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Crick, England, United Kingdom

Coventry, United Kingdom

Coventry, United Kingdom

Coventry, United Kingdom

Jaguar Land Rover, Engine Manufacturing Centre, Wolverhampton

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• 1st Tier Plastic Injection Moulding interior supplier to JLR & GM. Responsible for identification, facilitation and support implementation of cost saving initiatives.• Support roll out of IAC Production System (Operational Excellence), to include training staff and manage shop floor projects.• Facilitate and lead cross functional team based Kaizen Events, support Six Sigma Events, and Project management shop floor “Mini-kaizen”, with Lean training support, sharing best practice.• Exercises included Kanban, 5S, SMED, Cell based KPI’s, and autonomous OEE analysis systems.• Support senior management in achieving plant savings target of US$5 million.• Individually project managed (NPI / Launch) insource 8 off parts, exp saving of US$1.0mil+ to group.

Midlands

• Responsible for delivery and facilitating Client facing workshops. • Transferring Lean skills and knowledge to the Client. • Ensuring Client projects remain on target and delivering the outcomes. Specific Clients include: Aerospace (Defence) Revalidation: 100% feature verification, creating inspection and control plans for all features against engineering drawings, creating SOP/Technical Instructions. Practical Problem Solving: aiming for zero raised concessions for NPI / Reintroduction of critical and sensitive parts including blades, root causes and sustainable countermeasures for previous non-conformance features and processes. Expected savings of £255,000-£500,000 over 40 engines.Performance Automotive: Delivering highly in-depth PPS training (L3-4 BIT) to all Quality and Manufacturing Engineers & Function Group Managers, coaching and facilitating structured problem resolution, ranging from part design, process optimisation, inspection methods and supplier improvement.Utilities (Gas & Water): Supporting the identification of cost savings and programme streamlining opportunities, both accounting top down and ground up views, creating & analysing business & P&L accounts. End to end process analysis with a view of radical restructuring, remove causes of unnecessary costs (fines, rework, under-utilisation of crews), introduction of PMO to aid project management, generate PID & PODs to show cost improvement programs and projects.NHS: Make existing plans and creating new Cost Improvement Projects that are robust and aligned to strategic objectives. Supporting implementation of PMO for effective governance at all levels from Corporate COO & CEO down to Directorates and Medical Specialities. Support culture change to align business practices to value in terms of patients and Block Contracts.

Nottingham

Revalidation of Aerospace Combustion and Casings Parts, for civil, military and small private jets.Creating documentation, procedures and the overall technical package for CAA compliance and 100% verification of manufacturing processes and inspection methods.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Working on live projects within manufacturing sites, facilitating with teams from operator to director level, using a structured data collection and problem solving approach, to spread a culture of continuous improvement and create a thinking workforce.Clients include shot-peening for aeronautical and high spec automotive manufacturers, high volume unique and off-the-shelf fasteners, high volume automotive electronics, cold rolling steel, large scale forging for the defence industry, high quality flooring manufacturer, carpets, and daylight/windows producers.Encompassing using factory simulations to first learn lean principles and use knowledge in live projects, to create real quantitative results relevant to company specific requirements.Examples of previous projects:Site wide Value stream mapping, scrap reduction, in house process capacity improvement through cycle and lead time reduction, changeover reduction with SMED/OTED, flow process analysis and layout optimisation , making improvements and then standardising across cell/zone, risk assessments & health and safety enhancements.Implemented and trained Lean tools such as:PDCA & DMAICFlow Process Analysis & VSM’sLoad levelling (Heijunka)5S8 WastesRCA Tools (Ishikawa, 5Why)SMED/OTED (QCO)KPI’s S QCD PETPM & OEEPractical Problem Solving (PPS) Visual Management and Visual ControlsPoka-Yoke / Kanban / OPF Constraint Management (TOC)Standardised Work / SOP’s

International

ISO9001 Internal Auditing. Ensure quality maintained from supplier issues to production line.Facilitating with production teams, fault finding and rectification. Final product auditing and testing, ensuring safety conforms to domestic and international standards.

Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Lean, Business, Production, Physics

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