Planning and delivery of new Nissan Models into Nissan Manufacturing Russia - St Petersburg Plant. Key Deliverables On Time, On Cost, On Quality delivery of new Teana and X-Trail. ERA-Glonass: E-Call delivery for X-Trail Cost control, Schedule creation, on time design release, plant build support, setting up and managing milestone meetings, concern identification, countermeasure and resolution. Reporting to senior management.

Key project improving material control, traceability and tracking at the Portsmouth site for Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier and export projects. Projected savings of £600k a year on QEC.

Start up business manufacturing flat 8’x4’ boards from waste plastics for use in the building industry. Responsibility for all aspects of Production - H&S, Recruitment, Production Control, Stock Control, Material Ordering, Process improvement, CAPEX

Responsible for timely introduction of new products to cost and quality standards. Key Achievements: • Set up cross functional teams to ensure all key deliverables budgets and milestones achieved. • Introduction of robust test, development & problem resolution procedures (£300k budget per launch) • Mentoring, coaching and empowering of staff to take ownership of issues to achieve individual & company goals. • Implemented new strategy (Batch release) & efficiency improvements: 6 month reduction in time to market.

Responsible for build of all pre-series vehicles, problem resolution and validation of new facility during the first 12 months of the project. Responsible for the ramp up after launch to a maximum running rate of 122 units per week with a workforce of 125 technicians. Responsibility for all volume, quality, cost, health & safety and HR issues. Key Achievements: • Project managed on time build of all engineering, crash, legal & certification, development & field evaluation units with a small team of highly trained technicians (50 vehicles). • Set up of volume manufacturing facility with manufacturing engineers, parts analysts & IT personnel • Operational responsibility of facility & delivery of fastest ever ramp up of a new model at Aston Martin. First model to achieve more than 100 units per week in the company’s history through implementation of productivity improvements: line balancing, elimination of waste, improved tooling and processes.

Production Launch Manager and subsequently Production Manager with responsibility for introduction, launch and volume production of Vanquish. Dotted line responsibility for manufacturing engineering, quality, supplier quality and materials planning & logistics. Developed the manufacturing team and facilities to achieve increased volume through effective teambuilding to a running rate of 16 units per week from an initial plan of 5 units per week. Key Achievements: • Managed run out of last fully hand built vehicles:V600 Le Mans & the introduction of the new model: Vanquish • Operational responsibility for the whole site & an increase from 42 vehicles in 1999 to 660 in 2003 • Operational responsibility for 16 direct reports and 160 technicians in 2003 (doubled from 2000) • Developed employees to take accountability by motivational techniques, giving them ownership through clear communication of objectives. • Drove cultural & technical change on the site. • Achieved increases in volume every 6 months through productivity improvements: Line layout, process improvements, labour efficiencies, introduction of DC Tooling & build manifests, quality circles

February 1999 – February 2000 Manager – Quality Supply and Analysis, Ryton based • Responsible for analysis & treatment of all defective external & group supplied parts into Ryton for the 206 • Monitoring & reporting of supplier performance, assisting with supplier development & problem resolution. • Management of 8 specialist engineers, technical workshop & returns facility.

• Line supervisor (Sep 1995–Sep 1997) Responsible for 50 operators + all volume, quality, cost, HR & H&S issues. • New Product Launch Supervisor (Oct 1997-Feb 1999) Based in Mulhouse (France) & Ryton.

Development and Testing of New bearing products for Automotive, Aerorospace & Rail applications

Manufacturing Management

Manufacturing Systems Engineerig