Steve Walton

Experience

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  Jaguar Land Rover

  Sept 1983 - now

  Stamping Strategy / Sourcing• Provide guidance on press line suitability to the Feasibility and Simulation Team. • Identify strategic stampings & develop technical justification for stamping source.• Develop and maintain strategic parts brochure.• Interface with Manufacturing Business Office to establish press shop capacity.• Recommend preferred stamping strategy for press shop capacity planning.• Develop tooling packages including LCCS suitability.• Maintain preferred tooling supplier matrix.• Liaise with Purchase / Programme Management and develop tooling supplier strategy.• Strategic sourcing reviews – support business case to achieve re-sourcing / insourcing.• Full involvement in press shop business planning meetings.• Keep abreast of new developments, technologies and innovations appertaining to job.Stamping Tooling Estimating / Cost Control• Ownership of cost deck for investment / stamping input into programme.• Construct stamping and tooling cost estimates accurately reflecting market conditions and trends.• Provide sound financial advice to facilitate accurate decision making.• Alignment of SE investment inputs to programme financial targets.• Conduct / collate information for benchmarking exercises.• Maintain tooling cost database.• Ownership and ongoing development of standard RFQ tooling document. • Collate PDL / SEL responses for all new programmes and model year activity.• Support OLQ events / cost negotiations to achieve programme financial targets.• Full involvement in make vs buys studies.• Support Programme Team / Purchase with VFM exercises. Show less

  • Forward Programmes Planning Manager

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Manager - Forward Programmes, Tooling & Pressed Parts Group

    Aug 2019 - now

  • Project Engineer

    Sept 1983 - Jul 2019