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Glasgow, Gb

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Engaged to support the Critical Technologies Accelerator (formerly the Pilot Accelerator for the National Institute for Quantum Integration), at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre in the University of Glasgow, managing all aspects of the pilot programme such as project documentation, summary reports and reviews and communicating with partners internal and external to the University, including project sponsors, stakeholders, and partners.Responsible for risk management to ensure processes are in place to comply with stakeholder requirements, legislation, University policies, procedures, and industry best practices, and the management of subcontractors and suppliers within University processes to ensure successful project delivery.

United Kingdom

The Improvement Partners Ltd., aim to provide expertise to Small/Medium Enterprise-sized business clients to enable the elimination of waste in all aspects of day-to-day operation, and to drive business growth using Lean principles. We will achieve this by educating and mentoring at all levels in an organisation from the shop-floor upwards to enable ongoing application of Lean principles at the practical level. We will ensure capability and knowledge transfer tailored to specific requirements, and not by the application of a “one size fits all” solution.Find us at: www.theimprovementpartners.co.uk and Twitter at: @improvement_ltd

Contracted To Customer In France

Roles and responsibilities: Contracted to provide engineering support, practices and tools to drive availability improvements on specific equipment, thereby eliminating issues inhibiting a factory capacity ramp. Successfully completed.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Responsible for the direction of a group of Process Engineers in support of the Manufacturing Group, covering all aspects of automation, robotics and continuous improvement activities within the factory, and the provision of resources for New Product Development and Introduction.

At Various Customer Locations

Roles and responsibilities:Project assessments and studies, with resultant implementation and execution of all project activities identified as per each customer's needs and requirements in line with the previous Focus Activities within the company.

On-Site At Customer Locations

Roles and responsibilities:Project assessments and studies, with resultant implementation and execution of all project activities identified as per each customer's needs and requirements.Focus activities: - Analysis of availability data to determine sources of variation in scheduled and unscheduled downtime - Deep-dive observations of practices and procedures in real-time during Preventative Maintenance - Management and scheduling of PM activity - Maintenance tech resource effectiveness - Lean and 5S practicesThrough the above observations - development and execution of action plans to improve overall predictability of availability and overall utilisation

Management of Process and Equipment Engineering functions in the Dry Etch Group, at the Newport, South Wales, facility to ensure high quality, consistent output of power control semiconductor devices, and to ensure ongoing support of research and development activities on new products and processes.

Management and coordination of the definition of various automated photovoltaic "solar cell" production line concepts from layout to installation, and the provision of technical support to the Sales Group, to enable continued business growth.

World-wide coordination for the ramp-up and standardisation of automated solar-cell manufacturing lines as developed by Roth & Rau AG.Development of best-known methods and the administration of a reference database for the company.

Process support of manufacturing.Process Control.Cost reduction project management.People management.

Oversaw ramp and sustaining of DUV Litho area on sub 0.15 micron logic and flash memory technology.New product introduction.Engineering staff management.Manufacturing process support.Process improvement.

Responsible for startup and ramp of Lithography Area in Intel's new Arizona fab.Supervised Controlled Collapse Chip Connection group.Manufacturing support.

Responsible for startup and ramp of Intel Fab10 ILD CVD section. Owned specification of tools, supervision of construction and shipment to site, onsite inspection, qualification and ramp to production.Ongoing equipment support and maintenance.

Shift support coverage for manufacturing line.Continuous process improvment and sustaining.