Peter Walker Email & Phone Number

Aylesbury, Bucks, GB

• Responsible for Purchasing; Estimating; Inbound / Outbound Logistics of electronic and electro-mechanical assemblies with associated components for secure communication devices for various markets (Military, Aerospace.
• Developing the capability of staff through coaching, positive empowerment and CPD.
• Undertaking process mapping with 8D problem solving with Supply Chain personnel and suppliers to improve key business and departmental metrics. Key PCBA supplier SOTIF up from 15% to 95% and climbing, overall SOTIF at.
• Lean sprint master, end-to-end demand process mapped in readiness to implement S&OP. Promoting concurrent engineering to get early Supply Chain involvement in Projects to minimise delays in latter stages.
• Managing inventory through cycle counting, secure systems, batch/lot controls, new stores layout, obsolescence reduction, GFE controls etc. Monthly reviews with Finance, Programmes & Operations.
• Implementation of Supplier Business Reviews and Supplier Maturity Matrix of critical suppliers to continually strengthen long term partnerships.

Austin, Texas, US

• SMED coordinator to reduce Die change times
• Six-month contract to support the expanding Press Tooling programme to meet new business from Jaguar Land Rover and increasing business from the VW group.
• Using my process mapping, PFMEA, IT and Supply Chain experience to implement tooling vending machines to manage press tooling, stamp blocks, cutters and electrodes used by the shopfloor.
• Project managing the 3rd party manufacture of a 250T Press Component Transfer System to be retro fitted to a new AIDA press.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Merged the purchasing of four premier SPX brands through a standard SAP set of processes to provide effective materials planning & supply across configured-to-order, engineered-to-order and project managed products.
• Utilised the global sourcing team to procure from low cost country vendors.
• Created and ran a major Inventory Reduction project to reduce inventory cost by 20% involving all areas of the business; I.e. sales through to shipping. Key areas reviewed included purchasing processes, vendor.
• Purchased a wide range of components, services and indirects, e.g. castings (including exotic steels), forgings, machined components, fabrications, hardware, computers, welding supplies, packaging, contract labour.
• Performance improvement planning and monitoring of buyers using weekly SAP purchasing metrics to monitor supplier on-time delivery, ensure resource availability, purchase orders created and maintained according to the.
• Subject Matter Expert in SAP / Purchase-To-Pay process standardisation with IBM consultants.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Created Value Stream Maps (current and future state) to design and implement lean processes from Order Entry to Despatch across two cross-plant manufacturing sites to grow a world leading business by 100% in one year.
• Justified and installed two new Vertical Turning Lathes (£750k) and one second hand Vertical Turning Lathe to increase capacity four-fold to meet increased orders.
• Set up Standard and Engineered groups based on processes to meet market needs.
• Lead SAP Variant Configuration engineer implementing the automatic creation of Bills-Of-Materials direct from the web based sales tool allowing creation of immediate production orders.
• Implemented a lean manufacturing cell and kanban to grow a standard cast product.
• Lean Office utilising value stream mapping to reduce time from Order Entry to creation of the Bills-Of-Materials by 67%.

Manufacturing and Order Entry Configurator lead in New Product Introduction (NPI) programmes to reduce time-to-market project lead time and sales order lead times. Use of design and process FMEAs to design out NPI issues.Implemented a lean manufacturing system based on Takt time to meet new sales & marketing strategy and allowing the build rate to increase.

• Shift Planning & Manager Curing Dept.
• Hands-on production management experience on a 24/7 vulcanisation process.
• Accountability for meeting the daily production plans. Responsible for production controls, managing defect reduction projects and optimising the maintenance engineering schedules.
• Lead health & safety risk assessor and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) co-ordinator.Safety Engineer – Project Engineering Dept,
• Justified and introduced Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) into the company.
• Created complex machinery risk assessments to comply with BS EN standards using FMEA.

Msc, Advanced Manufacturing Systems

B.Eng, Mechanical And Production Engineering