April '07 PPMA

Attended training seminar on Machinery Risk Assessment

Sept. '03 - presentBradford University School of Management

Part time executive MBA

Complete pending Project

Sept. '97 - June '01Universityof Dundee

BEng _HONS Mechanical Engineering

Grade achieved ~ 2.2

Sept. '92 - June '97St.Bede's R.C. Grammar School, Heaton, Bradford

A-Levels: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry & General Studies

Work Experience

May 2004 - PresentThornton & Ross, Huddersfield

Position: Project Engineer

Industry: OTC Pharmaceuticals

Reporting to: Engineering Manager

Duties:

· New Product Introduction - Aided the successful introduction of new products via:

▪ Quality critical risk assessments

▪ Preparation or review of relevant validation documentation

▪ Sourcing and purchase of appropriate equipment

▪ Trialling and qualification of the equipment and providing engineering support during initial production runs.

· New Equipment Introduction

▪ Identify need for new equipment or processes by quantifying loss making areas or potential capacity problems in the factory.

▪ Quality criticality assessment of process in question.

▪ User requirement specification through consultation with all relevant parties.

▪ Vendor selection through the compilation of thorough functional specifications and design qualifications.

▪ Obtaining best value for the company through structured supplier negotiations.

▪ Assurance of equipment compliance with requirements through thoroughly documented factory acceptance testing, installation qualification, operational qualification and production qualification.

▪ Management of all stages of the project and communicating with all stakeholders, both internal and external, as to progress and ensuring timely delivery on budget.

▪ Ensure smooth handover to operatives and future running of equipment by the authoring or compilation of all documentation pertinent to the equipment and by providing a structure training programme.

· Maintain a system of data collection and reporting

▪ Provide accurate machine and labour standards to support all costing and planning activities including maintenance of routings.

▪ Quantify the effects on profits by the tracking of machine and labour efficiency variances and feeding back possible remedial actions.

▪ Support improvement activities by monitoring Production Engineering problems identified, actions taken and results achieved.

▪ Provide accurate key performance indicators for the Operations Board Pack.

▪ Aid the administration of the bonus scheme.

· Continuous Improvement - Ensure that equipment operates in an increasingly efficient manner to maximise output by:

▪ Conducting regular equipment reviews with Production Engineers in order to formulate and progress a plan to deliver improved line performance.

▪ Challenging current methods and develop new procedures.

· Safety - To ensure the safety of operators and production engineers using the equipment by maintaining a system of critical risk assessment reviews of all machinery within the production facility.

· Quality/GMP - To ensure compliance with GMP guidelines by maintaining a system of equipment technical files that detail all validation and qualification work undertaken.

Achievements:

When I started at T&R the majority of my role was to perform work study in order to set labour standards for planning and costing purposes. I wrote a database to store production data that was already being collected on paper system in order to be able to calculate standards more quickly and accurately. I managed to reduce the time involved in setting and maintaining standards from being nearly a full time job down to a week's work in every quarter. I was also able to reduce the time required to administer the bonus scheme from sixteen hours per week down to less than two.

I was also able to mine the data and present it in summary form to allow production performance trends to be monitored. These trends provide valuable KPIs that are included in monthly reporting for the board. More importantly this information has allowed me more easily target improvement activities and allocate resource appropriately.

Some resulting highlights have been the reduction in changeover time on two production lines by 50% by the installation of clean in place pumps, the increase in line speed from 50 to 75 BPM by replacing vacuum assisted filling with a gravity fill system on a line filling plastic bottles, the identification of labelling as a major site wide problem that had previously gone unnoticed resulting in expenditure approval for a programme of equipment renewal and the reduction of multiple process routes and double handling through packaging redesign and rationalisation in order to improve profitability and labour efficiency.

Aug. '01 - March '04Firth Rixson Rings Ltd, Rotherham

Position: Design Engineer

Industry: Aerospace Forgings

Reporting to: Process Improvement Manager

Duties:

· Design of all non standard forgings.

▪ Identifying potential savings at enquiry stage

▪ Computer aided design to give production costs

▪ Design of all associated tooling

▪ Organisation of sub-contractors to manufacture the tooling

▪ Running of production trials to yield satisfactory methods and results.

· Management of Technical Data Support Department.

▪ Ensuring the timely production of Routings to meet specification and expediting their approval internally and by customers.

▪ Implementation of 5S and lean thinking techniques.

· Control of drawings.

▪ The control and organisation of all types of customer drawing and internally produced sketches.

▪ CAD drawings of all the internal machining sketches and development of a standard format to meet internal and external customer needs.

▪ Draughting of customer's condition of supply drawings

· Process improvement. Working for the Process Improvement Engineer I was involved in various events and training such as Kaizen, FMEA, SMED and 5S.

· Reporting. I had to report to the site director on the performance of the front end office processes. To facilitate this I designed a report that both collected the data required and presented it in and uncomplicated manner. This also helped me to follow up the data and take necessary actions where required.

Achievements:

I was able to develop my change management skills by having to significantly alter the working methods of the TDS department to facilitate their incorporation into a larger team.

I wrote software to make the cost estimation process easier with less manual intervention that sought to capture knowledge and make it available to a wider user group.

Software Knowledge

• Microsoft Office (including Project, Access and some Visual Basic).
• AutoCAD
• ME10
• SolidWorks
• Ansys
• SAGE
• MFGPro