Phillip Kellett Email and Phone Number

I am currently working for Bureau Veritas as an Engineering Surveyor within the Crane/Mobile Plant discipline carrying out thorough examinations on a variety of mechanical assets including mobile elevating work platforms (scissor, boom, tower types), telescopic handlers, fork lift trucks, lifting accessories and attachments and patient hoists. These are examined to ensure compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER), Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) and the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations to ensure that the machines /items being examined conform to the aforementioned regulations and are safe to use.The role deems that I contact and organise visits to clients and travel to a variety of sites including factories, construction sites large and small, agricultural plants and care homes where I interface with the client, arrange and safely carry out the thorough examinations with compliance with company and customer risk assessments and report my findings to the client, company and HSE sometimes having to take items out of service for reasons of safety and explaining to clients as to the reasons why.The thorough examination of items and machines means that I must examine and test that the machine is in good working order, fit for purpose and that all safety systems encompassed within the machine are working properly in accordance with the aforementioned regulations.

Within this role I worked continental shifts as a shift engineer in a busy maintenance team of fast growing manufacturing business, responding to and prioritising factory plant breakdowns, control and execution of PPM/TPM and involvement in lean, continual improvement and safety/update projects. My daily task was the maintenance of the factory machinery including ovens, shredders, granulators, mills and industry specific machines and systems such as water treatment, hydro-entanglement, dye impregnation and mixing and core fabric coating machinery. In addition to this, tasks included fabrication of structural repairs and the maintenance, repair and replacement of all production equipment including motors, pumps, gearboxes and belt drives and hydraulic and pneumatic systems. The tasks around the factory often included working at height and to this end I received IPAF training and am an operator of boom and scissor type MEWPs and also locally trained in working in confined spaces. I was a business Safety leader (IOSH Managing Safety) and was required to carry out inductions and health and safety briefings, to scrutinise method statements, produce risk assessments and permits to work (general, working at height, confined spaces and hot work) to visiting contractors and staff. I continually put myself forward for involvement in business projects and while with the business was a member of the factory Kaizen team, attending daily meetings and involved in the correction or implementation of corrective actions and new processes while working with the factory project teams in implementing ongoing projects with regard to improving processes on the factory fiberisation plant and dye mixing/chemical preparation plants and safety projects throughout the factory.

Worked as a project engineer within a team tasked with updating and bringing into service a suite of fuel controlled aircraft engine components, liaising with customers, suppliers and prioritising project actions. I gained a working knowledge of FRACAS and generating the PFMEA for both the project assets and was involved in the set up and testing of them and the reporting of the data gained.

Duties in this role were the maintenance of aircraft, undercarriage, hydraulic and pneumatic assemblies and components which involved the overhaul of aircraft undercarriage assemblies, hydraulic rams, pumps, valves, accumulators and shock absorbers including the use of measuring equipment and test rigs for hydraulic and pneumatic testing.I was involved in the planning and organisation of the asset maintenance and the control of all assets which would include the tracking and control of component parts, their lifing and asset history.

A member of a small team involved with the set up of a nationwide service team for the mainland UK introducing and maintaining a range of turbines in the UK. The role involved travel throughout the UK to carry out the erection, commissioning and mechanical maintenance of wind turbines. Duties would include the planned maintenance of the turbines and breakdown cover including out of hours coverage of the UK mainland. I would often be involved, as part of my job, with the liaising with site owners and customers on technical details and prospective future projects.

I began my RAF career as an aircraft airframe mechanic progressing on to technician and further promotion to supervisor level. I have been trained in trained in the maintenance, repair and test of aircraft structures , mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic systems; wheels, tyres and retardation systems and cabin environmental control including cabin pressurisation and emergency systems. progressing to technician then supervisor status, maintaining a variety of aircraft throughout UK.It was during my time in the military that I learned planning, organisation and communication skills in order to communicate technical issues and the rectification and solving of problems technical, supply and organisational with peers, management and outside agencies/contractors.I became the supervisor of a busy aircraft handling section, organising the reception, handling, replenishment and departure of visiting aircraft to the station. I later moved to supervise a successful team designated to maintain the aircraft fleet undercarriage systems and assets and the timely delivery of them to squadrons within the UK and abroad. During this time I was involved in the inaugural implementation of lean processes within an RAF maintenance facility and the subsequent continual improvement events that followed.I was the Station Engineering Operations Controller during a period abroad which involved the control, coordination, repair, replenishment, delivery and dispatch of all base engineering assets during my tour. I have been employed throughout the mainland UK from Cornwall to the north of Scotland and several places in between as well as serving abroad.