Michael Briggs Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Australia

• Ensure asset purchasing & disposal processes are carried out under appropriate contracts, in line withcorporate process & maximise commercial benefit;
• Day-to-day accountability for the integrity, use and development of Asset Systems;
• Provide support to the business on CoR matters and processes pertaining to assets;
• Maintain data sets and conduct analysis to track cost to operate and provide insights;
• Monitor KPIs across the asset portfolio to highlight improvement, waste or developing risks;
• Develop strategies to improve utilisation and fluidity of assets;

Greater Sydney Area

• Ensure that machine build & spare parts inventory holdings are optimal by directing analyses of min/max levels, usage patterns & re-ordering strategies;
• Determine budgets & track KPIs;
• Build & maintain relationships with suppliers, vendors & state distribution branches;
• Search & source new/alternate suppliers & vendors as well as negotiate lower pricing;
• Oversee the recruitment, hiring & training of new staff;
• Provide regular progress reports to CEO;

Greater Sydney Area

• Manage all inbound international air & sea freight parts shipments;
• Coordinate the dispatch of parts nationally liaising with freight companies for all receiving state branches & dealers;
• Utilise the most cost-effective means of freight to branches or direct to customer;
• Prioritise & inform branches concerning the dispatch of parts in accordance with their requirements - i.e. vehicle breakdown parts & shelf stock replenishment;
• Review warehouse procedures & systems to continually strive to eliminate non-value adding activity from daily process;
• Manage staffing levels to meet service delivery SLAs;

Canberra, ACT

• Run a 24 hr x 6 day x 50,000 t/yr materials recovery facility [MRF] - sorting, recycling & selling of commingled & return scheme glass, plastics, metals;
• Manage a multi-cultural workforce (with 50% casual labour) of 47 including hiring, training & development;
• Analyse equipment downtime to track OEE [using Excel / Power BI] to recommend & implement select capital works improvement projects to increase production throughput from 11 to 17 t/hr;
• Implement hazard control safe work procedures to protect line workers;
• Manage an $8M annual budget with monthly P&L / EBIT responsibility;
• Improved monthly EBITDA by $250k in 2019 through daily OpEx cost control;

Uralla, NSW

• WH&S management of a non-ferrous foundry;
• Leadership & development (training) of all manufacturing staff;
• Plan production capacity to match time sensitive customer delivery;
• Ensure cast manufactured products meet quality standards & specifications;
• Development, monitoring & monthly reporting of production & safety KPIs;
• Maintain key plant (compressor, furnace, forklift, spray booths) for maximum availability;

Hunter Valley, NSW

• Identify & prioritise opportunities for business improvement to close performance gaps for Mine Manager - e.g. continuous haul truck fuel consumption;
• Applying continuous improvement methodology to analyse problems & develop solutions;
• Analyse root causes of performance gaps, process failures & production time operating delays adding no-value (i.e. wasting time);
• Apply strong change management & influencing skills to assist in delivering sustainable cost effective solutions to transform the operation;
• Develop, coach & grow a Lean culture in site superintendents & supervisors.

Newcastle, NSW

• Analyse failure incident data to recommend cost/benefit changes to overhaul strategy for parts such as fans, air cons, pumps, governors, motors & wheels to optimise run life between scheduled change outs;
• Following FMEAs, validate subsequent engineering reliability improvements using 8D process to give customer confidence in fleet reliability & competitive advantage to fulfil delivery contracts.

Newcastle, NSW

• Analyse, optimise & manage a $25M heavy rail parts inventory across 8 regional NSW/QLD warehouse locations for maintaining a fleet of of 350 locomotives to maximise asset availability & achieve cost centre savings;
• Streamline daily inventory planning of consumables & overhaul parts picking per work order with associated logistics processes;
• Maintain high accuracy with configuration of heavy rail assets;
• Re-design workshop & storage layouts for improved work flow;
• Seek & develop new parts supplier & contractor relationships for products or services for better cost/benefit to the business;
• Mentor maintenance staff undertaking Lean education & learning activities.

Gosford, NSW

• Maintain compliance to site ISO9001 quality management system;
• Conceived & rolled out a new Visual Management initiative as part of site wide Lean business transformation including: ► Teach a 5S culture to create & maintain visual order on production floor; ► Introduced concept of.
• Lead cross-functional department Green Belt teams completing cost saving projects to improve business profitability.

Gosford, NSW

• Visit paper mill customers in technical design, applications & service capacity to recommend & close sales on custom paper machine belting solutions as well as supervise manufacturing quality of supplied products [AUS.
• Apply statistical analysis [Minitab] to production data to sell product upgrades;
• Use R&D process to develop product solutions for customer requirements.

Gosford, NSW

• Manage quotations, sales orders, production schedule & delivery logistics for largest customer group.

B.E. (Mechanical), Mechanical Design

Bachelor of Engineering (Mech) - Class 1 Honours

Certificate Iii In Competitive [Lean] Manufacturing, Business Improvement

Activities and Societies: Certificate III - Competitive (Lean) Manufacturing

Certificate Iv In Pulp & Papermaking Technology