John Baker Email & Phone Number

Blyth, England, United Kingdom

Blyth, United Kingdom

• Project Manager managing the introduction and integration of all new products into our volume manufacturing environment through a dedicated New Product Introduction department. Responsible for the “Customer Experience”.
• Developed and implemented a New Product Introduction process, ensuring the successful onboarding of multiple new customers and products.
• Responsible for all aspects of managing the introduction of new products, including building customer relationships and ensuring project outputs are delivered to cost and on time.
• Accountable for the profitability of projects and explaining complex manufacturing processes and ideas to new customers as they bring their product into our business.
• Act as the Voice of the Customer within Universal Wolf translating customer requirements and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Ensure projects are planned, risks are managed, procurement is timely, documentation is correct and quality plans are robust for volume manufacture.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Project manager with sole responsibility for multi-million pound design and manufacture projects from initiation to closeout.
• Managing the day-to-day operational aspects of projects to time, cost and quality; resolving or escalating issues as required.
• Developing relationships, working with clients to understand their requirements and develop work breakdown structures and project plans.
• Managing project teams of various engineering disciplines; procurement professionals and subcontractors.
• Production of commercial documentation; flowing down client terms and conditions to subcontractors.
• Project risk management; evaluating risks and developing/costing mitigation strategies.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Junior Project Manager role, reporting directly to project manager for larger projects (>£1m) and sole responsibility for smaller (<£1m) projects.
• Responsible for costing and planning projects (fixed price and reimbursable).
• Generating work packages and task initiation forms.
• Maintaining key performance indicators and presenting monthly to senior management.
• Tracking activities against project plans and monitoring expenditure against project budgets.
• Project closedown activities; including lessons learnt workshops, customer satisfaction interviews and project quality plan and workfile closedown.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Deputy Project Manager in a team delivering all aspects of information system projects (up to £10m) I managed projects across the entire project lifecycle including urgent operational and wider programme requirements..
• Production of User Requirements documentation;
• Review of Design documentation;
• Tender assessment and contract let;
• Leading security working groups and active role in design working groups;
• Overseeing factory acceptance and site acceptance testing.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Eight three-month placements within the MOD and Industry Partners covering a range of engineering and project management disciplines for assessment. Including:
• Project Management Support
• Equipment Support
• Design and DevelopmentContinued Professional Development through courses and peer group projects.