Stephanie Thorogood

Experience

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  HPS TR Ltd

  Jul 2006 - Jul 2008

  Apprentice Gunsmith

  • Manufactured target rifle stock components using manual and CNC mills and ensured quality was maintained throughout batch runs.• Had responsibility at trade shows for advising customers on the correct ballistic components for their ammunition reloading requirements along with performing rifle repairs and servicing.

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  Wellington College

  Apr 2010 - now

  Pro Sports Coach - Shooting Instructor

  Teach school children aged 13-19 years firearm safety, marksmanship principles.I mentor and coach them through their shooting careers and aim to have at least 20% continue with the sport after they leave school.Previous students have gone on to represent their county, country and Great Britain

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  Renishaw

  Dec 2011 - now

  • Designed and implemented standardised working practices within a national multi-location division. Created procedures for best practice when performing quality investigations and guidelines for proactive idea generation using key production metrics and implementation methods.• Lead and delivered cross-divisional projects that improved production capacity, product performance and reduced costs.• Developed divisional KPIs to allow me to track and incentivise high performance across multiple product and production processes. Show less • Line manager for 4 supervisors and 70 assembly operatives working on high precision, high volume assembly processes.• Developed production build plans to drive delivery of products to meet customer requirements and deadlines.• Lead and coordinated cross-divisional working parties to investigate problems, developed and delivered robust solutions. • Managed the distribution of assembly operative resource to ensure build plans were met and resource was balanced across multiple production lines and processes. Show less

  • Lead New Product Integration Project Manager

    May 2022 - now

  • Senior Process Improvement Engineer

    Jul 2020 - May 2022

  • Production Manager

    Jul 2018 - Jul 2020

  • Engineering Manager

    Jul 2015 - Jun 2018

  • Production Engineer

    Dec 2011 - Jun 2015
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  Undrunk Ltd

  Jan 2021 - Mar 2022

  Owner and Director