CAREER HISTORY

Jan 2007 – Present

Works Manager (Electrical)

Key Responsibilities:

Managing a team of tradespeople on a daily basis,

·         Ensuring that logged repairs from a computer based system are prioritised & attended to as required

·         Ensuring that the planned maintenance system is adhered too & completed on time

·         Planning & overseeing installation project work undertaken by the in house team

2003 – 2006             

TPM & Lean Project Pilot

Key Responsibilities:

Plan & implement TPM in the maintenance and production departments across the site.  Major achievements include:

·         MTBF Improvement up from 8hrs to 24hrs

·         MTTR Improvement from 4hrs to 1.5hrs

·         Reduction in Number of Maintenance callouts from 50+\wk to 5\wk

·         18% improvement right 1^st time quality in the Colour Booth

Develop & provide coaching on TPM principles & methodologies to Directors, Managers, Engineers and Production operatives.  Key achievements in this role have included:

·         200 production personnel instructed via formal presentations.

·         40 technical 1 to 1 coaching sessions for Maintenance trades people.

·         Provide coaching to Directors & Managers during committee meetings.

Managing contractors in terms of meeting the requirements of:

·         Maintenance Service Level Agreements and financial planning

Examples 2005: Air-con\chilled water maintenance contract £23K

Water treatment maintenance contract £53k

·         Planned work schedules and resource allocation.

·         Equipment and facilities repair management.

·         Identification and management of equipment reliability improvements

·         Analysis of failure modes and management of Reliability Improvement groups utilising problem solving techniques

1993 – 2003             

Reliability Maintenance Engineer

Managing & implementing planned maintenance activities & schedules using a computerised database system.

·         Incorporating 600 individual sets of maintenance instructions

·         Modifying time based schedules to take into account changes in the production volumes

Analysis of equipment reliability, and subsequently reviewing & re-writing maintenance instructions,  to ensure optimisation of maintenance activity.

·         Reduce PM Man hours from 600+ man hrs \ week to 520man hrs \week

Creating maintenance schedules for existing & new equipment using manufacturers’ manuals including:

·         Checking of all documentation to ensure that the technical content was relevant, pertinent and in a format easily interpreted by the trades people.

·         Creating specific visual aids to remove ambiguity of technical instruction.

1990 – 1993             

Multi-skilled Tradesperson

Working as part of a multi-skilled maintenance team to carry out breakdown repairs & planned preventative maintenance schedules on a wide variety of equipment in a fast moving Production environment. He has gained a working knowledge of PLC’s (Siemens), ladder logic & schematic electrical circuit diagrams. Carrying out installation work as required.

1989 – 1990             

Electrician

Working as an electrical Maintenance team member to carry out breakdown repairs & planned preventative maintenance schedules on plastic moulding & extrusion equipment. Carrying out installation work as required.

1970 – 1989             

Electrician

After completing an indentured apprenticeship to become a Class II electrician, installing & repairing a wide variety of equipment & electrical systems including EHT, HT, MV, LV, Flameproof and intrinsically safe systems.

Ability to read schematic & ladder logic electrical circuit diagrams