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England, United Kingdom

As a member of the AEM senior management team, responsible for leading the Product Development group through rapid growth and bringing the first products to series production. Transitioning the business from university start-up to Tier 1 supplier. Supported business activities across investment, grant funding, JV management and board reporting.Responsible for NPD engineering functions across design, simulation, development, test & validation and programme management. Responsible for co-ordinating purchasing, supply chain, quality, and advanced manufacturing engineering. Driving fundamental organisation restructure and significant growth in engineering capability. Recruited at levels from technicians through to Chief Engineers and project leaders. Completed a programme to upgrade simulation tools sets and test facilities. Lead technical and commercial customer interfaces with global OEMs and smaller volume customers for strategy, project planning, launch and delivery. Supporting and driving technology innovation roadmaps and product strategy and planning with Product responsibility across Electric Motors, Transmissions, Power Electronics and Vehicle Integration.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Initial role at AEM to lead and develop the project management function to achieve product delivery commitments to customers and other stake holders.Lead both project managers and projects directly and overhauling customer interface practices. Provide structure and planning to product development projects coordinating across all business functions.Lead multiple concurrent collaborative grant funded projects including fundamental re-scoping to achieve stakeholder objectives.Provide technical engineering support for product development across product lines.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Lead the projects department, including PMs, commercial engineers, purchasing and SQA. Oversight on a portfolio of typically 100 live projects.Responsible for all multidisciplinary projects, with values up to £10M’s through complete life cycle from project creation and planning, sales, contracts and through project delivery. Using consultative sales techniques to find genuine customer solutions and building strong customer relationships across various regions including Europe, China and Middle East.Provide support and direction to project managers across multiple concurrent product development projects. Responsible for Product Development Processes to support complex and innovative products.Part of the MPT UK senior management group including business objectives and corporate responsibilitiesOversaw many projects across ICE, hybrid and BEV, vehicle applications, from fundamental R&D to volume series production globally.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Technical and commercial responsibility for all aspects of project delivery (Cost, Quality & Timing), reporting internally to senior management and externally to global OEMs.Lead problem solving activities using both formal and informal processesLead wide range of sales activities, projects from £30k to £50M, inc T&Cs and NDAsDepartmental support including recruitment of PMs & SQA, processes including PDP, ISO9001 auditsLead projects for high performance powertrains from concept level feasibility studies to low volume series production and PPAP.Lead multifunctional technical teams including analysts, design, development and test, purchasing and supplier management.

Northampton

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Mechanical Engineering

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