Simon Grant Email & Phone Number

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

Warrington UK

North West England

A management consultancy based in the north west of England who specialise in helping businesses deliver real improvements, whether it's a one-off, short-term projects or a long term programmes of organisational change, they aim to improve working practices and deliver lowest cost solutions within client organisations by identifying, prioritising and.

• Worked as a consultant reporting to the Head of Design and Asset Integration in United Utilities. Responsible for assuring UU that the Engineering Directorate is working in line with current working practices and.
• Developing Engineering Assurance Performance Indicators; Safety, Effectiveness and Delivery
• Re-designing the Engineering Performance Report, enabling the Engineering Directorate to have visibility of their Performance; Cost, Time and Quality
• Embedding a Continuous Improvement Culture through the use of Quality Circles / Kazien events enabling the Engineering Directorate to improve the services they provide

• Reporting to the MD of Jarvis Rail & Fastline Plant; assisting in the strategic development of both businesses.
• Project management of initiatives to deliver the business strategy; managing initiatives through a structured team method from the assumption to delivery/handover, informing and engaging the management teams, acting as.
• Project management of the business behavioural change programme; working with senior management understanding the need for change and delivering presentations to all employees.
• Standardised management reporting ensuring divisional performance could be challenged; best practice shared and areas of weakness highlighted, engaged support services to ensure key processes were managed in line with.

• Reported to the MD of operational improvements; assisted the MD’s of the various divisions in the role of Lean – Six Sigma Consultant:
• Designed and delivered lean-six sigma training courses, mentored attendees and reviewed projects for correct use of tools, techniques and methodologies.
• Managed the portfolio of improvement projects across the divisions, deployed resource and managed conflict in line with operational requirements, conducted project appraisals with sponsors to justify investment.
• Improved processes across the group in both operational and transactional functions, challenged conventional wisdom, transferred best practices, and identified synergies throughout the divisions at every opportunity to.

• Reported to the group quality manager, responsible for six depots:
• Achieved quality objectives by influencing, motivating and integrating effectively with local production teams.
• Implemented best practice across depots, wrote quality plans, procedures and work instructions for a multi-site/multi-disciplined business in line with ISO 9001 & customer requirements. Managed the audit process.

• Alstom design, produce and install all infrastructure for the rail network to upgrade safety and performance of existing networks, or as part of new turnkey solutions, the most complete range of systems, equipment and.
• Ensured the product was built in line specifications; facilitated meetings between production, design and engineering to ensure problems were understood and incorporated solutions into the quality management system
• Implemented quality principal; designed and installed key performance indicators, to ensure accurate data was collected and available to allow structured problem solving to be undertaken.

• Managed product quality issues
• Inspection, configuration management, issuing certificates of conformance, auditing – product / person / process, writing procedures / local work instructions, route cause analysis, etc…

Worked on a variety of products and assemblies in production, liaised with engineers and designers developing new products, transferred products from Europe into the UK and carried out modification programs internationally: Fitting mechanical/electrical components, wiring electrical looms/panels/control cases, in line with quality standards and engineering.