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Coventry

Responsible for Manufacturing, Logistics, Purchasing and Design.

York, United Kingdom

Providing business consultancy to the furniture and building products sector, including market research, product development and customer service improvement strategies.

Doncaster, United Kingdom

Omega plc is the leading UK supplier of kitchen furniture to independent retailers.Accountable for 140 people and reporting to the Chief Executive, with responsibility for Manufacture, Engineering, Facilities, Safety & Business Continuity.• Proposed, justified and rapidly implemented a £1m bespoke finishing plant from scratch in 18 months, saving £2m pa in running costs• Led a new product introduction project to completion on time and on budget then consistently achieved quality levels of 99.5%• Reduced unit labour costs by 43% and increased output to 125 kitchens per week • Restructured the production team to produce volume growth of 35% and improved internal service levels• Cut replacement material costs by 21% to just 0.96% of sales and halved replacements of painted parts to 3% of output, improving customer service and creating capacity• Managed business risks by developing comprehensive systems for environment, safety and business continuity compliance• Played a key role in the product development team to increase product USPs

Responsible for production, engineering, facilities management, safety, environment and HR for the whole business, including negotiating on plant, energy & facilities contracts.• Led significant capital projects including facilities, machinery and major civil works, doubling capacity and improving flow • Contributed significantly to rapid growth of turnover and profitability• Implemented business systems including SAP, time & attendance and access control• Participated in launching a very successful IPO• Designed and implemented a sensitive business restructure and redundancy programme• Created a business plan for a new brand, and gained Board approval to launch the range• Improved employee engagement through a raft of initiatives including apprenticeships, training the workforce in lean 6 sigma techniques, introducing a bonus scheme and presenting business updates to the workforce. Attendance improved to 98% and staff turnover was reduced to 9% pa

Responsible for Production, Engineering, Facilities management, Safety and Environment.• Introduced operating procedures, HR systems & safety regimes. Improved quality management • Increased output, improved productivity and introduced new automated assembly lines

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing 120 people in the machine shop and finishing department.• Introduced PBR bonus scheme and new CNC machinery.• Reduced batch quantities and cycle times to reduce inventory and improve responsiveness. • Organised prototyping, introduced new products and bought raw materials

Wetherby West Yorks Uk

• Introduced ISO9002 within 6 months• Ran a quality improvement and culture change programme• Changed the ethos from QC to QA • Improved visual management and implemented smarter KPIs

Bachelor Of Engineering B.Eng. (Hon), Production Engineering

Final project concerned forming manufacturing cells using Group Technology.

Post Graduate Diploma, Personnel Practice, Mcipd

Human Resources Management with viva voce on Safety Management.

Institutre Of Wood Science Certificate, Iwsc (Merit)

Study of Timber and wood based products.