James Colver DipQ PCQI

Experience

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  (various)

  Aug 2007 - Nov 2011

  Plumbing & Heating Engineer

  - New Housing developments.- Commercial projects such as Stanwick Lakes Visitor Centre and Leicester Tiger's Caterpillar stand.- Domestic plumbing, including: Boiler changes and new heating systems.- Plumbing maintenance.

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  Caterpillar Inc.

  May 2012 - now

  Leading a team of 23 people, responsible for auditing product and piece parts to safety, regulatory, industry and company standards across 4 product lines. Leading a team of 27 people, as part of wider Logistics Team, responsible for unload, storage and distribution of production parts for 3 product lines. • Leading project teams performing investigations into early hour field failures distribution centre defects to implement factory containment actions.• Chair of daily meetings with global teams. • Creation of weekly performance reports.• Liaising with interdepartmental support functions at all levels. • Co-ordinating Quality Management system (QMS) document migration, via Word, Excel & Power Point, into corporate safe source, to align facility with ISO9001:2008/2015. • Implementing and auditing QMS facility wide across all departments, including transition to 2015 international standard. (Including Process definition, mapping & documenting, delivering training, implementing change and conflict management). - Production Line Operative assembling Caterpillar earth moving products.- Manufacturing Engineering Support function to implement continuous improvement within factory. - Product Audit Team Support to create, document & maintain the product quality checklist to effectively monitor & measure defects.

  • Quality Section Manager

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Logistics Section Manager

    May 2022 - now

  • Quality Support

    Mar 2019 - Jul 2022

  • Quality Technician (Document Controller)

    Nov 2014 - Feb 2019

  • Production Operator/Manufacturing Engineering Technician

    May 2012 - Nov 2014