Paul Ashwell

Experience

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  Texas Instruments

  Jul 1978 - Jan 1982

  Electronics Engineer

  Apprenticeship with Texas Instruments as an Electronics Engineer, focused around site repair and maintenance within Semiconductor production facility. 3 year broad based engineering apprenticeship covering all facets of engineering both mechanical and electrical, with bias on Electronics.

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  Wyko Industrial Services

  Jan 1982 - Jan 1993

  Sales Executive and Manager roles

  Worked at various power transmission distribution locations in a variety of roles, Manager, Sales, technical. Wyko, BSL, Olympic.

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  Schaeffler

  Jan 1993 - Feb 1996

  Regional Sales Engineer

  Regional Sales Engineer covering South West England. Looking after bearings & linear bearings sales and projects across a broad OEM customer base and also supporting a number of authorised distributors across the region.

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  Mannesmann Rexroth

  Feb 1996 - Jan 2008

  Regional Sales Engineer

  Regional Sales Engineer covering South West England. Looking after bearings & linear bearings sales and projects across a broad OEM customer base and also supporting a number of authorised distributors across the region.

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  Own Business Logistics and Transport

  Jan 1998 - Jun 2012

  Owner

  Self employed during this period. Following redundancy started my own small business in sameday and nextday distribution logistics and transport that grew turnover in excess of £1.5M pa. success grew due to principles and processes put in place to provide a higher than usual level of customer service, above that of other competitorsNever let a single customer down in over 10 years of trading. Qualified National Operations Transport Manager able to operate a fleet of vehicles uk wide.

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  ERIKS UK & Ireland

  Apr 2013 - Jan 2020

  Worked as a National Contracts Manager for ERIKS looking after key contract nationwide covering a multitude of customer operational facilities. Ensuring that we deliver above and beyond our customers expectations and offer ways to improve their business processes and best practice.Help the customer deliver against their main business drivers. Technical Benefits Manager working with our National Contracts UK wide, supporting our customers engineering teams, with technical solutions and engineering best practices around process and automation. Work with customers to streamline operations, processes and workflow opportunities. Looking at energy savings, waste and utilization of commodities. Worked as an MRO Specialist on a major customer site assisting with engineering improvements and engineering best practice. Formulating solutions to engineering issues and process bottlenecks, downtime occurrences etc. Project management and route cause failure analysis to understand and improve technical issues that in turn affect production output and OEE output.Provided vital support to customer to increase their procurement channels whilst saving time, money and reducing stock holding. Key Account Manager developing and supporting a range of Key Customers within the Gloucestershire area, supporting and developing branch growth and implementing operational support. Turning the branch into a top performing branch with improvement of customer base, increased sales and increase margins.

  • National Contracts Manager

    Jul 2018 - Jan 2020

  • National Technical Benefits Manager

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

  • MRO Specialist

    Jan 2013 - Aug 2017

  • Key Account Manager

    Apr 2013 - Dec 2013
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  ERIKS Industrial Services

  Jan 2020 - Sept 2022

  Regional Technical CBM Manager

  Currently working as Regional Customer Technical Benefits Manager, covering Manchester to Cornwall and South Wales, supporting our larger customers needs and demands, whilst assisting them with their engineering solutions and project engagement. Working alongside our customers engineering teams to assist with best practice and cost savings to their day to day business operations and processes. Looking at improvements and beneficial solutions to reduce downtime and increase uptime and asset management.Looking at energy saving, production ,process and waste management, time and efficiency savings and operational efficiencies. Show less

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  ERIKS UK & Ireland

  Sept 2022 - now

  Value Delivery Specialist

  Value Delivery Specialist at ERIKS UK & Ireland, Delivering Value Engineering, Innovation, High FOCUS on Sustainability Strategy Solutions around CO2 and Energy reduction combined with Best Practice and future growth. Working with Key Stakeholders at our Top level Customers across the UK. Supporting with identifying and improving areas that cause concern and need for improvement through upgrades and innovation, whilst not affecting our customers day to day operations. In turn improving their efficiencies and activities, to increase their OEE, increase machine availability and uptime, whilst reducing downtime and unnecessary Reactive maintenance and breakdowns. Monitoring current situations and predicting failures or learning from previous failures through RCA route cause analysis. Using data to create powerful Dashboards to monitor and keep focus real and on track. Show less