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Stoke-On-Trent, England, United Kingdom

Tamworth, England, United Kingdom

Leadership responsibility for Health, Safety & Environmental, Production, Lean Manufacturing, Planning & Scheduling, Sourcing & Purchasing, Maintenance, Logistics & Facilities.

Stone, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for all Product Design activities including technical drawing, tooling through to CNC. Responsibility for all production activities executed including Cabinet Manufacture, Seating Manufacture, Table-Top Manufacture, Upholstery, Furniture Spraying, Furniture Assembly through to Logistics and final site install. In Addition, responsibility for Health, Safety & Environmental, Purchasing & Stock Control and Site Maintenance, • Measured through key KPI’s including, OTIF, Productivity• Key achievements include, creation and implementation of a new pay related skills matrix with new associated job descriptions and development plans. Full streamlining and re-organisation of the full factory organisation to optimise capacity, productivity and product flow whilst reducing direct costs of production.

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for all project activities executed through the Stafford & Rugby factories including daily management of project managers, project planners, BOM engineers and bid managers.• Responsible for key processes including initial bid submission, order acceptance, project launch, project execution, project planning, customer bid creation, BOM execution, resource management, lean management, financial and delivery status reviews, project delivery, close-out and lessons learned.• Measured through key KPI’s including, bid turn-around time, bid hit rate, project on-time-delivery, planning accuracy, BOM turn-around time, lean roadmap score, project margin, cost of poor quality and accident frequency ratio and 5S score.• Key achievements include: Re-write of all job descriptions, key processes and procedures to optimise the efficiency of the Order Management departments and all projects executed. Harmonisation of JD’s and processes across the Stafford & Rugby sites. Implementation of new KPI’s to monitor and drive functional performance harmonised across both UK factories.

Stafford, United Kingdom

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for all project activities executed through the Stafford factory including daily management of project managers, project planners, BOM engineers and bid managers.• Responsible for key processes including initial bid submission, order acceptance, project launch, project execution, project planning, customer bid creation, BOM execution, resource management, lean management, financial and delivery status reviews, project delivery, close-out and lessons learned.• Measured through key KPI’s including, bid turn-around time, bid hit rate, project on-time-delivery, planning accuracy, lean roadmap score, project margin, cost of poor quality, accident frequency ratio and 5S score. • Key achievements include: Creation of new KPI’s to drive project management, planning and bid performance. Reduction of bid turn-around times and increase of on-time delivery %. Introduction of new technologies into the project portfolio using PFMEA process. Implementation of new SAP ERP solution.

Stafford, United Kingdom

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for all generator rotor and generator rotor coil manufacturing activities executed through the Stafford factory including daily management of production supervisors, production controllers, quality control technicians and admin support staff.• Responsible for the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) department.• Responsible for key processes including putting to work process, resource allocation, skills gap & training plan management, lean management, quality control, EHS & quality audits, EHS & quality investigations, manufacturing financial and delivery status reviews, project delivery, close-out and lessons learned.• Measured through key KPI’s including: labour effectiveness, departmental under/over recovery, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), 5S score, project on-time-delivery, departmental project margin, no. of non-conformances, cost of poor quality and accident frequency ratio.• Key achievements include: Introduction of up-to-date activity risk assessments, method statements, COSSH risk assessments, PUWER risk assessments and auditing process. Implementation of new skills and training management system for generator rotor manufacture, Introduction of new technologies into the project portfolio using PFMEA process. Implementation of new lean management processes such as 5S, snap shot analyses, shop floor visual management, Kaisan events.

Stafford, United Kingdom

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for all generator rotor coils manufacturing activities executed through the Stafford factory including daily management of production supervisors, production controllers, quality control technicians and admin support staff.• Responsible for all business systems within the Stafford factory.• Responsible for key processes including putting to work process, resource allocation, skills gap & training plan management, quality control, EHS & quality audits, EHS & quality investigations, manufacturing financial and delivery status reviews, project delivery, close-out and lessons learned.• Measured through key KPI’s including: labour effectiveness, departmental under/over recovery, project on-time-delivery, departmental project margin, no. of non-conformances, cost of poor quality and accident frequency ratio.• Key achievements include: Implementation of new skills and training management system for generator rotor coil manufacture linked to pay scale. Implementation of new WEB based shop floor time booking system. Worked as UK manufacturing lead on the SAP project working in Switzerland every other week for six months between June 2007 and January 2008.

Stafford, United Kingdom

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for all financial and management accounting activities within the Stafford factory including daily management of accounts assistant.• Responsible for all business systems within the Stafford factory.• Responsible for key processes including management accounts pack production, overhead expenditure reporting and review, project financial reporting and review, shop floor time booking, cost of poor quality reporting, close-out and lessons learned reporting, project S-curve production, labour utilisation reporting and annual budget process.• Measured through key KPI’s including: on-time reporting %, overhead expenditure performance, project financial performance and cost of poor quality performance.• Key achievements include: Implementation of new management accounts reporting procedures and process maps, creation of finance function skills & training matrix, effective training of assistant accountant and delegation of key processes, implementation of a weekly project financial reporting and review process.

Stafford, United Kingdom

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for project financial and management accounting activities within the Stafford factory.• Responsible for key processes including, overhead expenditure reporting and review, project financial reporting and review, fx deal placement, customer progress payment and final invoicing process, shop floor time booking, cost of poor quality reporting, labour utilisation reporting and annual budget process.• Measured through key KPI’s including: on-time reporting %, overhead expenditure performance, project financial performance and cost of poor quality performance.• Key achievements include: Maintained 100% on time reporting, training of all departmental mangers in monthly reporting requirements, training of all departmental managers in budget submission requirements, implementation of new cost of poor quality reporting process.

Stafford, United Kingdom

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for various management accounting activities within the Stafford factory.• Responsible for key processes including, overhead expenditure reporting and review, Stafford site services accounts, shop floor time booking, labour utilisation reporting and annual budget process.• Measured through key KPI’s including: on-time reporting %, overhead expenditure performance, site cost recovery.• Key achievements include: Maintained >95% on time reporting, implementation of new workshop capacity budgeting process, streamlining of site services cost recovery processes

Stafford, United Kingdom

• Responsible for various management accounting activities within the Stafford factory reporting to the Management Accountant.• Responsible for key processes including, overhead expenditure reporting and review, Stafford site services accounts reconciliation, balance sheet account reconciliations, supporting with annual budget process, shop floor time booking, labour utilisation reporting and annual budget process.• Measured through key KPI’s including: on-time reporting %, overhead expenditure performance, reconciled account %• Key achievements include: Maintained >95% on time reporting, increased account reconciliations to 100% of all accounts monthly, finance representative for PC based shop floor time booking system.

Chartered Institute Of Management Accountants (Cima)

Finalist

Business Studies

BTEC National Diploma in Business Studies

Education record

Activities and Societies: Tennis, Table Tennis, Walking and supporting my kids in the sport of Canoe Slalom. 7 O levels including Maths &.