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Essex, England, United Kingdom

Cowes, England, United Kingdom

Promotion to include accountability for multiple direct reports within project department, added financial responsibility with project debt focus and additional department reporting.

Cowes, England, United Kingdom

Project Manager accountable for lifecycle of global bespoke monitoring systems and services across renewables and O&G market. Operational B2B project management from purchase order received through to despatch and warranty care. Regulation and control of project time, cost, quality & scope, applying Prince2 framework and Lean principles. Highlights include:∞ Accountable for 20+ simultaneous open orders of £5m+ revenue with minimal margin erosion.∞ Critical task triage, prioritising and careful planning for limited specialist resource∞ Wide range of project complexities and regulatory requirements ∞ Project timelines varied between 3 - 24 months∞ Project structure varying from works breakdown structure or product breakdown structure, and often including items such as: - Multiple 3rd-party services - Regulatory witnessing - Complex sub-contracted activity - Complex range of component lead times on bespoke components - Comprehensive project documentation submissions - Agreed ITP procedures

Lancing, England, United Kingdom

Acquired factory maintenance department alongside manufacturing engineering team in Q4 2020. Leading, motivating and developing of a team of maintenance engineers with intent to deliver cost-effective total productive maintenance (TPM) to mechanical, electrical and infrastructure assets so that the company can meet its commitments to its customers.∞ Purchase of 'company-first' computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) ∞ Automated maintenance activity to £5M+ of operational assets reducing non-value add activity∞ Reactive maintenance reduced from 40% to 25% through introduction of TPM∞ Reduced lead time to repair through review of £10k's maintenance inventory and critical spare parts ∞ Schedule management, cost management and approval of all 3rd party contractors ∞ Designing implementing and supporting 'department-first' maintenance team KPI’s ∞ Leading maintenance focussed improvement projects for the short and long-term delivery of operational asset availability, facility developments and operational support.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Manufacturing engineering manager leading a cross-functional team to deliver integration of new product into manufacture & Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement projects. ∞ Creating and implementing a complete catalogue of 45+ key standard operating procedures (SOPs) ∞ Delivering analysis of over 1200 ERP records to remove £1M+ in BOM cost variance∞ Leading a high-functioning team through varying company changes∞ Conceiving meaningful objectives and KPI's through Hoshin-Kanri (objective-cascading)∞ Delivering £100k's of cost reductions through improvements made to the operation∞ Producing CAPEX requests and business cases, including requirement specifications where necessary∞ Implementing 2021 upgrade to CAD system to modernize the management and access to CAD data ∞ Introducing robust process for product & manufacturing change control through ECR>ECN pipeline.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Production manager for a staff of 12 with revenue at £3m+ on appointment, growing to £5m on exit. Bespoke works requiring careful attention with varying novelty, complexity and subcontracted works.∞ Managing production team reporting directly to company director∞ Managing sub-contractors, orders placed and project progress & building on relationships∞ Enhancing the existing 2-week production schedule horizon to 6 weeks + in first 6 months in post∞ Implemented company first cloud-based, shared schedule to improve synergy of departments∞ Accountable for technical production reviews alongside production team ∞ Representing the company at key client meetings, both on-site and pre-project∞ Pre-award project surveys with consideration of balancing production efficiency & client requirements

Chelmsford Uk

∞ Design For Manufacture gate reviews on multi-level products∞ Technical drawing review with lean manufacture intent∞ Design process innovation ∞ Giben Gplan / woodlab resource optimization management ∞ Alphacam ultimate router 2019 - Alphacam tailored training course & Automated manufacture∞ Machinery management: CNC Giben beamsaw, CNC Busellato 3-Axis, Homag CNC edgebander ∞ Excel database management and innovation inc. custom Macros∞ Materials and special procurement

Eagan, Mn

RD&I intern:∞ CAD CAM procedures on Pro-engineer and Solidworks (Parts, Assemblies, Drawings & FEA)∞ Product cycle durability and component failure testing, long and short term∞ Quality led New Product Ideation and development to troubleshoot manufacture and user issues∞ Adobe suite, Info-graphics, semiotic labelling design, implementation∞ Rapid-Prototyping, sketch modelling and high quality prototype manufacture∞ SAP maintenance and actions including; Part creation, distribution, Multiple ECO management, BOM creation, drawing & documentation management and general maintenance

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Product Design

Activities and Societies: B.U.D.A - Brighton University Design Association Zest - In-house student design agency- A 4 year Bachelor.

A Level X 3

Intensive 2 year study of three courses: - Fine Art - A - Product Design - B - Photography - A+

Gcse X 10

Activities and Societies: - Young chamber of commerce campaign - Treasurer - Travelsafe: isle of wight safe youth travel campaign - Final.