PERSONAL DETAILS

Profession Industrial Engineer

Summary of Apprenticeship Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Coventry

Qualifications City & Guilds Finals in Aircraft Production, Maintenance, & Production Planning

City & Guilds Full Technological Certificate in Aeronautical Engineering Practice

MTM, MTM-2, and MOST Practitioners Certificates

Former memberships of the Institute of Work Study Practitioners, and the MTM Association of the U.K.

Successful completion of Material Usage and Labour Standards courses at British Leyland training centre, Haseley Manor.

City & Guilds Certificate in Computer Aided Draughting & Design, 2-Dimensional Level 3 (AutoCad 2000) - June 2004.

Education 1957-'60 Bishop Ullathorne Sec. Modern Coventry

Pre-Technical Certificate:

Credits: English, Maths, Technical. Drawing

Pass: Science

Skills: Fully computer literate - Excel, Word, AutoCad 2000.

Manufacturing Engineering

Production Engineering

Work Study - Method Study / Work Measurement / Time Study

Continuous Improvement

Lean Manufacturing

Cost Reduction

Factory Layouts

NPI

Write-up of Standard Operating Procedures.

Extensive use of Work Measurement techniques to develop Synthetic Data for Labour Standards, Line Balancing, Costing, etc.

Clean driving licence, own transport.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I have used a wide range of Work Study / Industrial Engineering techniques during my career, namely:

The use of best Ergonomic Principles to design small bench-mounted fixtures and bench layouts.

Method Study / Work Flow techniques in the application of best methods and design of shop layouts and complete factory layouts, including the project management of the installations to ensure smooth and timely completion of the projects with minimum disruption to Production.

MTM-1, MTM-2, MOST, and conventional Time Study to develop synthetic data used for man assignments, line balancing, labour standards and budgets.

APPOINTMENTS I have variously been:

Senior Industrial Engineerresponsible to the Plant Manager for the Work Study, Costing Office, and Production Engineering functions of a company.

Section Leader - Indirects,responsible to the Chief Industrial Engineer for setting manpower standards for all Indirect Depts., and also material usage standards for all Direct and Indirect materials.

Industrial Engineerresponsible to the Group Operations Director for the Industrial Engineering function.

Manufacturing Engineerresponsible to the Operations Director for the Industrial Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Maintenance functions.

Product Engineering Managerresponsible to the Manufacturing Director for the Manufacturing Engineering, Value Engineering, Maintenance, and Health and Safety functions.

Contract Industrial Engineer in a wide range of industries

INDUSTRIES I am a highly self-motivated engineer and am equally at home working alone or as a member of a team, having worked in a wide variety of industries namely:

Automotive/OEM Land Rover Ltd.

Massey Ferguson Ltd.

S U Carburettors Ltd.

Bedding Vi-Spring Beds Ltd.

Electronics Erie Electronics/ITT Ltd. GEC-AEI Ltd.

Food St. Ivel Foods Ltd.

S & A Foods Ltd

Furniture Cooper Dauphin PLC.

Gordon Russell Ltd.

Project Office Furniture PLC.

Steelcase-Strafor PLC.

Universal Furniture Ltd.

Light Engineering Applied Sweepers Ltd.

Marine Marine Projects/Princess Yachts Ltd.

Interests I am extremely interested in Personal Computers, and own a Pentium PC with a wide range of Industry-standard software, including Microsoft Office, and AutoCad 2000. Other interests, apart from computers, include: Walking, DIY, and learning Spanish.

WORK HISTORY

Since early 2003, because of a long-term illness in the family, I have limited my range to within 50 miles of Coventry, hence the sudden change of job types undertaken since then.

2004 Capita Coventry Data Entry Clerk (Agency)

(Jun - Oct)

Reporting to Livingstone Brown, Shift Manager, pre-assessing/checking EMA applications.

Reason for leaving End of Contract

2003/04 UYT Coventry Production Operator (Agency)

(Nov - May)

Reporting to Dean Milbourne, Team Leader, nut welding/Spot welding parts together

Reason for leaving Sick of nut welding

2003 Coughlins Transport Tamworth Driver (Agency)

(Oct-Nov)

Reporting to Darren, Warehouse Supervisor, ferrying parts from Tamworth to Jaguar plant at Browns Lane

Reason for leaving: Coughlins decided to move member of office staff back into warehouse after his probationary period had finished

2003 Aramark Nuneaton Multi-drop driver (Agency)

(Oct)

Reporting to Terry, Stock Controller, delivering consumables to customers throughout the Midlands

Reason for leaving: This was a 1-week only job done during Coughlins/Jaguar shutdown week

2003 S & A Foods Ltd. Derby Contract Ind. Eng.

(Aug - Sep)

Products Pre-packed ready-made Indian meals

Reporting to Neil Robinson, Company Industrial Engineer, I was tasked with the job of finding the root causes of stoppages on the pack sealing machines on 5 of the production lines In a 3 week investigation, I identified the causes of the stoppages and made recommendations for corrective action. For a one-off cost of £940.00, material cost savings of £4,070.98 per week, and an extra 26,427 meals per week would be achieved.

2003Pressicion Southam Stock Controller (Agency)

(May-Jul, Sep)

Reporting to Max Bantleman, Warehouse Manager, member of team locating stock/ensuring stock in pick faces was up-to-date. Also created Excel spreadsheets to track stock movements. Reason for leaving: (May-Jul) To undertake Indust. Eng. Contract at S&A Foods, Derby

(Sep) Pressicion decided to change agency supplying them with staff

2001 - 2003 Vi-Spring Beds Ltd. Plymouth, Devon Contract Ind. Eng.

(Sep '01

/Mar '03) Products Luxury beds

Reporting to Chris Harrison, Operations Manager, as part of a two-man team tasked with carrying out a programme of Work Measurement to produce a comprehensive synthetic time database for all operations in the factory.

We also planned and installed a complete re-layout of the factory, and I personally produced a set of multi-layered drawings for all areas and Production Units using AutoCad.

I also produced a comprehensive set of Standard Operating Procedures for the majority of the production operations in the factory.

1999 - 2000 Marine Projects Plymouth, Devon Contract Ind. Eng.

(Jan '99

/Aug 2000) Products Sailboats and luxury motor yachts

Reporting to Tony Spencer, Area Manager, Kit Parts - duties: to carry out work measurement on furniture build in the assembly shop in order to develop computer-based synthetic data, to use this data to obtain labour targets for all work carried out in the shop.

1998 Universal Furniture Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan Contract Ind. Eng.

(Mar-June)

(Sep-Dec) Products Wooden domestic furniture & chairs

Responsible to Alan Jenkins, the Group Operations Director, for planning and implementing a programme of work measurement in selected production areas, namely: chairs, buffet and hutch lines. The outcome of the exercise was a 70% increase in productivity, and a doubling overnight of the overhead recovery rate - at no extra cost to the Company!

Changes to the packaging of finished products were also made, both in design and methods, which for an outlay of £30,000 would save the Aberdare site alone £196,000 p.a. on materials.

Total savings achieved on this, and the previous contract amounted to £240,000 p.a. for the Aberdare site.

1996 - '97 Project Office Furniture PLC, Haverhill, Suffolk Product Engineering Manager

(Jun '96

/ Aug '97) Products: Wooden office furniture & seating

Responsible to the Manufacturing Director for the Manufacturing Engineering, Value Engineering, Maintenance, & Health & Safety Functions on the 2 sites in Haverhill.

Personally tasked with project-managing the installation of £2.2million worth of new machinery, involving major re-organisation of the main factory

1995 - '96 Cooper Dauphin PLC Altham, Lancs. Manufacturing Engineer

(Mar '95

/May '96) Products: Wooden office furniture & seating

Responsible to the Operations Director for the Industrial Engineering, Quality, and Maintenance Functions

Specifically brought in to re-lay out the complete factory to accommodate £2.5 million worth of new equipment, and to organise and supervise the installation. Task successfully completed with no lost time to Production.

1992 - '95 Gordon Russell Ltd. Broadway, Worcs. Contract Ind. Eng.

(Oct '92

/ Mar 95) Products: High quality wooden office / boardroom furniture

Responsible to the Executive Manufacturing Manager at Broadway and the Group Operations Director for the Industrial Engineering function at Broadway, involving the supervision of in-house staff and Contract engineers.

1992 St. Ivel Foods Ltd. Wootton Bassett, Wilts. Contract Ind. Eng.

(July)

Products: Dairy-based products

Reporting to a senior Consultant to design and produce a range of interlinked Lotus-123 spreadsheets to analyse and report the performance of their yoghurt producing lines on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual basis, and covered the activities of individual machines, groups of machines, and combined groups of machines.

1992 Steelcase Strafor PLC Swindon, Wilts. Contract Ind. Eng.

(June/Sept)

Products: Wooden office furniture

Reporting to a Senior Consultant to single-handedly develop and implement a programme of work measurement on every production process within the factory.

Responsible to the Executive Manufacturing Manager at Swindon, and the Group Operations Director for the Industrial Engineering function at Swindon.

1992 Applied Sweepers Ltd. Falkirk Contract Ind. Eng.

(Mar/May)

Products: Pedestrian controlled pavement sweepers (the Green Machine)

Reporting to Alan Galashan, owner and Managing Director to study manufacturing methods and make recommendations for improvements to methods, Standard Times, equipment, and shop floor layouts.

1991 - '92 Gordon Russell Ltd. Broadway, Worcs. Contract Ind. Eng.

(Oct. 91

/ Feb 92) Products: High quality wooden office / boardroom furniture

Reporting to a team leader as member of team engaged to measure the complete manufacturing processes involved in producing high quality office and boardroom furniture.

1991 LandRover Ltd. Solihull, West Mids. Contract Ind. Eng.

(Jan/

Sep.) Products: Off-road 4-wheel-drive vehicles

Reporting to Pete Wadsworth-Manager, Management Services to investigate and recommend solutions to logistical problems arising from the transfer of major production facilities from the Drews Lane factory to Solihull.

Reporting to Dave Allen -Chief Industrial Engineer to undertake a series of time studies in the machine shop and use MOST to measure operations in the Range Rover body-in-white area and a new front axle sub-assembly area.

1988 - '90 Family Business Coventry, West Mids. Self employed

(Apr. 88

Nov. 90) I took over the running of the family Greengrocery business owing to the ill-health of my Father.

1978 - '88 Massey Ferguson Ltd. Coventry, West Mids. Indust. Eng. Grade I

(Dec 78/

Apr 88) Products: Agricultural and Industrial tractors

Reporting to a Senior Indust. Engineer, I was responsible for developing methods, standard times, man assignments, line balancing, etc. in a number of areas, including gear box sub-assembly, unit build, final build tracks.

Further qualifications: MOST practitioners Certificate (1979)

1977 - '78 S U Carburettors Erdington, West Mids. Section Leader - Indirects

Products: Carburettors/fuel pumps/engine management systems

Reporting to the Chief Indust. Engineer, responsible for determining and maintaining manpower standards for all Indirect Depts., and also material usage standards for Direct and Indirect materials.

Further qualifications: attendance at British Leyland training centre, Haseley Manor on Material Usage and Labour Standards courses

1972 - '77 Erie Electronics/ITT Ltd. Wrexham, Clwyd Senior Industrial Engineer

Reporting to the Plant Manager, responsible for the Work Study, Production Engineering, and Costing Office functions for the Wound Capacitor Division, Wrexham, comprising one main factory, plus three small satellite factories.

1968 - '72 Gec-AEI Ltd. Coventry, West Mids. Work Study Engineer

Products: Electronic telephone exchange equipment

Reporting to a Senior Industrial Engineer (trainee for the first 18 months), responsible for design of small bench-mounted jigs and fixtures, bench layouts, shop floor layouts.

Also responsible for developing labour standards and product costs on a wide variety of work ranging from precision sub-assembly of printed circuit boards, to point-to-point wiring of large 'racks'.

Further qualifications: MTM (1969), and MTM-2 (1971) Practitioners Certificates

Memberships of the IWSP, MTM Assoc. of the UK

1960 - '68 Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. Coventry Aircraft Fitter

Products: Civilian and military fixed-wing aircraft

1960-1966 Apprentice, experience in all aspects of aircraft production, from detail bench fitting, through sub-assembly, press shop, final assembly, and flight shed.

1966-1968 - Post apprentice-ship shop floor experience in Flight Shed.

Further qualifications: City and Guilds Finals in Aircraft Production, Maintenance, and Production Planning

City and Guilds Full Technological Certificate in Aeronautical Engineering Practice