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Swavesey, England, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Production Director, responsible for:-• All planning activities for production in UK and joint ventures in India• All warehouse and logistics functionsMember of the senior management team. Responsible for bought in products and components from our joint ventures in India and other locations. Planning of production on site, and management of stock and warehouse activities.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Managing Director, responsible for:-• All operational activities on site• Health & Safety• Production, inc. CNC machine shop & Assembly areas• Quality• Planning, Purchasing, Stores & Logistics • Facilities MaintenanceMember of the senior management team. Responsible for all operational activities on site, controlling resources whilst ensuring quality, cost & delivery targets are met. Creating and following through with action plans as required. Managing all operational budgets and projects as required.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Managing Director, responsible for:-• All operational activities on site• Health & Safety• Production• Quality• Logistics • Project engineering and maintenanceResponsible for operational elements of P+L, controlling costs and manning levels, reporting results and variances at weekly and monthly board meetings.

Wellingborough

Reporting to the Managing Director, responsible for:-• Production and assembly activities on two sites working 5 days 3 shifts.• Quality• Purchasing & Planning • Production Engineering • Logistics• MaintenanceResponsible for operational elements of P+L, Budget construction, controlling manning levels, material usage and machining costs.

Daventry Uk

Reporting to the European Director, responsible for:-• All activities on the Daventry site• Profit & Loss for Daventry site• Health & Safety• Production• Quality• Human Resources• Packaging & Logistics • MaintenanceResponsible for all elements of Site P+L. Weekly forecasting of expected P+L in collaboration with Sales Director to US head office. Explaining all variances on costs and putting in place actions to recover where necessary.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Manufacturing Director, responsible for:-• All production activities on site, moulding, painting and assembly covering 3 shift operation• Cost and budget control• All site maintenance activities • Tool room • Production Engineering • Staff management of 225 employees • Member of the board of managersResponsible at board level for operational elements of P+L.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, responsible for: -• Compliance with regulatory requirements (H&S, Environment).• Initiating and management of change and improvement programmes.• All aspects of Quality Management.Main achievements:• Implemented ISO9000/2000 quality management system.• Cost effective introduction of IPPC environment legislation.• Productivity increased by 15% through various process improvement projects.• Introduction of the BRC/IoP technical standard for food packaging.Responsible at board level for operational elements of P+L.

Halifax, United Kingdom

Setting up production unit from a green field site, then responsible to the European Business Unit Director (based in Germany) for all aspects of a high volume 24 x 7 operation producing air intake filters and assemblies.Responsibilities included:• Planning, Purchasing, Production, Cost and Budget control.• Health & Safety, Quality & Engineering.• Staff management of 85 employees.Responsible at board level for operational elements of P+L.

Bradford, United Kingdom

Graduated from Shift Manager to being responsible for the development and control of a ‘mini–company’ within the overall Birkbys structure. Responsibilities included:• Management of all resources (material, plant, staff)• Productivity

Bradford, United Kingdom

Reporting directly to the Engineering Director and responsible for new designs, material specification and introduction into production of new products.

Halifax, United Kingdom

Technical author, developing and testing new machines and software.

Certificate In Management, Operations Management

Managing Safely Cetificate

Bachelor Of Engineering - Beng (Hons), Computer Aided Engineering