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36 years in car industry is enough

Crewe, United Kingdom

Supporting the development of effective long-term Logistics Strategies encompassing both organisational and process development to enable delivery of the Manufacturing Strategy. The position ensures the technical development of the most efficient, effective and flexible supply chain solutions to deliver production requirements in support of sales demand through the definition and project management of new developments to deliver functional objective and robust and sustainable processes. This position provides technical consultancy to Manufacturing and other interfacing functions / customers in the conceptual theory and practical application of extended supply chain processes and techniques.

United Kingdom

Responsibility for both Production and Material Planning together with inventory management and including Internal Logistics within a JIT environment. Key features of the role are KPI’s on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to ensure the company meet the demands of our Customers. Plant is world leader in designing and manufacturing air / oil / fuel and engine coolant modules for the construction / agricultural and static power generation systems.

Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

Management responsibility for European finished vehicles from plant to dealer for OPEL Vauxhall vehicles in Europe. In conjunction with the Sales Organisations and also source plants in South Korea, North America and including European plants to ensure timely delivery of finished vehicles to customers across Europe. This also includes the timely export of GM vehicles to various non-EU countries. Responsible for vehicle deliveries to support launches within Europe against tight time schedules and capacity demands,

Uzbekistan

Responsible for two vehicle assembly plants for material supply / storage / order fulfilment / Toyota production systems (GMGMS) and internal /external logistics. Managed two vehicle launches. Responsible for 729 employees in SC department supporting vehicle build of 220,000 / year. The JV produced five models on three production lines and two models in a SKD operation.

Ellesmere Port

Management responsibility for all vehicle compound activities in all Opel / Vauxhall & SAAB European plants.

Responsible for all vehicle compound activities at UK plant. •

Responsible for GMGMS (Toyota Production system) within Supply Chain department to train, organise, manage and Audit processes and ensure Materials department is compliant with GMGMS.

Shift production Manager for hourly paid and staff for trim build operations in General Assembly for two models on one production line

Divisional Manager for hourly paid and staff for material supply with (269 hourly and 28 staff.) Role includes managing the receipt of material to store, inventory control, and supply material to production line.

Luton, United Kingdom

Responsible for lean activities, External Logistics, container planning engineers and management of external Supply in line Sequence (SILS) supplier.

GME (General Motors Europe) developmental role to train High potential employees on lean material processes (TPS) under Lead advisors from Toyota in Europe.

Luton, United Kingdom

Manufacturing manager for assembly operations in Car Final and rectification operations. Duties included labour allocation of both direct and rectification hourly and staff. Included direct discussions with senior Union representatives.

Luton, United Kingdom

Responsible for training of hourly team leaders in Toyota Production systems. Developed small training team to produce training manual and organise training of hourly employees. •First introduction of Toyota Production Systems into Vauxhall plants

Luton, United Kingdom

Responsible for supervising hourly paid team members in a number of production zones within assembly and rectification areas.•Responsible for pilot responsibilities for the introduction of cavalier Diesel model (1.7d).

Bachelor'S Degree, Production Engineering

National Certificate, Mechanical Engineering