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Leicester, Gb

Desford, England, United Kingdom

Northampton, England, United Kingdom

Northampton, England, United Kingdom

Leicester, United Kingdom

Responsibility for site Management of 1.5million sqft Logistics Facility.Responsibility or site Management and Operational Management for 5 remote sites, equating to a further 600k sqftResponsibility for internal Planning and Engineering, Maintenance and Project Management teams.

Desford Leicester

Desford Leicester

Neovia Logistic Land Rover ContractOperational responsibility for all Outbound processing from order picking to world-wide delivery to Land Rover customers and Regional warehouses.Responsibility for managing 220+ warehouse associates, 8 supervisory management and 12 salaried employees in alignment with client KPI requirements and business plan objectives. Instrument in driving key cultural, process and operational changes to transform ageing facility and workforce.

Overall Operational reasonability for 130,000 sqft facility providing next service for aftermarket automotive retail customers base. Responsible for providing and implementing a facility strategic direction, including the delivery of world-class operational metric using CPS principles and strong leadership.Overall responsibility for delivering profitability through manpower and resource management in alignment with lean principles.Responsible for employee EOS action plans and sustaining facility safety performance.Maintained daily interaction with the client to ensure facility is working in alignment with the client's goals and adding value to their organization

Responsible for leading, Management and strategic direction of Supervisors and Warehouse associates, direction and leadership delivering world-class quality and performance levels whilst delivering best in class employee engagement.Responsible for implementation and embedment of CPS principles, within Caterpillar Hinckley facility.Accountable for Contractual management of, third party, off site kitting facility Responsible for ensuring continual profitability of external client contract through proactive management of Headcount, department expense and ongoing performance improvements Delivering Performance improvements of 14%Leading facilities CPS initiative currently scoring QH 48.68 and Volvo 44.66

Responsibility for development and implementation of Outbound processes and functional areas. Including TUPE employee discussions, relocation and integration into new facility, resource planning and volume ramp-up.Accountable for ensuring performance and quality metric continually exceeding targets and delivering cost reduction to ensure breakeven and profitability requirements are met year on year40.5 LPMH, 2009 Average 3.62 per 10K bin denials, 2009 average 6.75 Claims per 10K, 2009 average (Qtr4 2009 4.45 per 10KEOS facility Score 2009 80%

X Part and Landrover CDC OperationsResponsible for process and procedure improvements within a 1,000,000+ sqft automotive worldwide central distribution center including cost reductions and productivity enhancements. Responsible for Management and cost control of machine fleet worth £1.5mManagement of operation's team to ensure location availability throughout £40m inventory transfer. Successfully redesigned and implemented 40,000 sqft bulk storage areas to increase location availability by 22%.Successfully design tendered and installed storage and MHE requirements for FG Wilson Inventory transfer.Adopted 6 sigma methodology to reduce machine fleet costs by £60,000 per year.Adopted 6 sigma methodology to reduce facility damage costs by £40,000 per yearSuccessfully maintained location availability through biggest transfer in Cat Logistics history

Responsible for the design, tender and procurement and installation of 2 million racking project along with numerous smaller scale facilitisation projects .Responsible for the design, tender, procurement and installation of semi automated battery changing and maintenance equipment.Successfully managed design procurement and installation of racking installation project with no impact to MG Rover inventory transfer.Instrumental in ensuring facility readiness for inventory transfer.

Responsible for design and implementation of five in process validation test cells including project management of specification, manufacture and installation stages of rolling road system.Played key roles in relocation and redesign of 2 production assembly lines incorporating Kiazan and Kanban methodologies.Successful project management of £750,000 rolling road project.Completed 6 sigma green belt accreditation and project

City And Guilds Level 3, Autocad 2D Drawing

Higher National Certificate, Business Studies; Engineering

Higher National Certificate, Motor Vehicleengineering