Senior Consultant

Experience

Jan 2001 - Present

Engaging client participation through analysis stage to project stage , performing various studies to identify potential savings for the client.

• Identifying areas of improvement with involvement from Executive, Management and Supervisory levels.

• Formulating action plans to secure improvement for Client Company.

• Developing cross-functional management control systems.

• Conversant with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Achievements have included :

• Saving at least 15% of operational costs for all clients.

• Identified enough opportunity to achieve a R.O.I. of 300%.

• Achieved behaviour change with client personnel, through interactive workshops.

Steel Processing:

Test House

• Increased sample throughput by 25%. By agreeing process standards .

• Increased saw utilisation by 18%. Using skills matrices to highlight training requirements and implementing a training plan to increase the departments skill base.

Engineering

• Reduced downtime from 10% to 4%.

• Increased the level of Preventative Maintenance from 45% to 70%.

• Through installed PM Checklists standards were agreed to improve the efficiency of all PM jobs.

Meat Processing:

• Reduced downtime from 12% to 5% using downtime audits, increased preventative maintenance (25%) and checklists. Installed skills matrices to identify training issues.

• Installed a method change in the pricing room which allowed a reduction of 12 ppl.

• In the despatch and intakes departments procedures were installed to control more effectively the truck movements, allowing for more effective resource planning. This enabled a reduction of 10 ppl from the department. .R.O.I for this project was 4.5:1.

Telecomms:

• Reduced Manufacturing cost per handset from £109 per unit to £ 74 per unit.

• Increased production by 11% through effective scheduling and agreeing targets per product group and hourly follow-up by supervision.

Chemicals:

• Increased vessel processing from 3 per shift to 12 per shift through working method changes and closer supervisory follow-up.

Having worked with clients in the following industries: Chemicals, Retail, Insurance, Wood Telecommunications (Manufacturing and Maintenance), Paper (Manufacturing, Maintenance and Energy), Call Centres, Transport (Workshops and Sales), Hospitals, Hotels, Ferries, Warehousing, Direct Marketing and Automotive and Food processing.

Productivity Specialist

Impac Ltd. Florida Nov 1996 – Jan 2001

All activities performed for Impac are the same as for Nightingale Resource Management.

With Impac I specialised in Energy and Maintenance, having worked in Europe, Malaysia and Thailand.

Achievements have included:

• Direct marketing:

Increased production in the packing department by 9% through establishing targets per product group, and hourly follow-up by supervision.

• Paper Manufacture:

Increased production in the converting department by 8% through agreeing targets per product group and also through capacity studies, which allowed increased line volumes.

Manufacturing Manager

Midland Extrusions Ltd Aug 1974 – Nov 1996

As part of the Management team running 3 aluminium extrusion presses with approximately 60

Employees plus a packing and dispatch department with 40 employees.

• Planning and scheduling orders.

• Responsible for all quality issues.

• Teambuilding and Training.

• Delivery on customer due dates.

Achievements have included:

• Increasing Production by 25%.

• Reducing scrap using S.Q.C. by 15%.

• Reduced downtime from 14% to 6% through the installation of preventative maintenance procedures and implementation of a works order system.

• Increased yield from 72% to 83%.