Conduct home and business improvements which includes Painting and Decorating, General Plumbing, general electrical installation, general building work, tiling and kitchen & bathroom fitting.

• Conduct daily Huddle Team meetings to plan and allocate actions and check progress and completion.• Audit Cell leaders visual display board. Check progress of work using Daily Cell Schedules linked to LOB order book. And plan activities with cell leader if required.• Audit cell metrics when entered into data collection. Challenge discrepancies/misses with cell leader.• Present and justify department performance Labour capacity, Overtime, diversions, barriers and Improvement plans to senior management on weekly basis• Mentor and coach 2 cell leaders to lead their teams effectively and develop their management skills• Set up a safety, quality, costs and delivery measure across the shop floor to drive continuous improvement• Collect and analyse data using Trend, Pie and Pareto analysis• Employ Lean Manufacturing techniques. Utilising systems such as 2-Bin, Kan Ban, Kaizan and 6S• Required to manage, lead and empower my team to achieve our day-to-day targets. Conducting Employee PDR’s and disciplinary proceedings if and when required.• Ensuring safety precautions are followed and maintained including wearing of PPE.• Employing numerous management techniques such as self-development, coaching, performance management, team leadership, conflict resolution and mentoring. • Led Dorsal arrears reduction project that ran for 6 months and achieved a70 parts arrears to LOB, down to zero. Which improved customer confidence, allowing for continued and future business.

• Report progress of key sales to senior management and output team. • Plan activities and progress work using manufacturing production schedule and order book.• Conduct Integrated Management Team meetings to plan and allocate actions and check progress and completion.• Plan yearly departmental budget and report forecast against actual on quarterly basis.• Present and justify department performance (Inefficiencies: Overtime, diversions, Margins and budget spend) to senior management on monthly basis• Mentor and coach 4 Team leaders to lead their teams effectively and develop their management skills• Set up a quality, costs and delivery measure across the shop floor to drive continuous improvement• Collect and analyse data using Trend, Pie and Pareto analysis• Employ Lean Manufacturing techniques. Utilising systems such as 2-Bin, Kan Ban, Kaizan and 5S• I am required to manage, lead and empower my team to achieve our day-to-day targets. Conducting Employee PDR’s and disciplinary proceedings if and when required.• Deputise for the Manufacturing Manager• Ensuring E.S.D precautions are followed and maintained.• Employing numerous management techniques such as self-development, coaching, performance management, team leadership, conflict resolution and mentoring.• Led build time reduction project that ran for 12months and achieved a 5 hour reduction per unit saving the company $180000.

• Set up World class production shop floor whilst in pre-production, recruiting all staff members in line with recruitment schedule. Writing processes. Through to full steady state production. • Responsible for 52 assemblers and 6 Cell leaders and 7 Technicians. Reporting to myself.• Employ Lean Manufacturing techniques. Utilising systems such as 2-Bin, Kan Ban, Kaizan, 5S & VBSS.• Managing day to day running of operations department to manufacture VHF radios for the British Army. Reporting to the manufacturing manager.• Planning daily, weekly and monthly targets referring to the master production schedule as set by our customer. Organising people and resources in cells to cover the above targets.• Managing Cell Leaders to achieve not only their own goals and targets but also those of their subordinates.• Maintain high Quality standards by using ISO14001 process flows to control monitor and improve processes and procedures. • The department is managed using Key Process indicators such as daily going rates, yield analysis, Factory cycle times and Daily W.I.P counts. • I am required to supervise, lead and empower my team to achieve our day-to-day targets. Conducting Employee Performance reviews and disciplinary proceedings if and when required.• Ensuring Health & Safety regulations are enforced by ensuring risk assessment is carried out when necessary and following up any actions. • Ensuring E.S.D precautions are followed and maintained.• Employing numerous management techniques such as self-development, coaching, performance management, team leadership, conflict resolution and mentoring. • Liaising with Production Planning and control, Test Support, Quality Assurance, Human resources and Payroll.• Reconciling labour hours and overtime for presentation to Finance and Payroll.• Expert user and point of contact for shop floor data capture system.• VBSS Green Belt.• Deputize for the Manufacturing Manager.

• Managing the day to day running of the Service Centre. Reporting to the Service Centre manager.• Responsible for 60 Engineers, Technicians and Re-workers reporting to myself.• The department is managed using Key Process indicators such as Turn around time, delivery performance, warranty and Daily W.I.P counts. • Ensuring Nokia’s high Quality standards are maintained by using ISO9000 process flows to control, monitor and improve processes and procedures. • I am required to supervise, lead and empower my team to achieve our day-to-day targets.• Ensuring Health & Safety regulations are enforced by risk assessing when necessary and following up any actions. • Ensuring E.S.D precautions are followed and maintained. • Employing numerous management techniques such as self-development, coaching, performance management, team leadership, conflict resolution and mentoring. • I have led and participated in numerous projects some of which includes H&S manual for the plant, TL9000 implementation, 2-Bin and Kan Ban implementation.• Led and participated in technology transfer projects in this role and as an engineer, on site and abroad in Finland, Singapore and the U.S.A.• Present department metrics to Site management team and all site personnel.• Deputise for the Service Centre manager.• Preparing department for 5S-system implementation

Diagnosing and repairing down to component level using several techniques such as circuit analysis, split-half technique and probing circuits. On several types of BTS sub-units associated with GSM 900, GSM1800 & GSM1900 mobile phone base-stations, testing, soldering and repairing to ISO 9001 quality standards. The sub-units include transmitters, receivers, transceivers, network cards, line amplifiers, transmission cards, RF test equipment and multi-couplers. Utilising a wide range of test equipment, which includes spectrum analysers, network analysers, DVM’s, oscilloscopes, power meters and frequency counters, along with ATE equipment provided, for specific functions. The department is managed by key process indicators such as Turn around times, delivery performance and warranty. Each engineer is set specific targets every day, whilst maintaining the above high quality standards and being mindful of any cost saving measures that can be put in place.

My rank of Junior Technician in the Royal Air Force meant I was employed in several areas of the UK. Namely RAF Staxton Wold, N.Yorkshire and RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire and later on in my career on detachments abroad in France, Germany, Spain, Oman, Bahrain and Nepal. I completed my 9-year engagement with the Royal Air Force, details of employment follow:Responsible for servicing, faultfinding and repair to component level. Using a wide variety of test equipment. Primarily on Siemens Tactical Watchman Radar but also communications work with various UHF,VHF, HF and satellite systems. My 1st post at RAF Staxton Wold, Oct 1990 - Oct 1993, involved shift-work maintaining communication equipment as mentioned above. My 2nd post at RAF Brize Norton, Oct 1993 - Dec 1997, meant I was part of a 5-man team in which we were tasked to install, power up and commission to CAA standards, a full mobile radar system anywhere in the world. Also maintaining the radar using the above techniques. This tactical post required a lot of travel on detachment to the countries mentioned earlier.