Thomas Kirby

Experience

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  BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION (PROJECTS) UK LIMITED

  Apr 2013 - Apr 2013

  Work Experience

  I arranged a week of work experience with Bombardier Transportation Ltd in 2013. During this week I shadowed and worked with Engineers of varying expertise, mainly focusing on the Safety and Reliability of various trains. This allowed me not only to understand how large engineering firms operate but also gave me some hands-on engineering experience working with large complex systems.

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  Camp Young Judaea

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2018

  Summer Camp Counselor

  I have spent four summers working at Camp Young Judaea in America where I have been teaching Woodworking and sports to children of all ages. Responsibilities:• Bunk counsellor for boys aged between 8 and 13 taking care of both their personal organisation and welfare.• International Liaison, which involved supporting and organising events for 23 members of staff from around the world, integrating them into the camp and introducing them to American culture.

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  Cornerstone Security Systems Limited

  Aug 2016 - Sept 2016

  Student Internship

  I have worked for Cornerstone Security Systems, a small company specialising in security and safety systems, on two occasions. In 2015 I completed a week of work experience in which I assisted engineers in the set up and repair of security systems for some of their clients as well as helping the operations team with the organisation of engineers and testing of new software. They invited me back for four weeks in 2016 to work as part of their operations team. I worked directly with clients and organised the engineers to ensure all the works were completed. I also had to understand some of the financial side of the business by filing invoices and confirming pricing with clients. This gave me a real insight into how small engineering firms operate, helped me learn how to work as part of a team and taught me how to interact with clients as well as engineers and technicians Show less

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  Holme Pierrepoint Country Park

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  Dryside Activities Leader

  Part time job along side university degree. I worked as part of a team to run a climbing wall and high ropes course safely and provide the best experience to our customers.

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  Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

  Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

  Bespoke Manufacturing Intern

  As part of my degree I spent a year in industry working as part of the Bespoke Manufacturing team assisting both project managers and workshop planners in a variety of tasks as well as taking on projects of my own. Achievements and responsibilities:• I created a paperless tracking and forecasting system which allowed technicians to better plan their workload and improved visibility to the workshop planners.• I wrote a piece of VBA code which interfaced between an online data base and an excel document and was shown to save the business over £5,000 per year due to process improvement.• I created and implemented a new system to track Job Requests for our department which won a managerial award for Process Improvement. • I created graphs to demonstrate the capacity for both the direct and indirect employees. These graphs are were used by the Department Head and Workshop Manager to justify Headcount • Created a capacity plan to optimise our Laser capacity• I used my CAD skills to design and make a series of innovation ideas as well as being the project lead on an innovation project utilising a new piece of additive manufacturing technology. Show less

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  Siemens

  Sept 2020 - now

  • Head of Production

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Production Manager

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Production Management Graduate

    Sept 2020 - now