Peter Short Email & Phone Number

Standish, Gb

Preston, England, United Kingdom

✅ Championed rigorous quality, reliability, and robustness assessments of products by promoting and facilitating advanced quality tools and techniques throughout the New Product Development (NPD) process.➤ Collaborated closely with R&D Project Leaders to identify, evaluate, and mitigate potential risks, ensuring a smooth and successful product launch.➤ Enforced strict adherence to NPD process guidelines, leading to the successful development of projects that met or exceeded project targets and organisational objectives.➤ Played a pivotal role in cross-project communication, sharing critical insights and information that could impact other projects from various perspectives (platform, range, NPD, pre-development), enhancing overall project quality.➤ Engaged in risk and issue evaluation with Project Managers, ensuring projects aligned with the organisation's quality standards and targets.

✅ Spearheading the design, development and support for the introduction of new marine and automotive products, I provide senior engineering vision and project leadership for the cradle-to-grave management of a portfolio of 15 projects.➤ In-charge for creating an 18-element full-tier PPAP with all relevant AIA16949 documents for submission and approval of new products to auditable standards of major blue-chip automotive companies like JLR, Aston Martin, Perkins and Airbus.➤ Recommending valuable insights to jig and fixture design during prototype stages for both CNC and CMM measurement and manufacturing strategies, including solid-works modelling.➤ Key contact for the full landscape of customer engagements, looking after customer expectations and ensuring all project deliverables adhere to a stated time and budgetary constraints with responsive remediation of potential snags and provision of progress reports, to both customer and internal teams.

Bolton, England, United Kingdom

✅ Responsible for the design, operation and implementation for a portfolio of 16 key products aimed at keeping the company ahead of the fierce competition to best meet the needs of major client accounts such as General Electric.➤ Providing technical sales support to engineers to assess client problems and present tailored design benefits to customers. ➤ Evaluating and purchasing 3D CAD for new applications and internal process, along with lab design and purchasing for internal design, development and validation within an extremely constrained budget of £75,000.➤ Using lean tools and drawing office modelling in 2D/3D to provide structural lifting, bespoke platforms and safety guarding to improve workflow, safety, and standard operating procedures.

Wigan, England, United Kingdom

✅ Senior Inspector responsible for the programming, setting and operating an Impact CMM for the inspection of all production castings, machined parts and assemblies to assure conformance to customer requirements and process capabilities in terms of the required metal mix, mechanical properties, and traceability.➤ Proactively liaising with a wide range of customers to investigate product complaints and issues with returns, ensuring all jobs completed have recorded first offs, first article inspections, calibrated tooling and equipment for “in situ” measuring.

Skelmersdale, England, United Kingdom

✅ Recruited to improve the flow-rate of time from products received from the customer through to delivery, actively dealing with high-profile customers such as Bosch Rexroth and Borg Warner to assess requirements on given ROROI projects for the introduction, selection and purchase of new parts, machines, and tools, along with gauging, jigs and fixtures.➤ In-charge of operating twin spindle and dual table millers to prove out new products, further providing practical support and ongoing training to programmers, setters and operators on the complete requirements of the process.➤ Led the introduction of a SPC computer system that reduced scraps by 20% via pro-active methods across the control limits.

Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom

✅ Responsible for the skilled engineering, machining and production of new and current aerospace parts for major blue-chip aeroplane manufacturers such as Airbus and Hawker Beachcraft, alongside the review of existing programs to suggest for potential improvements while maintaining the highest quality and safety standards.➤ Programming setting and operating CNC lathes and mills with Fanuc controls and working within AS9100 to ensure the compliant use of CNC programs, storage and systems in line with current regulations and policies.➤ Assisted in the manufacturing of a wide range of products to cover flying parts, landing gear bodies, to engine bolts, and none flying parts such as jigs, fixtures, and tooling used in aircraft wing manufacture.➤ Appointed mentor for the training of two apprentices for a year, delivering regular learning and development sessions and sharing industry best practice to up-skill their competencies.

Bsc(Hons), Computer Aided Design, Pass

Mechanical Engineering, Pass