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Canterbury, New Zealand

Christchurch, New Zealand

Customlight Engineering supports striving for a reduced carbon footprint, achieving high levels of efficiency, & supplying the best quality product possible. As a Lighting Manufacturer & General Engineering company, we only select equipment & components that meet these high standards.

Christchurch

Move business to new location, design floor plan for easier workflow. Work with contractors during build and ensure all are on schedule. Redesign work areas to increase productivity. Ensure new layout corresponds with current health and safety legislation.Move operation over a week, design new racking systems and plot machinery locations. Set up electrical floor plan for best work flow purposes. Implement Lean Manufacturing and increase operational productivity. Improve product range by introducing more additional products. Introduce aluminium manufacturing, design new cattle crate concept, introduce new aluminium decks to our operation. Retrofit new bumper units, various tool box additions, create a one stop shop worth of product for our client base. Implement new health and safety format, record, process analyse and prevent. Create a monthly Tool box schedule for improvement requirements and an open forum for group discussions, targets and goals. Schedule daily factory operations and implement a goal for the days operational requirements. Look at materials and consumables, cost reduction and prompt vendor service. Improve ways to reduce labor costs and manual handling. Continue to endorse our product range via customer consultation. Update tow bar data from our ever growing product range. Negotiate new employment contracts and interview potential candidates for vacancies.

Christchurch

Implement new operation standards to meet KPI objectives. Introduce Lean Manufacturing to reduce operational costs. Update internal manufacturing operations to increase stock. Continue to update Health and Safety standards across the operation. Upgrade machinery function for increasing operational requirements. Create a clear understanding of day by day production process and implement change to better operation demands. Work close with EQC for plant repairs and schedule a plan for scope of work requirements. Look at plant layout and make improvements where necessary for reduction of none productive hours. Improve internal ordering systems to align with production scheduling. New employee planning for migrant employees, accommodation, banking and support systems for employee needs.

Improve productivity across entire area of production (originally 1 - 2 containers a month increased to 6 -15) fully loaded containers for supply across Australia and New Zealand. Introduce a maintenance schedule to reduce down time due to break downs. Implement production schedule to conform with product to reduce repetitive work in a working month. Work with local companies for new progressive die design when implementing new products. Negotiate with local steel companies for purchasing purposes. Work with administration team, change internal data sheets, create a schedule base system to optimize production. Work with production staff, learn Chinese culture and understand a different approach to manufacturing compared to western approach. Negotiate new contracts and interview new employee prospects as business continues to grow. Restore operations to 100% capacity when business zone flooded to waste height across the entire operation (happened twice). Our company decided to relocate business to new building site, develop lay-out principles for operation requirements. Work with local business when moving equipment and designing administration offices and reception area. QC new materials and ensure they are with in Australian and New Zealand standards. Teach staff health and safety measures with in our operational standards. Purchase new machinery for plant and new division in Cambodia.

Staff Management, QC of production operation, Monitor two operational sites, customer consultation, costing, manufacturing scheduler, OH&S endorsements, Logistics, heavy to light fabrication processes

Project manage tenders, quotation, site visit customers, set up production schedules for manufacturing, set up external off site projects for customers, direct manufacturing responsibilities to staff

Diploma, Management, Distinction

Nzqa Qualification, Engineering Fabrication, Level 4

High School Certificate, Mathematics, Science, Technical Drawing, English

Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Sporting Groups