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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Applied Industrial Research, Development & Innovation

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Leading the SME Innovation Support Team at the Advanced Forming Research Centre, a part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Focussed on the practical implementation of innovation projects and support mechanisms for SMEs in the UK manufacturing industry.

Kilmarnock, Scotland, United Kingdom

Built team to take on the responsibilities for the practical monitoring of manufacturing processes and implementation of continuous improvement solutions, driven by resolution of customer complaints and opportunities identified through in-house CI activities.Establishing stable base-line for operating and monitoring of manufacturing processes.Introduced balanced scheduling concepts onto the shop floor, including visual systems (e.g. T-card scheduling boards, Kanban).Development of a Service Level Agreement and Accepted Visual Quality Level, and negotiated agreement with internal customers in Europe, China and the Americas.Focus on the reduction of outstanding unresolved customer complaints in high volume component manufacturing areas.Restructure of quality and process engineering functions. Introducing of shop floor problem solving resources and training, leading to significant increase in autonomous problem solving by shop floor personnel.

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

Providing direct support to the Sales organisation in front of the Customer, acting as single point of technical contact with the Customer. Feeding back from the market place the demands, needs and trends of the automotive sector to the R&D groups. Primary in-person support to European customer base, and supporting North and South American activities as required.

Kilmarnock, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsible for management of Laboratories providing services to R&D, Materials & Component Manufacturing facilities, and European Applications Engineering function (performance & failure analysis).Knowledge management of all technical information produced via the Metallurgical & Analytical Services activities; liaison between R&D, Manufacturing Facilities and Applications Engineering Function; providing technical support in person for issues requiring interaction with the Customer.Technical support for materials manufacture troubleshooting and materials development projects.

Kilmarnock, Scotland, United Kingdom

Specialising in performance and failure analysis of internal combustion engine components. Metallurgical analysis using optical and electron microscopy, mechanical testing of materials and chemical analysis of materials and fluids.

Kilmarnock, Scotland, United Kingdom

Specialising in the continuous casting of non-ferrous alloys and subsequent rolling and heat treatment operations. Responsible for various development projects including heating systems for hot metal transfer, continuous quenching, process commissioning and validation.