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Paignton

Responsible for manufacturing high quality medium volume hydraulic valves for high profile customers. Achieving sales, quality and performance targets. Responsible for Health and Safety and developing Value Streams. Direct management of 40 staff through 4 team leaders.Reduced backlog by over 50% in 3 months. Introduced controls to improve supplier quality by 75%. Improve productivity by 12%. Developed quality improvement teams to improve FTY from 70%-98% on key products. Supported the implementation of Lean Manufacturing. Outsourced non-core work.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Responsible for Encapsulation of medical products in a sub contract batch environment. Improving quality and achieving sales targets. Direct management of up to 120 staff through 8 Team Leaders. Reduced absence levels from 9.86% - 4.64%. Increased productivity by over 60%. Carry out customer complaint investigations and identify corrective action plans.

Swindon

Managed two facilities based in Swindon. Total of 70 multi-disciplined staff covering a 24 5 day a week operation.Management of H&S, Production Planning, Quality and general site management of both facilities.

Managing a team of 40 multi-skilled employees producing Snack-a-Jacks; planning, coordinating and controlling all activities from raw material intake to warehouse shipmentPart of the core team moving the Manufacture off Snack-a-Jacks into the UK. In doing so completing selection and training of the multi-disciplined project team.

Responsible for 8 SMT lines in a batch production environment. Also assembly and configuration of electronic equipment for the telecoms industry. Direct management of 200 staff through 6 Shift Leaders and up to 15 Technical staff.Introduced 5S and SMED in manufacturing which reduced inventory levels by over 40% and reduced changeover time by 85%. Leading teams to develop WCM philosophies and encourage performance improvements. Redesigned and improved packing to cut costs by 1.2mil per year. Introduced a paperless process throughout manufacturing to improve output by over 30%.