Simon Powdrell Email & Phone Number

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

Experience in working most areas of logistics from Sameday Nationwide to Medical contract work. I have responsibility in ensuring Standard Operating Procedures are met articulately with customer satisfaction a priority for client retention. During the time with SP Courier Solutions I have covered New Business Enterprise, Job Development, Customer & Supplier liaison, Account Management with Budget and Financing.

Due to a Management re-structure I successfully applied for the role to manage Bindery & Despatch. With all the roles included in the previous position held as SPM due to covering of the Presshall Manager during holiday, sickness & weekend production. I also played a pivotal part along with the Commercial Department of introducing limited profitable Direct Mail into Acorn Web allowing better control of work within this area. I oversaw 3 Muller saddlestitching lines (2 x 251 & 1 x 300) as well… Show more Due to a Management re-structure I successfully applied for the role to manage Bindery & Despatch. With all the roles included in the previous position held as SPM due to covering of the Presshall Manager during holiday, sickness & weekend production. I also played a pivotal part along with the Commercial Department of introducing limited profitable Direct Mail into Acorn Web allowing better control of work within this area. I oversaw 3 Muller saddlestitching lines (2 x 251 & 1 x 300) as well as a 12 station Corona Binder. Other areas of responsibility included the Warehouse with the control of web/sheetfed paper, inserts & work in progress ensuring all agreed timeframes/deliveries were met with minimal disruption to the business. Show less

Working initially as a four man management team reporting to the Operations manager then later directly to the GM. Initially responsible for Production through Press & Bindery departments before Pre-Press, Warehouse & Maintenance were added responsibilities to the role. Within the job role responsibilities included: ISO (initially 9001 Management then 14001 Environmental & 18001 Health & Safety), Stock management, Recruitment & staffing requirements, Motivational analysis, Report writing… Show more Working initially as a four man management team reporting to the Operations manager then later directly to the GM. Initially responsible for Production through Press & Bindery departments before Pre-Press, Warehouse & Maintenance were added responsibilities to the role. Within the job role responsibilities included: ISO (initially 9001 Management then 14001 Environmental & 18001 Health & Safety), Stock management, Recruitment & staffing requirements, Motivational analysis, Report writing, Budgets & forecasts, HR responsibilities, Policies & Procedures, Production planning, Continuous Improvement, Customer liaison as well as Supplier liaison too, upgrading technologies, part of the Health & Safety team, Lean Manufacturing 5C. I also championed the introduction of GMG Colour Management Software for the MAN presses whilst we used Kodak Prinergy Software. Show less

Returned back to Acorn Web on successful completion of the change of format of Auto Trader to Supervise a shift as per previous same position held in 1995. During this period the business ran for a time without a department Manager so supplier liaison, stock control, costing justification & data input became extra duties as well as the delegation/hands on work to supply two heatset MAN Presses as well as the Heidelberg Sheetfed Press. Working on 'time sensitive' periodicals representing a large… Show more Returned back to Acorn Web on successful completion of the change of format of Auto Trader to Supervise a shift as per previous same position held in 1995. During this period the business ran for a time without a department Manager so supplier liaison, stock control, costing justification & data input became extra duties as well as the delegation/hands on work to supply two heatset MAN Presses as well as the Heidelberg Sheetfed Press. Working on 'time sensitive' periodicals representing a large percentage of the work within the business. Show less

Worked as part of a dynamic team that transformed Auto Trader (Yorkshire) from it's original 'paste/artwork' format to a digital format. Working with 2 x Scitex 800V Dolev film outputters as well as Commercial work too with digital proofing with Scitex Iris Realist. Other duties included operational use of a Scitex 342L flatbed scanner as well as stock control, report writing to the MD and man management.

Started as a planner/platemaker but soon advanced into a Shift Supervisor role responsible for the delegation of work as well as a hands on approach too. QC the work that was supplying one heatset Rotoman press, one Heidleberg Sheetfed Press as well as a Solna coldset press.

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