An accomplished General Manager with considerable experience in a variety of Manufacturing Industries including, Sub-contract Fabrication, Public Lighting, Office Furniture & Leisure Marine.

This expertise, allied to technical knowledge & personnel & communication skills, has been utilised by companies in projects to introduce Change Management & make a significant contribution to their businesses & ultimately to profitability.

KEY SKILLS:

Setting policy Defining strategy

M.R.P. II & J.I.T Project planning

Quality systems ISO 9002/2000 Environmental management ISO 14001

Investors in People Kaizen (continuous improvement)

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Operational Management.

• G.R.S. In eight months employment,I developed sales from a best ever £1.2m to £1.6m.

• Windsor: Improved customer service levels by 30% + by reorganising & re-motivating logistics personnel to achieve Group targets for a Street Lighting Manaufacturer.
• Lewmar: Resolved a £1m arrears situation in 3 months by re-implementing a tested business model that ensured all stocks & the supply pipeline were filled with component parts for a Leisure Marine company
• Lewmar Reduced manufacturing costs by £212K in 1 year by introducing Kaizen (Continuous Improvements) procedures to a heavily unionised facility.
• Hamilton: Reduced order lead times from 6 to 4 weeks that allowed for a 15% increase in new business development for an Office Furniture Manufacturer.
• Parker Pen: Reorganised manpower in a modern state of the art toolroom to ensure that the company achieved the objective of launching Rollerball ® in 1981.

Project Management

· DW Windsor: Completed a planned program of transfer for all finished goods to a new warehouse facility without affecting customer service.

· Autoliv: Transferred the Precision Components Division from Chichester to a variety of worldwide sites. Cleaned up the 8500M ² contaminated site & prepared it for re-sale.

· Lewmar: Transferred manufacturing from Glasgow to Hampshire on time & on budget resulting in a business benefit of £600K per annum.

· Autoliv: Specified & installed a replacement wire cutting machine that increased production output by 140% per hour.

· Autoliv: Introduced robot handling, as part of a mould cell, that increased output by 35%.

· Autoliv: Upgraded a 30 year-old zinc/nickel chrome plating plant that reduced the plant run time from 15 to10 shifts per week.

· LPE :Transferred processes and methods from Japan to Livingston to enable the company to become the single source supplier of component parts in Europe to Fuji Manufacturing. Contract value was £1M+ per annum.

· LPE: Moved an entire production facility from a 3500M ² to a 5500M ² premises without any interruption to productive output and within 9 days.

Efficiency Improvements

• Autoliv: Increased by 30% the production of precision components by improving manufacturing methods & working practices that reduced downtime.
• Autoliv: Upgraded, as part of Quality team, accreditation from ISO 9002 to QS 9000 in 1998.

• Hamilton: Increased CNC machine capacity by 25% over 3 months.

CAREER HISTORY

Production Manager G.R.S. Engineering

2006 - 2007

Sub-Contract Manufacturers of Sheetmetal Products.

Logistics Manager DW Windsor Ltd

2004 - 2006

Manufacturer & Supplier of Public Lighting & Street Furniture

Factory ManagerLewmar (Scotland)

2001 - 2004

Manufacturer of Powerboat Anchoring Systems

Manufacturing Manager Hamilton Designs (Chichester)

2000 - 2001

Manufacturers of high quality & bespoke Office Furniture

Responsibilities:

All production sections: Furniture Engineering, Production Control, Customer Support & Liaison, Purchasing, Transport, Facility Maintenance, Management of 100 personnel, Health & Safety & Environmental Issues.

Manufacturing Engineering Manager Autoliv (Chichester)

1997- 2000

World's 2 ^nd largest manufacturer of in-car safety equipment.

Responsibilities:

Component production required for the manufacture of seat belts & air bags. Co-ordinated & controlled the activities of Works Engineering, Toolroom, Production / Industrial Engineering.

Production & Engineering Manager The Taylor Group (Ductile & Alloy Castings)

1996 - 1997

Manufacturer of Industrial Castings

1 year assignment to plan, control & oversee the installation of 2 new medium frequency 5 tonne melt capacity furnaces during a 2 week summer shutdown (Cost of £750K).

Production & Engineering Manager The Taylor Group (Livingston Precision Engineering)

1982 - 1996

Sub - contract manufacturer of precision components

Toolroom Manager Parker Pen Ltd

1978 - 1982

Toolmaker Eaton Yale & Towne

1971 - 1977

Apprenticeship Wilkie & Paul

1964 - 1971

Qualifications:

City & Guilds Full Technical Certificate - Mechanical Engineering