David Cox

David Cox

Senior Manufacturing advisor

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  • About me

    Continuous Lean Process Improvement training, development & implementation consultant at Australian Management

  • Education

    • Urbrae High

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      High School Leaving Certificate AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE OPERATIONS, AND RELATED SCIENCES

      Studied agricultural & viticulture work areas to find a career in this field.

    • Adelaide Uni - S.A.

      1977 - 1982
      Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Completed

      Activities and Societies: Australian Institute of Industrial Engineers Ex Mitsubishi Motors & Ex Confederation of Australian Industry concerted effort for studies has been on People skills to resolve work / engineering problems to reach maximum potential within work parameters.

  • Experience

    • Confederation of Australian Industry

      Feb 1998 - Oct 2000
      Senior Manufacturing advisor

      To provide Value Adding Management (VAM) to all organisations that had the goals and vision to allow operators the opportunity to improve work process & practices & measure the savings & benefits.To train JIT concepts and implications towards real process improvement including the Bottom Line. To train in Quality assurance, quality control within enterprises to reduce unit cost, through the best resource, company employees.

    • Australian Institute of Management S.A.

      Nov 2000 - Jun 2003
      Senior Adviser on the Executive team

      To provide in-house training & development in Team based Continuous Improvement, Lean Improvement, Process Re-engineering and Visual Management, Effective Management skills, Front Line Management skills, Supervisor skills & Train the Trainer techniques to organisations.

    • NAM Training RTO specialist

      Apr 2010 - May 2013
      Lean policy & implemetation consultant

      Under the Vocational Education Training Australian system I supported NAM Training in Western Australia in Lean CI 6 Sigma team based Certificate qualification based learning. This included supporting the master Lean Improvement plan, to implement and measure project success to organisation Bottom Line figures.

    • Australian Management Development

      Jun 2013 - now
      Managing Director

      The role in this position as a Change Manager professional catalyst for introducing company wide cost reduction and measured LEAN CI work place improvement.The focus of change within an organisation is related to hands on training of organisation's employees to reach their highest potential in LEAN 5S CI project improvement, in the most practical sense. Employees in a team structure must validate, justify and measure real tangible improvement representing thousands of positive dollars to the "Bottom Line".Most importantly team guidelines detail no or very little Capital expenditure whatsoever in implementing improvement.This team based training method develops ownership of the projects, committment to implement, sustainability, Team Leadership improvement, Supervision responsibility improvement and improved worker morale. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certificate IV Training & Assessment

      VET - Vocational Education & Training
      Feb 2011
    • Certificate IV in MSS40312 Lean 5S Systems & Practices Improvement

      VET - Vocational Education & Training
      Feb 2010