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County Longford, Ireland

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

A progressive Manufacturing Consultancy attached to a Legal practise. Multi talented group of time served engineers focused on practical process improvement and business Turnaround.

Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom

Multi country and organisation understanding to implement productivity and structural improvement

Comber, Belfast. NI

Overseeing a variety of different projects to drive energy optimisation, productivity and New Business development

Roscommon, County Roscommon, Ireland

Working with the factory team to improve productivity. Linking with the Irish sister factories to exploit synergies. Preparing to implement the Radius MRP system to improve production control. Improving the communication around planning and despatch.

Crumlin, Newport. Wales

Acting as Interim Operations manager following acquisition of Heathpak by Solidus. Centre Bridge provided VC Capital. Identifying synergies and working on improving performance. Part of 100 day plan to drive performance and integrate the business.

Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom

Various projects to improve the business. Initially leading a migration from RMA to sharepoint for alll key business files. Approximately 5 million files transferred on time and to budget. Then moved to Project Manager on an Industry 4.0 project. Scoping the deployment, identifying the key risks, and working with the senior team to define a successful roll.

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Gulf Can Industries produce Monobloc Aerosol Cans for the perfume, household and pharma markets. They currently produce approximately 100 Million cans in 5 diameters, with plans to introduce other sizes and formats. Capable of printing designs in 8 colours, we are able to produce eye catching designs to delight the consumer. We employ around 130 people and.

Jeddah Governorate, Saudi Arabia

Crown operate 5 Lines in 2 factories in Saudi Arabia, the factories were built in the 1980’s and service a thriving Beverage sector in the Kingdom. The factories also support export business in the region. The factories in Jeddah and Dammam operate extremely efficiently and produce over 2 Billion cans / year. The administration office is based in Jeddah.

Jebel Ali, Dubai

Al Ghurair Group, one of the foremost conglomerates in the UAE. Arabian Can produce 3-Piece cans for most Middle East markets and have a modern production facility in Jebel Ali. My brief is to move the business forward and to improve the overall performance. A fascinating introduction to the Middle East.

Chesterfield

My first time manufacturing spirally wound Cardboard containers, I have returned to Packaging making composite containers rather than metal. The Chesterfield site was purchased from Robinson's 2 years ago and required some TLC.

Comber, Belfast Northern Ireland

Operating initially as an Interim General Manager, but then moved to full time General Manager in 2010. Responsible for the day to day operation of the business. A wonderful dynamic business with fearsome growth. A new challenge everyday and an introduction to BRC, Audits and the rigours of the food industry

Kidlington, Oxford

Major piece of work was a Procurement Project at Gloucester NHS. It was a fascinating project with challenges at Technical, Team and Client levels. The project was delivered on-time and within the budget. A eye-opening view of the public sector

Telford, United Kingdom

Joined PO to put in a SAP system. Formed a project team and had to do significant work on data to get SAP to work. The system worked and ended up taking on the logistics role on the board. Automotive was a very much more dynamic ride than packaging and there was never a dull day.

Merthyr Tydfil

Many manufacturing challenges as we created a European Metal Packaging Company. Very exciting times based initially based in Merthyr Tydfil then in Southall, London. High profile customers with challenging requirements.

Wantage, Oxfordshire

Leading the manufacturing Implementation of JDE across Europe - Height of the project there were over 130 people in two huge project rooms, a mixture of JDE, IBM and fellow employees. Crown took over CarnaudMetalbox in the middle of the system integration. I became heavily involved in the integration politics as the project was used as a tool to drive the.

Worcester, United Kingdom

Having complained about the Logistics to Arbroath was offered the newly created role of Logisitcs director on the Food can board. Business was flying and much intrigue with BST and the steel boys. Business needed a replacement ERP heavily involved in selection process and then called to Wantage to work on the project team.

Arbroath

Had to down-size plant from 79 to 48 and watch issues due to the local Timex dispute. Wonderful workforce, factory was back to same output levels 12 months after restructure. A manufacturing high in my Career. Travelled to Kyoto to spend 10 days with Professor Yamashina - life changing!

Worcester, United Kingdom

Working on acquisitions in Northern Europe. Sent to Poland to look at a fish plant in Gdansk, then Goleniov in Poland. Finally to Finland to purchase Sohlberg can-making to allow the family to expand Perlos, Nokia's plastic moulder. Learnt a great deal about acquisitions from Markus Troberg, our wonderful Finnish lawyer.

Worcester

Starting as Hoppmann business and then developed into Simplimatic. Developed a business which handled all sorts of plastic parts from the Femidom to Beer widgets. A real business development role.

Bsc, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: The Marchmont Debating Society, Porkers Rugby, Skiing,A practical course covering both Mechanical and Electrical.

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