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A senior management position within a global precision ball manufacturing company. The main responsibilities include:• Setting budgets and sales targets across all European plants• Customer support both technical and commercial• Gathering and presenting key data to executives and suggesting necessary reactions to forecasts• Building customer relationships at a senior level• Utilizing market research to drive account retention and growth• Develop sales for newly expanded Poland plant to ensure maximum operating levels

A very challenging role as the operations lead for the drilling and completion scope on the Inpex Ichthys LNG project. Provided 24/7 technical support and input into operations ensuring a safe and successful offshore campaign whilst driving customer satisfaction, which resulted in a continuous KPI improvement at every quarterly review. Always responded to last minute customer equipment requests, and saw the mini projects through design, manufacture and testing phases by demonstrating great time management skills, and achieving this all within budget. Other achievements and responsibilities included:• Management of 16 offshore field service engineers which included pre/post job briefings, mobilisation and technical support• Lead customer meetings and quarterly management reviews. Extensive weekly, monthly and End of Well report writing• Management of Action Tracker ensuring customer schedules were met. Prepare quotations, purchase orders, variation orders, CTR’s, approvals and invoices to customer• Ensured the contract was followed by the team and any compliance issues reported immediately.• Plan and drive Operation Readiness for offshore campaign such as personnel, spares, procedures and quality documentation• Investigated all customer and field technical issues, travelling to customer sites worldwide and successfully implementing changes allowing operations to continue • Ensured all project quality standards were met and issues captured. Implemented numerous ideas which reduced the number of quality incidents on the projectDirect all risk reviews and Hazop. Own and implement actions from the lessons log

Demanding position within the oil and gas industry providing engineer services for large international projects Undertook necessary integration and function testing of trees and controls equipment using IWOCS, hydraulic power and electrical test units. Offshore I was responsible for the installation and commissioning of subsea production systems which I achieved without any downtime to operations. As a supervisor I was required to lead the operations offshore whilst training and mentoring less experienced members of the team. The skills required were:Hydraulics• Regular use of high pressured hydraulics up to 10000psi• Flushing & Pressure testing of hydraulic systems• Faultfinding, rectification and strip down of hydraulic pumps, HPU’s and other hydraulic systems• HPU rebuilds including some pipe bendingElectrics• Setting up and observation of subsea monitoring systems• Installation of electrical distribution systems• Fault finding and rectification on electrical systemsSoftware• Uploaded software updates into topside and subsea equipment• Identified and resolved software related problems

Enjoyed a very successful a career in the Royal Air Force working on a variety of aircraft plant equipment in various locations throughout the world.• Service of hydraulic plant equipment• Fault finding and rectification of a variety of hydraulic systems which lead to the first 100% serviceability record in 10 years• Periodic maintenance of diesel engines including Perkins and Cummings• Faultfinding and rectification of diesel engines• Deep strip and complete engine overhauls• Rectification and maintenance of high-pressure oxygen and nitrogen systems• Inspection and repair of pneumatic systems