PROFILE:

· Project Manager/Engineer with an excellent track record over a 15 year period of delivering major projects on time and within budget for leading food process equipment suppliers to the food industry.

· Management experience of running a busy Technical Service Dept., growing both turnover and profitability, through developing customer partnerships, delivering solutions and strong commercial acumen.

· Excellent communication and presentation skills allied with drive, determination and vision to focus teams to achieve business goals.

· Proven man management skills through leading multi-disciplined teams of engineers during the design, build, installation, commissioning and successful handover of major projects, in the UK, Europe and USA..

· A versatile engineer with combined mechanical engineering ability and detailed control systems knowledge, including PLC and Scada background.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

PROCESS ENGINEERING LTD Dec 2006 to Present

Self Employed "Contract" Project Engineer/Manager







Recently completed 8 month contract for Flo-Mech Ltd, working at Walkers Snack Foods, Coventry - specifying, planning, installing and commissioning a new packaging line.

DOUBLE D FOOD ENGINEERING May 2004 to Dec 2006

Technical Manager - Cooker & Ovens

Post sales customer interface with factory, including equipment specification, new applications, project installation planning/commissioning and new machinery development.

GW PADLEY (POULTRY) LTD May 2002 to May 2004

Engineering Project Manager

Responsible for Prepared Foods Project Engineering Department, covering capital investment of new equipment and process improvement of existing assets. Annual Budget of £3.5M, reporting to Company Chief Engineer, co-ordinating and developing a team of 2 Project Engineers, 1 Draftsman and large subcontract workforce.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

FRIGOSCANDIA EQUIPMENT LTD (Nov 1993 to April 2002)

Jan 2001 to April 2002- Service Manager UK & Ireland

Reporting directly to M.D. and part of the Senior Management Team, with 6 direct reports plus large subcontract labour force. Responsible for providing breakdown service, modifications, upgrades, retrofit kits and spare parts for large installed base of industrial freezers, refrigeration and food processing equipment. Annual Sales Budget £2.5M achieved with 10% margin increase.

Jan 1999 to Jan 2001 - SPS European Engineering Manager

Responsible for machine development, design, specification, cost budgets, installation and commissioning of new Steam Pasteurisation System. 5 months spent on assignment in Seattle, USA.

Nov 1993 to Jan 1999 - Project/Commissioning Engineer

Project Engineering responsibility covering Conveyors, Fryers, Ovens, Freezers and Refrigeration Systems, including budget preparation, specification, design, on site co-ordination of the installation and commissioning. Special emphasis on electrical systems, Siemens S5 including hardware & software design.

COMMISSIONING ENGINEER - Self Employed (Nov 1990 to Nov 1993)

Position: Projects/Commissioning Engineer

Responsible for the installation and commissioning of a number of different companies projects relating to both food process and heavy industry, working across Europe based from Sweden.

REDLAND ENGINEERING LTD (June 1987 to Oct 1990)

Position: Projects Engineer

Project co-ordination and site installation/commissioning responsibility for turnkey mechanical handling systems for companies within the Redland group. Holland, automation of manually operated roof tile production line- value £800K. Sweden, replacement high speed roof tile packaging equipment.

AIR PRODUCTS LTD (May 1985 to June 1987)

Position: Technical Auditor

Conducting internal company investigations and procedural studies at a variety of manufacturing facilities.

DELCO PRODUCTS LTD (Aug 1978 to April 1985)

Position: Technical Apprentice

7 year training program combining an E.I.T.B. apprenticeship with a 4-year sandwich course in Industrial Engineering at Hatfield Polytechnic. Extra courses were taken in Robotics and Microprocessors/PLC's.

QUALIFICATIONS: 8 'O' levels,

B-TEC Mechanical and Production Engineering

BSc (Hons) 2:2 Industrial Engineering.