Engineering Management Consultant / Business Improvement Specialist

• Inspire and manage Transformational Change Programmes and provide Consultancy in the implementation of Asset Management Frameworks.
• Delivery and Management of Business Improvements to improve Operational Performance.
• Implementation of Continuous Improvement, Lean Management and Business Best Practice.
• Auditing and Implementation of ISO Management Standards – ISO 55000 (Asset Management), ISO 14001 (Environmental Systems), ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems) and ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety).
• Responsible for Project Management of Change Programmes
• Provide Guidance and Technical Support in the Design and Implementation of Management Systems.
• Delivery and management and implementation of Governance and Management systems through the management of key stakeholders within the business with the goal of achieving the business objectives.
• Delivery of Project Management and Support services to businesses with the goal of achieving the business objectives.

Asset Improvement Engineer / Change Improvement Manager

• Inspired and managed Change and Business improvements using Transformational Change Programmes Efficiently executed activities and practices enabling organisations to optimally manage assets. This was achieved by considering SHE, Quality, Operational risk, Corporate Policies and Guidelines and legislative requirements.
• Successfully delivered and managed the implementation of Governance and Management systems through the management of key stakeholders within the business with the goal of achieving the business and/or plant objectives.
• Implementation of Reliability principles, Continuous Improvement, Lean Management and Business best practice.
• Successfully guided plant personnel in the identification of Plant Reliability, Availability, Asset Criticality, Maintenance risk and successfully implemented short, medium and long-term mitigation strategies.
• Improved the operational delivery of the businesses with the implementation and management of Defect Elimination Governance and Structure. Successfully managing repeat failures by carrying out detailed Root Cause Analysis with a goal of improving business KPI’s.

Service Management - Operations - Change & Major Incident Manager - Global

• Effectively managed and developed the group Change Management and Escalation processes in the UK and Globally. Ensure alignment with business operational requirements to ensure the continuity of Operations.
• Efficiently managed multiple Major Escalation teams to ensure the operational continuity of the Group and Manufacturing business operations and key critical production systems.
• Successfully managed multiple discipline teams mitigating and minimising the impact to the business by ensuring the availability of key systems and processes.
• Established and effectively managed Change Implementation Boards to ensure controlled, risk assessed and managed implementation of changes, ensuring consistent communication to all stakeholders.
• Developed and delivered common work practices and processes to the organisation throughout Europe.

Development Engineer – Business Processes

• Successfully implemented and managed multiple business-wide improvements projects within the manufacturing process through the Management and Development of Capital investment schemes and Major Maintenance which helped the business to realise significant savings of £1,000,000+ per annum.
• Accountable for the Management of multiple complex Projects and all aspects from Conception, Budget Control, Business case, Project initiation, Management, Implementation and Commissioning.
• Successfully project managed a Business Optimisation Scheme, realising savings to the business of approximately £300,000 per annum utilising Lean Principles.
• Successfully implemented and managed multiple key Projects relating to IT, Engineering, Operational, Health and Safety Projects: Management of Change, Permit to Work; Manufacturing and Commercial.
• Led the continuing development of service action plans to deliver the business IT strategy and Communication

Business Strategic Analyst - (Seconded)

• Performed extensive commercial market analysis with an aim to improve the RONOA of the business.
• Effectively identified and implemented strategic development plans to espouse the goals and objectives of the Business.
• Successfully Analysed, Defined, Proposed and manage improvements within the business.
• Effectively developed and managed improvement projects in the areas of Engineering, Logistical, Technical, Commercial and Operational/Manufacturing Improvements.

Process Engineer – Process Control and IT

• Successfully project managed an upgrade (£2,000,000) of key critical integrated temperature control and pacing systems, realising savings to the business of approximately £750,000 per annum.
• Developed and managed a number of Capital projects relating to Business Information, Process Control and Manufacturing systems.
• Effectively developed and managed company-wide Production critical systems
• Successfully administered company business and production critical industrial networks.
• Successfully Implemented and managed Production and Process critical systems through the Management and Development of Capital investment schemes.

(Operations Engineer / Project Engineer (Mechanical)

Operations Engineer (Skinningrove/Darlington)

• Managing, Planning, Assignment, Co-ordination and Management of the maintenance work on the Special Profiles Darlington sites and management of site contracts.
• Responsible for Furnace Maintenance & Key Engineering systems. Shutdown Management of aforementioned systems.

Project Engineer (Skinningrove) Engineering

• Project team member responsible for the installation of a new Hot Rolling mill and associated Operational systems.
• Duties involved Managing, Planning, Assignment, Co-ordination and Management of the maintenance work for the New mill, plant and site contracts. • • Providing specialist engineering support to the day shift engineering teams in both the aforementioned areas.

(Principal subjects): Structural Mechanics, Dynamics, Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Design, Computer Aided Engineering Design, Engineering Materials.
(Project): Degree thesis entitled “Optimal Topology Design by Finite Element Analysis”

(Principal subjects): Software Engineering, Software Development, Database Systems and Advanced Programming Techniques
(Project): MSc project thesis entitled “Auto Pilot for a Lunar Lander”

Member of Institute of Mechanical Engineers

• Administration and Management of Database Management systems. MS SQL, Programming experience in Pascal, C, C++, Visual C++, Html, Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP, SQL.
• Implementation of Standard operating environments and IT Infrastructure.
• Management of Active Directory and Microsoft Operating Systems & server structures
• Project Management, ITIL, Root cause analysis, Six Sigma Principles & Techniques, Trained as SSBB, FMEA, Lean Manufacturing, Auto-Cad, SAP PM, Fault location, Client liaison, Quality assurance, Testing, Staff training, Strategic planning, Feasibility studies, Product improvement, Process and Governance Improvements, Health & Safety, Engineering Procurement.
• Engineering Design, Engineering Procurement, Mechanics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electronics, Manufacturing, Automation/Distribution.
• Intellution Fix (GEFanuc), SCADA Systems, Eurotherm, Data Servers, HMI, Field Devices, I/O, TCS Controllers, Industrial Networking (DEC Digital, Hirschmann, Cisco), Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN), Laser Measurement Systems. Fibre Optic, CAT5/6 Networking, LU6.2, Token Ring, TCP/IP, Feed Forward/back Systems. Computerised Control Systems, Siemens S5 / S7, Siemens H1, Programming (PLC & Object Orientated)