PERSONAL PROFILE

A resourceful and highly motivated engineering technician, with comprehensive experience. Equally skilled in both plant maintenance and engineering fabrication. Strong interpersonal skills make him an essential team player and his good nature and enthusiasm is a positive asset to any organisation.

Education

1982-1987

Hawarden High School, Hawarden, Flintshire

GCE 'O' Levels

Maths General Science

Art History

English Language Physical Education

Auto Mechanics

Geography

work experience

2006-PRESENT

AC&E Services Ltd

Engineering Supervisor/Project Manager. My responsibilities are the supervision of mechanical and electrical trades to run various sites including Bridgewater Paper Mill, Airbus and also various other project work on different sites. My main duties go towards the mechanical and electrical disciplines for planned and reactive maintenance. I carry out major overhauls on key rotary equipment. I additionally run a team of civil trades people for various building tasks. This position requires me to perform the admin, involving quotations, pricing, sourcing of materials and labour.

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2005-2006

Rotary Equipment Services

Engineering Tech/Charge Hand This role involves servicing various rotating equipment from blowers to pumps, fans and gearboxes. I was also contracted out to "Airbus UK- Chester" as a Charge Hand, to give a high standard of preventative maintenance, as well as reactive maintenance. Whilst being based at Airbus I supervised all process equipment including the vacuum pumps for the wing manufacturing process to the pumps on the effluent plant. I also have been contracted out to Cabot Carbon and Shell Stanlow Refinery as a Mechanical Fitter in the OMP department doing there day to day engineering tasks.

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1999-2005

. Muller U.K. Dairy Ltd

Process Engineering Technician: Whilst working at Muller U.K. I specialised in the process-engineering department. I partook in day to day maintenance but mainly fire fighting. Work was undertaken on separators, cookers, driers, evaporators, positive displacement pumps, centrifugal pumps, blowers, ammonia plant, valve matrix's, coolers, chilled water, boilers, effluent plant and many more process engineering tasks.

1998-1999

AJ Parr & Son

Engineering Technician: Various engineering installation and commissioning of plant for a variety of companies from the Petro-Chemical industry to the Food Industry. In addition I undertook a variety of maintenance jobs including pumps, compressors, machine shop, welding, fabrication and numerous other engineering tasks

1995-1998

Associated Octel Ltd

Mechanical Maintenance Fitter: Maintaining pumps, valve fans, claves, pneumatics, hydraulics, driers, gearboxes, conveyors, condensers, furnaces, machine shop and a variety of other plant maintenance and higher-pressure systems and also machine shop work on various lathe's miller's etc

1992-1994

Warwick International

Mechanical Maintenance Fitter: Worked alongside Vulcan Insurance inspectors pressure testing manufacturing and distribution pots. Also refurbishing condensers, pumps, valves and pipe works.

1987-1992

HM Forces Corps of Royal Engineers: Apprentice as a fitter RE at Chepstow Military College, including working on pneumatics, hydraulics, pumps, machine stop, bench fitting, general workshop practice, petrol and diesel transmissions, welding, pipe fitting, basic electronics and various other topics. Combat engineer course at Gillingham including mine warfare, explosive, bridge building and demolition, scaffolding, general brickwork, joinery, plumbing, first aid (class 2). Served in Hamlin, Germany for 18 months as a maintenance fitter, working on all types of generators to chainsaws. My next posting was to the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) Alberta, Canada where I attained the rank of Lance Corporal. I also served as the engineer safety officer.