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Swindon, GB

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Tidworth, England, United Kingdom

• Project lead with overall responsibility for a team of over 90 personnel, as well as the production control and management of a large fleet of armoured vehicles, their associated technical systems, support vehicles and.
• Definition of project scope and strategy to ensure equipment platforms are maintained at a minimum availability of 85% to meet the UK’s very high readiness commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
• Leading a multi-disciplined team in a matrixed organisation through prioritisation, clear direction, monitoring, and verification of deliverables.
• Escalation lead and key presenter to executive level on all project related status, roadblocks, and opportunities.
• Integrated and planned maintenance, servicing, modifications, inspections, new vehicle integration and MOT standard schedules.
• Captured trend analysis, implementing effective Lean processes whilst providing a focal point for engineering excellence.

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei-Muara District, Brunei

• Project Manager and Lead Engineer on loan service from the British Army to the Sultanate of Brunei Armed Forces in SE Asia. Led 2 large scale multi-million pound projects to supply the Royal Brunei Armed Forces with.
• Key stakeholder engagement across large cross functional group spread geographically from UK to SE Asia.
• Seamless takeover of complex armoured vehicle overhaul project at delivery stage.
• Project managed key milestones and key performance indicators (quality assurance) to ensure main contractor met targets on time and within quality specifications.
• Attended site meetings regularly to ensure project timescales were in line with requirements.
• Planned and maintained product development work streams for a team of highly trained specialists. Built and sustained capacity and capability within the project team to ensure delivery of the project within deadlines.

Lyneham, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible to senior management team for the planning and implementation of Engineering workforce guidelines throughout the business, circa 6000 personnel.
• Utilised business tempo modelling and customer needs analysis to produce workforce plan for the following three years.
• Collaborated and negotiated with both customer and business leaders on revised workforce targets to ensure that suitable revised proposals/solutions could be agreed and delivered within the next financial year.
• Further developed the current modelling system to make it more user-friendly for both the customer and the business. This resulted in reduction of customer dissatisfaction by over 30%, and had a positive effect of.
• Supported senior management team in decision making, particularly around sensitive employment issues.

Warminster, England, United Kingdom

• Lead engineer responsible for all aspects of safety during the trialling of weapons for the British Army. Regularly required to produce technical reports highlighting effectiveness of engineering equipment to meet.
• Ensured all weapon systems were fully conversant with military and civilian regulations at all stages of individual projects.
• Held regular project team meetings gaining project updates, analysing successful completion of short term goals, and discussed progress towards long term outputs.
• Supported project managers with delivery of key milestones and reports to ensure project deadlines were met.
• Produced presentations, reports and reviews with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Topcliffe, N Yorks

• Managed the engineering department of the Equipment Support Services, consisting of 40 multi disciplined technicians, establishing and agreeing all performance objectives. Monitoring and encouraging the highest.
• Managed vehicles and engineering equipment costing approximately £100m, controlling Pre Planned Maintenance (PPM) and unscheduled repairs for all vehicles and associated engineering systems, in accordance with current.
• Lead Engineer responsible for the design, development and implementation of technical and non-technical policies and documents.
• Lead on all Lean events, which have subsequently led to significant organisational change and produced a more effective and efficient department, saving time and resources.
• Delivered regular Equipment Care training and technical training workshops to all personnel; ensuring competency on both vehicle and weapon systems
• Produced and presented regular production presentations/meetings to senior management and advised on decision making.

Level 6 Diploma In Leadership And Management

Hnd Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Agile Pm, Project Management