Michael Watson Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB

Global

I have the privilege of leading a global team of Operational Readiness and Platform Readiness Project Managers, deploying SGRE’s global pipeline of new offshore service projects and operationally implementing new offshore platforms and technology.

Northern Europe & Middle East

I lead the team of Operations Design Specialists and Operational Readiness Project Managers responsible for operational design and mobilisation of SGRE's pipeline of new offshore wind farm across Northern Europe and the Middle East.

Kingston Upon Hull, England Metropolitan Area

Senior leadership multi-department head for Lean, Digitalisation, Training & Competency, Data Controlling and Communications at a large scale offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing site. I am responsible for the site's overall strategy process, operational excellence and improvement programmes.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Area (Operations) Manager for 4 confectionary departments producing >19,000 tonnes of FMCG product in a large (550+ FTE) UK confectionary factory. Responsibility for all aspects of production and full suite of KPIs for.
• Direct line management of a team of 10 department managers and indirect management responsibility of ~200 FTEs.
• Member of site leadership (executive) committee
• Management of department variable & fixed cost budgets, CAPEX and project investment

Vevey, Canton Of Vaud, Switzerland

Promotion to Project leader for Performance Acceleration project in Cuautitlan Mexico – Nestle LATAM’s largest petfood manufacturing facility. Led a team of 4 PA Project Managers and 9 factory full time team members. Responsible for overall project results, capability building within factory teams and stakeholdering with senior stakeholders. Project brief.

Iowa, USA; Virginia, USA; Santander, Spain

• The Performance Acceleration Team is Nestle's centralised team of continuous improvement engineers and project managers responsible for delivery of business critical improvement projects across Nestle facilities.
• Litter production factory consisting of Mining, Processing and Packaging operations. Project brief to unlock volume in a capacity constrained environment. Responsible for 4 full time team members 11 projects.
• Multi-category factory. Project brief to deliver sustainable Asset Intensity improvements and standardisation. Responsible for 2 full time team members and 9 projects, specifically focused in the Confectionary.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Production management responsibility for a team of 17 operatives, with responsibility for delivery of a suite of production KPIs (HSE, Q, Cost, Performance, Compliance).

Halifax, York, Carlisle, Wisbech; United Kingdom

Graduate program in Focused Improvement, involving rotations across 4 different Nestle sites in the UK. I worked as a Focused Improvement / Goal Alignment specialist, responsible for deploying TPM and good manufacturing practices, as well as delivering continuous improvement projects (DMAIC, SMED, FMEA).

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Engineering

Engineering System Design, Geochemistry, Renewable Energy, Energy Economics

Bsc, Operations Management

Advanced Operations Management, Lean, Six Sigma, Strategic Management