Michael Bennett Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Consulting to Ventia Defence, Defence Base Services(DBS) and Defence Maintenance and Support Services (DMSS) Contracts for the provision of Strategic Development and Advisory, Leadership Development and Coaching, Transformation Governance, Organisational Design and Change Leadership, Innovation Accelerator Development, Collaboration and Asset Management.

Sydney, Australia

Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia

Management of major Manufacturing Operations in Australia for Weir Minerals. Management of 300+ people. Developed Smart Factory Framework and deployed Internet of things (IOT) platform into operation for process optimization and machine reliability improvements. Developing Artificial Intelligence approach to robotic process automation to integrate into.

Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia

Researched, benchmarked and architected technology transformation program for Weir Minerals Artarmon facility including full business case justification for multiple scenarios.

Sydney, Australia

Program Management of deployment of SAP global template for Weir Minerals across 16 countries. Management of program from design, development, implementation and support. Managed 70+ SAP consultants based in Malaysia to support deployment.

York, Pennsylvania

• Management of two manufacturing and service facilities in York Pennsylvania, USA and Montreal, Quebec, Canada plus sales supporting Europe and Latin America
• Responsible for all aspects of the business including P&L, Safety, Sales and Marketing, Engineering, Operational Performance, Supply Chain (including strategic procurement, purchasing, supplier negotiation, contract.
• Management of 300+ people across two manufacturing facilities communicating in multiple languages.

York Pennsylvania

• Responsible for Safety, Operational Performance, Supply Chain (including strategic procurement, purchasing, supplier negotiation, contract management, warehousing and logistics), Lean, Facilities Management and.
• Pivotal in driving safety culture and safety performance improvement including 1113 + days without LTI plus reduction of TIR from 12.1 to 3.64
• Increased output 20% year on year.
• Implemented Weir Production System for 20%+ improvement every six months.
• Won the prestigious Weir annual global award for Most Improved facility less than two years after Weir acquires the business,
• Instrumental in designing and developing the WAH sales and operations planning process(S&OP).

York, Pennsylvania Area

• Shadow previous American Hydro owner to succeed upon retirement.
• Drive integration of American Hydro into Weir Safety System, Weir Commercial System and Weir Production System.

Artarmon, Sydney

• Consultant to the business on pump assembly transformation project.
• Developed and provided recommendations for commercial objectives for moving pump assembly operations to another Weir facility.

• Responsible for a team of 80 people covering Strategic Procurement, Purchasing, Supply Chain Operations and Distribution (5 warehouses nationally covering New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia).
• Responsible for approx $AUD 350M of stock turn annually in support of project manufacturing.

• Develop Programme and Project Management process and practices based on PMBOK.
• Governance and oversight of all projects in UGL Rail from business improvement to delivery style projects.
• Assist business in delivering business improvements.

• Management of manufacturing sub contract project by China Southern Rail (CSR, Punzhen) in Nanjing China.
• Management of 10+ project team in China and 15 people in Hong Kong Office.
• Management of refurbishment project by for MTR (Hong Kong Rail)

• UGL Rail representative on UGL group deployment of SAP into business. SAP deployment included Purchasing, Production, Service, Material Management, Finance, Payroll, Employee Self Service, and Manager Self Service.
• Ensuring SAP process and configuration meets the varied requirements of the business.
• Manage all aspects of change management and implementation pre and post go-live.

• Develop all aspects of UGL Rail systems and processes to deliver an Integrated Management System.
• Provide leadership and governance to the business in aligning fragmented policy, process, procedures, forms etc brought about by business acquisitions.

• Understand and develop current business baselines to identify opportunities for Qantas Technical Services continuous improvement.
• Provide Qantas Technical Services management with new business and process model solutions for improved quality, cost, turn time and safety.

• Manage Compliance System support within Qantas Engineering to satisfy Company regulatory obligations.
• Manage the Qantas Engineering Intranet and coordinates Qantas Engineering departmental intranet business development

Avionics

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