CV

Company Director & Senior Engineer: May 2008 - Current
• Joint responsibility with business partner for the running / development of an Engineering Consultancy.

Senior Engineer – Jacobs Engineering: March 2008 – May 2008
• Working for Jacobs Engineering on behalf of RSL (recruitment) on the North London Line re signalling works.
• Responsible for the follow up surveys and production of the Form EA’s for two signalling power designs, which included the production of a specific design analysis tool for the 650V single phase signalling power distribution design

Senior Design Engineer – Amey Infrastructure Services: March 2006 – March 2008

• Contract Responsible Engineer
• Management of design team, allocating work loads to produce compliant designs to client timescales
• Is responsible for the production of compliant mechanical and electrical designs for all electrification and plant projects.
• Evaluate and prepare tender documentation for works involving electrification and plant activities.
• To review and prepare risk assessment and method statements for electrification and plant activities.
• Manage design quality ensuring consistency throughout drawing and documentation process.
• Ensure applicable industry standards are applied by the design team.
• Customer Liaison


E & P Design Engineer – Amey Infrastructure Services: 2004 – 2006
• Carry out infrastructure surveys & inspections as required and produce relative supporting documentation.
• Production of compliant electrification and plant designs and associated documentation.
• To review and prepare risk assessment and method statements for electrification and plant activities.
• Quality Control
• Operation and maintenance manuals.
• Reviewing applicable industry standards.
• Customer Liaison

Significant Achievements.
Providing design solution to the renewal of the points heating system at Cardiff Central Station, a location considered to be too difficult by many due to the access restrictions and volume of traffic.

Overseeing the production and delivery of compliant designs of more than forty points heating locations in the Sussex and Wessex areas.

Distribution Technical Support Engineer – Amey Infrastructure Services 2001 - 2004
• Asset management
• Fault trending
• Production of annual plans for distribution maintenance function.
• Creating work procedure and instruction documentation, including risk assessments and method statements.
• Surveying infrastructure condition and producing status reports.
• Internal Auditing.

Design / Project Engineer - GPM Engineering Ltd (Reason for leaving – Company Liquidation) 1999 - 2001
• Design of mechanical handling equipment within the automotive industry from conception to installation.
• Manage the design / production / installation process to meet timescales.
• Site surveying
• Specifying and purchasing materials.
• Production of project documentation, including work instructions, risk assessments, method statements and FMEA.
• Site management to ensure installation is as per design.
• Customer Liaison – attending regular progress meetings


Significant Achievements.
Ford (Dagenham) – Design & build of a pneumatic table for the Fiesta production line to improve the ergonomics / manual handling and installation process of the spare wheel.
Jaguar (Browns Lane) – Design & commissioning of X350 / X100 model components lifting equipment;
• Front & Rear Subframe slings
• Diff Slings
• Axle c/w propshaft slings
– Design & commissioning of V6 & V8 engine slings and plattens
– Project management of the design, manufacture and installation of under-guarding (300m²), relocation of front & rear axle conveyors and electro-magnetic system to transport axles and engines throughout the factory.
German Motor Show – Design & Build of a display stand for use during the launch of the New Mini

Quality Engineer - Schade UK Ltd (Reason for leaving – Redundancy) 1998 - 1999
• Member of a small team ensuring product quality in the automotive industry.
• Product inspection and batch sampling
• Apply quality techniques such as Statistical Process Control (SPC).
• Ensure compliance to the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• FMEA team member.

Manufacture Engineer - Concentric Pumps Ltd 1996 - 1998
• Member of a small team producing manufacturing process controls.
• Production of cell and factory layouts to provide continuous improvements.
• Produce relevant information and documentation to enable new product introduction.
• Advanced quality planning team member.
• Production of Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) and schedule Total Preventative Maintenance (TPM)

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