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England, United Kingdom

Barrow-in-Furness, England, United Kingdom

Moved to the SSNR project to help set up the Manufacturing Engineering team on a project in the early phase of CADMID (LCM phase 2a working towards phase 3.All very exciting to be at the start of something huge.Great team, great product, great place to work and live. Feeling optimistic

Barrow In Furness

Developing the Manufacturing Process Planning function, and integrating it into the existing business organisation. This is a challenge in a large, complex descrete manufacturing organisation with an established culture and organisational structure.Much of the "standard" manufacturing engineering methodology needs adaptation from the out of the box LEAN.

Ampthill Near Bedford

Summary:Setting up a production line in a new facility for the site. Overseeing a team of manufacturing engineers working on the WARRIOR capability sustainment Programme. The production line includes fabrication, machining, paint and assembly, and is split across two locations and companies. Challenges include setting up the production line concurrently.

Barrow In Furness

After a managment re-organisation which joined operations with procurement to create the supply chain directorate I became the supply chain strategy manager. With responsibilities for creating a stratgy and road map to adapt our current organisation and process to fit a future requirement to work more closely with in-country organisations particularly.

Barrow In Furness

Operations strategy included a plan to adapt the operations "foot print" and core competencies to match the future requirements of the business. The challenge was to "right size" the business to retain core skills, and be able to support contracts which had significant offset obligtions. Our products are complex, and there is often a significnt gap.

Barrow In Furness

Started as the Manufacturing Engineering Manager and completed several major production mobilisation projects with a team of manufacturing engineers composed of a core team of 12, augmented by sub-contractors up to a peak strength of 30. Manufacturing processes include fabrication (armor steel and titanium), machining (including gun barrel manufacture).

Ulverston

Started as a design engineer and was involved in the design, development, testing and delivery of sub-sea electrical connectors for applications in the off-shore oil industry. My particular expertise was connectors located in the well head and used to connect various gauges through the value block to back to the off-shore platform.The last 2 years at.