Mike Beard Email & Phone Number

Responsible for the Health and Safety Culture throughout the UK and European facilities. Introducing employee engagement through unsafe situation reporting, endorsing a proactive approach to safety through detailed root cause analysis and robust preventive measures. Introduction of site wide safety walks in all facilities improving employee knowledge and.

Gloucestershire

Group Health Safety and Environmental ManagerAccountable for the total site production with 162 direct employees. Site Maintenance and facilities.Hands on Continuous Improvement Specialist

• Working within the Regional and Military Value Stream:.Responsible for the Value Stream Health and Safety
• Responsible for the complete supply chain planning to deliver the plan in-line with the valued customer requirements
• Instigating and Driving Lean Mythologies throughout the process, driving down costs to gain a competitive advantage over our Competitors.
• Managing the tactical interface with our customer’s ensuring exceptional customer service is achieved.
• Managing KPI’s throughout the process in-line with the budgeted business requirements.

· Responsible for the complete operation which includes production, responsible for the manufacturing infrastructure 70,000 unit’s pa totalling 11.5 million (sales turnover) assembly/customisation manufacturing,warehousing, distribution, supply chain, customer service and finance.· Influencing strategic decisions. Recent example, centralise the production.

• Responsible for the Manufacturing, Quality, Production and Maintenance activities. Accountable for departmental performance improvements in all areas.
• Worked alongside other Factories around Europe to implement a share and re-use culture which resulted in fresh ideas and significant cost savings.
• Project management including:Reducing customisation process time by 70%.Developing new process cutting lead-time to customers on special products by 4 weeks.Achievements recognised at board level, resulted in promotion.

Responsible for all processes and procedures within a high batch manufacturing faciliy.Implemented captital expenditure bringing cost savings and productivity improvements.Responsible for Factory and Facility maintenance including HSE

Responsible for the total faclities and Engineering resourse.