Experience

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  British army

  Jan 2006 - Sept 2017

  • manage a team on a day-to-day basis, delegating jobs based upon individual’s experience. I also ensure all aspects of the vehicles are maintained effectively against very demanding resources and time constraints set by company standard operating procedures.• Provide daily reports on the fleet status to my line manager; logging and documenting faults found and demanding any parts required. • inspect all completed projects to guarantee quality control of repairs.• mentor personnel within my team, supporting them to ensure a successful completion of their Entry Level Apprenticeship through annual appraisals and offering tutoring for practical work. • used my initiative to create health and safety based flow charts to aid colleagues in H&S procedures, giving them a step-by-step guide for accidents and spillages in a more concise format. • Liaising with external agencies to plan and schedule routine maintenance inspections. • Produce risk assessments for work that includes bio oil and hazardous materials.• Conduct unplanned field maintenance and repair tasks on vehicles, whilst being under pressure to ensure critical success for missions.• Alongside my managerial responsibilities I also practice and develop my own engineering skills daily, by working on Cummings 6 cylinder diesel engine, hydraulic braking systems and mechanical tracks. Show less • Created a detail work plan, which identifies and sequence the activities and gateways needed to successfully complete the project.• Prepared equipment schedules for procurement and when necessary raised requisitions • Liaised with the site based project engineer to monitor quality control, assurance and handover relevant documentation.• Ensured that site installation activities were performed 100% in-line with contractual requirements and ensure costs plan when necessary is adhered to. • Prepared dynamic risk assessments when necessary. • Assessed Material Verification, preservation, monitoring and early notification shortages, damages, including any consumables • Collected all job reports reviewed them and provided the same to the site manager for further reporting and archiving. • Maintained a 60 % Hands on with 40 % managerial working day enabling me to keep current with engineering practices.• Mentored personnel within my team, supporting them to ensure a successful completion of their Entry Level Apprenticeship through annual appraisals and offering tutoring for practical work. • Managed all aspects of vehicle projects for unplanned maintenance in the field. Making sure the correct work was completed in an effective and quick manner while ensuring no health and safety short cuts were made. Ensuring correct risk assessments were in place when using or repairing lubrication systems. Show less • On a daily basis I maintained and serviced hydraulic braking systems, Cummings 6 cylinder engines, pressurised fuel and coolant systems in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures.• Routinely serviced, and maintained an Armoured Fighting Vehicle in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures. • Used mechanical drawings in order to fault find on mechanical tracks, Cummings 6 cylinder engines, pressurised fuel and coolant systems mechanical and hydraulic systems.• Ensure Live Communications worked around the vehicle at all times with a familiarisation of electronic cables, connections and sensors.• Writing job reports to ensure my supervisor is aware of the faults and requisitions in order to ensure further reporting and archiving. Show less

  • Operations & Maintenance Supervisor

    Jan 2014 - Sept 2017

  • Engineering Team Leader

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014

  • Maintenance Engineer

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2012
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  Rolls-royce

  Jun 2017 - Nov 2022

  • Direct-Line Leader to 3 Team Leaders, and direct management of 26-person Multi-disciplined Team. Across two shifts. Indirect accountability for a further team of four. • Responsible for the Safeguarding of Apprentices.• Delivery of the Total Equipment Maintenance (TEM) through Lean Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)– Including Reviewing Planned Maintenance, Quality Maintenance, Training and Education, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), Best Practices, PMS , Improvements, Criticality (Conventional) Assessments • Accountable for ensuring controls are maintained through an approved Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) Process for Core Manufacturing. In-line with ISO 14118. • Accountable and Responsible for the Delivery of the Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), in conjunction with the Planed Maintenance Schedule (PMS) to ensure ONR 100% Compliance against SSCs.• Prioritise workload to ensure customer delivery requirements are met whilst ensuring planned maintenance is conducted in a timely and safe manner. 96% of PPM completed each week.• Responsible for the Cost Control for all external Service Level Agreements, <£750,000+.• Responsible Person for Control of Contractors and Permit to Works throughout Core Manufacturing. • Ensuring “clear line of sight” of accountability for respective disciplines “EC&I, Mechanical and Calibration” Show less • Following Business restructure, I was promoted to manage 21 direct reports across two sites with experience of heat treatment solutions for special metals, specifically the Vacuum Anneal process involving 9 Retorts, as well a Corrosion Film process AutoClave process, alongside a Chemical Cleaning and Machining Area. • Administer a budget for training, consumables, in-service support and maintenance contracts, whilst also handling overtime and employee reward schemes. This involves daily, weekly and monthly communication with internal and external providers/suppliers, as well as appropriate challenge to team members where required.• Lead monthly employee engagement activities within the area through “Winning Together” initiative which aims to drive improvements and team morale.• Create an environment for continuous improvement with emphasis on sharing and searching for best practice with other manufacturing areas through internal and external networks. Internally I ensure that my team members submit two yellow-belt projects per year, I also personally use my yellow-belt qualification by completing walk-the-floor checks monthly to identify any areas for improvement. • Identify and report all HSE events (e.g. accidents, incidents, unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, near misses, procedural violations, breaches of criticality control) in accordance with the appropriate safety management arrangements & event reporting system.• Proactively aim to avoid any HSE event by conducting weekly walk-the-floor checks alongside the H&S Advisor for site. Have also appointed a H&S Champion within my team to empower them to raise issues and encourage a safer working environment.• Ensure that the team remain compliant with all standard operating procedures, safety protocols and daily asset care/PPM.• Utilise SAP system to optimise the performance of manufacturing assets by coordinating Machine Tool Maintenance resources to find the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Show less - Set up and Recruited an Operations Team to Conduct Pre-Manufacturing Activities - Provided Operational Support to Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), Site Acceptance Test (SATs), Hazardous Operation Studies (HAZOPs) and Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA).- Created 5s Housekeeping Standards, Asset Care Regimes- Lead the In-Active and Active Commissioning on three Vacuum Furnace Retorts and Furnace- Created 5s Housekeeping Standards, Asset Care Regimes- Supported the writing of Licence to Operate Instructions (LTOIs (Work Instructions) Show less

  • Maintenance Manager (Nuclear)

    Nov 2019 - Nov 2022

  • Production Leader (Nuclear)

    Jun 2018 - May 2020

  • Pre-Production Leader (Nuclear)

    Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
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  Thermo fisher scientific

  Nov 2022 - now

  Site engineering manager

  • Accountable and Responsible for leading a team to deliver all Engineering and Maintenance activities across multiple ageing COMAH (Lower Tier) sites• Accountable for maintaining regulatory compliance for the COMAH Sites, including DSEAR (CompEx-14 Certified), LOLER, PUWER, LEV, Legionella and PSSR. • Manage and control yearly departmental expenditure for Operational Expenditure (>£1.3 Million) • Successfully Delivered Small – Medium CapEx Projects (<£1.5M)• Conducted Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAMs) assessments to drive asset reliability and optimisation.• Utilised Technology to validate reliability using Motion Amplification, Vibration and Acoustic Tools.• Conducted RCA, FMECA, and Fault Tree Analysis studies to ensure risks are known and mitigated.• Developed a culture that enabled the team to step away from Corrective Maintenance by focusing on Planned Maintenance and Route Cause Analysis.• Implemented Predictive Maintenance culture through empowering the use of Condition Based Maintenance tools.• Ensured the CMMS PM compliance was maintained at 96% with deviations addressed and postponement forms managed within the team.• Promoted and rolled out an Engineering Safety Culture improvement programme with a focus on LOTO and Engineering Statutory Compliance.• Created an Asset Criticality Matrix to enable Maintenance cost to be applied to the correct assets which were critical business needs. Resulting in a revenue increase of 15% and a decrease in overall Engineering Op Ex Spend, and Spare Storage.• Addressed the Engineering resource gap through working with a local college directly and hiring Engineering Apprentices, to ensure knowledge retention.• Responsible for the full employment lifecycle through Hiring, Performance Management and Retirement. Addressing each key stage through a fair consistent leadership. Show less