direct reports in each team, from operators, to coordinators to technicians.• Responsible for Safety, Quality, Scheduling, Line performance, People Management and Development, Training, Reporting and Continuous Improvements.

Dublin, Ireland

• Trained in the USA for 2 years, learning the process, identifying manufacturing needs and risk, ensuring CE compliance, liaising with the facilities team for transfer and hook-up.• Led the installation, commissioning and validation of new processing equipment on the Ireland green field start-up, value of > USD 25million, over 18 months• Introduction of a leveraged processing machine from wafer processing, valued at 2.5 million (usd). Rolled it out worldwide enabling new product introduction (NPI).• Took part and led product and process developments and improvements through data collection and analysis, experimentation and the selection of value add projects. Improved quality, machine uptime and product reliability.• Produced documentation and training to operators, technicians and support personnel.• Internal ISO Auditor.

Dublin, Ireland

Senior Engineer, working as an Instrumentation and Controls engineer, predominantly in Dairy and Brewery installations.SattContol, Allen Bradley, Siemens PLC and SCADA systems used

Kilkenny, Ireland

Junior Engineer, working in Controls and Automation in Dairy and Confectionary factories.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Honors 2.1 (Ba, Bai)

BA :: Mathematics BAI :: Baccalaureus in Arte Ingeniaria, latin translates to "Bachelor in the Art of Engineering"

Secondary School, Leaving Certificate

Honours A grade:: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Geography Honours B grade :: Chemistry, French