EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS:

HOBBIES &INTERESTS: Cricket: Played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club;

Played for Lancashire Cricket Board.

Played for Cumberland County Cricket Club.

Coaching youth cricket (Qualified coach).

Swimming.

2005 - Present NORLAND MANAGED SERVICES LTD

PROJECT ENGINEERING MANAGER (KPMG)

To provide leadership, management, and development to regional project managers for all defined projects for KPMG, ensuring financial, and operational commitments are met and exceeded. To ensure that projects are completed and are compliant with current standards and are interfaced with the facilities management personnel. Reporting to a Norland Managed Services Business Unit Director.

Key Responsibilities

· Provide leadership, and that contractual commitments are met and exceeded.

· Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of the contract are exploited, to deliver increased turnover and profitability, ensure additional services and projects are added, and contracts are re-won on re-tender.

· Ensuring business policies and processes are effectively communicated, and implemented within the contract.

· Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across both Norland Managed services and subcontractors activities, and are regularly reviewed.

· Ensure optimum staffing structures operate across contracts, balancing cost reduction with the delivery of service excellence. Ensure structures support peaks and troughs in workload, and disaster recovery.

· Ensure contracts are staffed by fully competent teams, ensuring post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.

· Working with other Operational managers to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective team working, and support to colleagues.

· Development of contract financial plans for revenue and profit delivery, reduction of WIP, debt, cost reduction and contract growth, and ensure that these are met and exceeded.

· Ensuring appropriate control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met.

· Ensuring customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with key client contacts.

· Provision of leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward.

· Delivering effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.

· Supporting the sales process through solutions development, participation in presentations and consultation meetings, hosting visits, and support to mobilisation as required on new contracts.

· Provide a learning environment, and appropriate training and development planning. Ensure basic training needs are delivered, employees are fully competent to undertake their roles, and are able to reach their full future potential.

2004 - 2005 OTIS LIMITED

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER

Responsible for the Management of Lift installations throughout the North West Region.

Having full P & L responsibility for all works approximate value of £4 million.

Duties include:

• Co-ordination of multiple projects
• Management and of multiple teams of engineers (from consultants to site engineers)
• Responsibility for Health, Safety and Environmental
• Introduction of service excellence programmes
• Organising and Carrying out Safety Training courses for engineers
• Carrying out staff training, recruitment, development and appraisals
• Performing Fatality Prevent Audits on site personnel
• Client liaison.
• Management of mechanical/electrical and test/commission engineers.
• Management of M & E Sub Contractors.
• Management and control of project procurement.
• Control of CDM projects and documentation.
• Production and management of timing plans and personnel including sub-contract labour.
• Production of tenders and quotations.
• Involvement in Tender negotiations.
• Management and control of project/contract budgets.

2001 - 2004 TYCO CONTROL SYSTEMS LTD

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsible for the Project Management of Various Infrastructure (Road & Rail), control systems and M & E contracts, including Public Address, CCTV, Radio Rebroadcast, Fire Detection & protection, Lighting, Ventilation, HVAC, Environmental and Emergency Telephone, and SCADA control systems.

Duties include:

• Client liaison.
• Management of mechanical/electrical and software engineers.
• Management of M & E Sub Contractors.
• Management and control of project procurement.
• Management of site work and panel shop work, on multiple site operations.
• Control of CDM projects and documentation.
• Production and management of timing plans and personnel including sub-contract labour.
• Management of maintenance and facilities associated with infrastructure equipment and plant.
• Generation and Introduction of new Information Business Management Systems.
• Production of tenders and quotations.
• Involvement in Tender negotiations.
• Management and control of project budgets (contract values £4-5millon pounds).
• Design and implementation of business data base, for Project Management control and reporting.

1997 - 2001 COMAU ESTIL SERVICE

Project Manager

Reporting to the North West Operations Manager and responsible for overall project control, from initial enquiry to invoicing upon contract completion. All work concerned with the motor industry, carried out to client specification.

Duties include:

· Client liaison;

· Producing quotations and project budgets;

· Management of contracts both in the UK and Overseas.

· Management of Mechanical/Electrical and Software Engineers;

· Management and Control of project Design and Documentation;

· Management of site Commissioning teams (various disciplines);

· Management of project procurement;

· Management of site work and panel shop work, on multiple site operations.

· Review of both Mechanical and Control system design information.

· Generation of mechanical design information for machine modifications;

· Co-ordination of mechanical and electrical design.

· Control of CDM projects and documentation;

· Introduction and development of QS9000 quality standard;

· Production and management of timing plans and personnel including sub-contract labour;

· PC literate in MS office and project;

· Set up and Management of maintenance and facilities associated with industrial process equipment and plant;

To include:

· Production and implementation of maintenance schedules and procedures.

· Control of multi-skilled maintenance personnel.

· Management of Maintenance and Engineering personnel training.

· Cost analyst of new equipment and plant (cost of implementing and savings/production yields)

· Integration of new equipment into a production facility.

· Co-ordination of production and maintenance requirements.

· Increased production yields, due to improved Q.A. procedures, machine reliability and control of raw materials.

· Upgrading and maintaining existing equipment and plant.

· Implementation of continuous improvements

· Introduction of modular parts and systems to reduce downtime and production turnaround times.

· Monitoring of material supplier defects/deficiencies.

· Planned machine upgrades and integration of new equipment during shut down periods.

1991 - 1997 POWDER SYSTEMS LTD

Control Engineer

Responsible for complete project involvement from producing quotations through to on-site commissioning, and operator training. All work concerned with the pharmaceutical industry, carried out to client specification.

Duties included;

· Client liaison;

· Control systems design (electrical/pneumatic/hydraulic) using Autocad

· PLC software produced for Siemens, Allen Bradley;

· Design of control systems for hazardous areas;

· Co-ordination of mechanical and electrical design for bespoke equipment;

· Review of full machine designs for both mechanical and control systems

· Management of project budgets;

· Preparation of parts lists and procurement;

· On-site commissioning in U.K. and Overseas;

· Collation of manuals;

· Operator training;

· Design and production of operating procedures and functional logic specifications for specific control systems.

1987 - 1990 TATE CONTROLS LTD

Electrical Engineer

Responsible for electrical circuit design and software programming of PLC based control systems. Company involved in design and installation of SCADA/PLC based control equipment. All work carried out to client specification.

Duties included:

· Client liaison;

· Design and development of PLC based systems;

· electrical circuit diagrams produced using Autocad;

· Building of control panels;

· On-site commissioning;

· PLC systems used - Allen Bradley, Siemens, Texas, Modicom.

1983 - 1987 PILKINGTON BROTHERS PLC

Electrical Engineering Apprentice

1 ^st Year Fitting, forging and hand skills, machining processes, fabrication, forming and joining skills, electrical and electronic techniques.

2 ^nd & 3 ^rd Year Work experience in electrical skills in various departments of the Pilkington Group. J2 Electrical maintenance1 & J4 Electronic maintenance 1.

4 ^th Year Further training & experience in accordance with E.I.T.B. Segments

J533 electrical/electronic instrument servicing, J535 microprocessor based hardware, J536 information and control systems, J537 system programming and operation

Awarded the E.I.T.B. Monitored Certificate of Craftsmanship. A modular system that involved selected training in specialised skills under controlled conditions with training specifications, instruction manuals, log books, a system of tests to measure performance .