Specialists in Children's soft play - please visit our flagship venue 'Jungle at the Junction' in the historic Black Dyke Mills, also incorporating 'Jungle Jemz' unique gifts & homeware

Logistics Section Leader, Managing warehousing & distribution for Gower Furniture Ltd.Units 6 & 7 - additional responsibility for overseeing off-site warehousing & 3 packing linesResponsible for OTIF, maintaining both inventory & business systemsRecruitment, management, motivation, training & development of continuous improvement in line with business objectivesManagement & use of appropriate KPI's to ensure all business objectives are met in line with both financial budgets & efficiency measures

Leading teams of technicians and senior technicians on a continental shift patternManage every aspect of day to day productionCoordinate resources such as maintenance, testers, day support to ensure production targets are metUse Lean manufacturing techniques to identify and progress opportunities for continuous improvementSAP Coordinator 2010 - 2012Key member of project team for the design and implementation of SAP business software systemDesigned a set of presentations and training plan, implemented and managed multi user training prior to live role out throughout the factoryProvided 24hr support during six week implementation stageProblem solving, debugging software issues across all manufacturing departmentsUpdating and maintaining SAP reportsSenior Technician 2005 - 2010Deputising for Shift Manager running a 7 day continental shift team, Active Factory, Scada monitoring, FLT trainedElectra QA Tester 2000 - 2005Used variety of lab equipment (Thermal imaging products, Apple Mac PC, Processors, Densitometers etc.) to analyse for product faults, interpret and pass/hold/fail product. Trained on use of guillotines, burr checks, quality audits, image and product testing, recording and interpreting data. Effluent testing to ensure waste water quality conformed to Yorkshire Water specifications.Access Database Designer 1999 - 2000Commissioned to design a Coil Line Database in Access to record and control all aspects of production data as a replacement to Lotus notes. Project expanded to include QA, Maintenance, Auditing, Training, Electra, Quality/Safety Incidents and 'Good Ideas'.