Defence and Aerospace Engineering Company with annual turnover £11M -£16M, specialising in wiring harnesses (power, signal, data, optical fibre) and electromechanical assemblies for aircraft and military vehicles.Achievements. -Leading and developing a multidisciplinary engineering team across three UK sites and temporary contractors as necessary.-Cleared Engineering backlog of £600k whilst improving efficiency.-Developed engineering operation planning, analysis and reporting to clearly communicate performance and resource availability.-Trained and managed team to consistently meet requirements for ISO 9001 and AS9100 and to support internal and external audits.-Drove improved measurement and accountability for engineering team’s activities to improve quality cost and delivery of jobs to the manufacturing team.-Streamlined and enhanced reporting of management information so that KPI’s were delivered on a daily, weekly or monthly basis as appropriate.-Led restructuring of engineering support for jobs in WIP to an ANDON system known as Red Flags to reduce administrative load and increase the speed of response to the shopfloor, improving OTD and Quality and Cost.-Responsible for engineering project management of defence prime customers fighting vehicle electrical assemblies.-Introduced daily engineering workflow reporting and monitoring to improve OTD across the business. -Key member of the team responsible for developing and delivering highly regulated and specific part finishing and assembly qualification testing for major projects, selecting and validating new sub-contractors.-Plan and adapt to consistently support operational requirements.-BD activity; customer meetings and bid preparation.-Coaching engineering team members growing technical ability and effectiveness within the business.-Successfully managed Engineering work to be flexed across engineers at each site to improve efficiencies and OTD.

Electronics Engineering Company specialising in high temperature, high reliability printed circuit board assemblies for applications in aerospace, space, defence, oil and gas industries. Achievements-Project management of high-reliability circuit orders from bid to delivery. -Preparing bids by creating BoMs and process routings to cost, reviewing specifications. -Working effectively with suppliers, customers, US DoD, and colleagues in Engineering, Manufacturing, QA, the business development team and test services.

Physics specialist teacher, quickly advanced to department leadership roles. Having wanted to spend time teaching, since I was a student, I trained as a Physics specialist teacher at UEA to pursue this interest and give service for some years.

A global supplier of EMI shielding, thermal interface materials, conductive plastics and integrated display solutions supplying aerospace, telecommunication, medical device, defence, commercial and consumer electronics.Achievements-Managed manufacturing operations at the two UK sites in the Division, including a recently acquired operation. -Managed production and planning teams in the UK locations and new product introduction. -Improved the service metrics of the value streams and the overall Business Units by leading the use and implementation of Lean tools and systems within the value streams. -Developed operational plans and business case to justify £250k capital expenditure on equipment for payback in nine months and business growth supplying new products to European and Chinese customers. -Key team member on the European Division HQ relocation team. -Develop targets and strategies for continuous improvement of Quality, Cost, Delivery and Safety KPIs – use these targets to set personal performance plans of operations personnel. -Successfully managed ISO compliance for quality and for environmental management.

Applications Engineer, Parker Hannifin - Chomerics Division.Working in support of key customers, as well as process and product development at both UK sites, for Thermal management products & Optical product manufacturing. Achievements-Successful customer facing problem solving designing in EMI shielding and Thermal Interface products. -Supporting identification of future product trends and new opportunities. -Develop opportunities from concept, through to production. -Managed relationships with customers, vendors, sub-contractors and colleagues, across Europe, USA and Asia Pacific.-Design and deliver training on technical applications, processes and procedures to colleagues and customers.

Development Engineer, Laird Technologies.A global supplier of EMI shielding, thermal interface materials and EMI shield display solutions, supplying aerospace, telecommunication, medical device, defence, commercial and consumer electronics. Achievements-Managed design, new product introduction, production processes, pricing and supply for the EMC Shielded Windows business unit, serving customers world-wide. -Successfully managed the integration of acquisition assets. -Accurate knowledge transfer of manufacturing capability from an acquisition to the main UK facility. -Ensured reliable production by production cell design, writing standard work instructions and quality procedures.-Provided technical support for a range of plastic, metallic and elastomer thermal and shielding products. -Promoted after ten months from Technical Engineer to Development Engineer to drive process and product improvement across the product ranges.

Project Engineer, Materialise UK.Rapid Tooling for plastic injection moulding and 3D Printing for FMCG, industrial and automotive customersAchievements. -Detail quoting of plastic injection moulding projects-Successful design optimisation for tooling and post moulding processes. -Design for manufacture and assembly, including material selection, to improve cost and performance. -Implemented process improvements as part of Continuous Improvement program, increasing throughput of projects.