Our Background

Hi there and thanks for visiting this page!

 

I am very fortunate after 40 years of engineering to now be a very experienced, professionally qualified engineer. I can offer huge experience in:

 

Training – IPC and bespoke tailored Sessions

Engineering Management

Heritage Railway Workshop Support

Quality management help and advice

Process Engineering help and advice

Production Operations engineering and management.

Quality and efficiency uplift programmes – specialising in 8D [extremely complex problem solving made easy!], P-D-C-A, 5S, Value Stream Mapping and six-sigma DMAIC / LEAN projects; large or small!

Continuous Improvement

Visual Factory / IoT / Industry 4.0 advice

Sectors that I have worked in include:

Electronics manufacturing / Printed Circuit Board Assembly

Low and high-volume assembly flow line work

Mining

High accuracy metrology

Oil and Gas

Medical

Aerospace

Cyber Security and RF

Heritage Railway – the GWSR

 

Qualifications and accreditations:

Qualified and regular user of 6-Sigma (Senior Green Belt qualified);
[Former] IPC Certified Trainer (CIT) in J-STD-001, IPC-A-610, IPC/WHMA-A-620 and IPC-7711/7721.
Registration advisor and IET industry representative

STEM Ambassador and IET career mentor
Delivered and published technical reports and white papers;
Trained and experienced in advanced management techniques.

Indentured apprenticeship

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I can help improve you or your business – guaranteed results – don’t hesitate to reach out!

 

Special Projects:

 

Significant cost reduction exercise projects – several and key business areas

Supplier and supply chain change/liaison and relationship improvements

Test leakage 8D success story

IPC Course delivery analyst SME

Global SME in IPC and soldering and ESD best practices for National Oilwell Varco

Preparing bespoke training for customers

OEE uplifts

Yield and first-time pass rate Improvements

Productivity/efficiency uplifts and waste removal

Recommendations and accolades from big customers like: Boeing, MacDonald Douglass, Fairchild, BAE Systems, Schlumberger and Zeiss….

Helping with Kickstart / STEM programs and promoting engineering to schools / colleges

Recruitment and applicability expert; designs selection processes

Process Mapping and Visio wizard.​

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To give a quick understanding of my full skill set / capability / career, see comments below: -

• Helping the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway stay safe, efficient and providing services to the public. Machine and workshop engineering management..

• Lean application (lean 6 sigma / DMAIC) in world-class quality management and business management systems; Senior Green Belt 6-sigma qualified (Black belt minus final hypothesis exams) / regular practitioner.

• Value Stream Mapping

• Developing and deploying a competent and high-performing Engineering and Quality team across multiple manufacturing facilities; extensive management skills and extremely quick and competent to grasp business needs and act; superb team leader and builder

• 5S SME - installed in many areas of Renishaw and introduced as a change concept in several other organisations.

• Interpretation and implementation of Quality and Regulatory Standards and regulations; Implemented ISO 9001:2015 at National Oilwell Varco from start to successful finish

• First class communication techniques

• High volume Flow line HPPP or piece-part batch philosophy expert 

• Managing budgets in excess of £3 million

• Capital justifications, purchases and implementor / management of change expert

• Gauge R&R, Metrology and Calibration/Verification principles; Expert in this field. Main role at Mira was ANOVA, Gauge R&R, MSA's and machine capability studies. Trained all engineers in all key aspects of these key tools upon leaving

• Risk Management, FMEA and Control Plans; Expert in this field. Developed and ran all PFMEA's at NOV and Mira. Introduced control plans at NOV

• Problem Solving, 8D, P_D_C_A, RCA and CAPA.

• Supplier Management and SCARs, including supplier audit & development; Acted as supplier quality SME at NOV; audited all key vendors on PSL

• Internal auditing & hosting external bodies and audits; Qualified auditor and exceptional hosting and people management skills

• Qualified trainer of IPC international Electronic Assembly and soldering standards -

• Extensive man management and mentoring skills

• Quality Data generation, analysis, reporting and visual management; Reported to director level on all process and quality improvement progress and all OEE / FTPR's on all assy ops

• OEE / SPC expert and implementor

• Product and process Quality Testing.

• Process mapping and proceduralist of robust flow charts / methods.

I have had experience in high regulations from Civil Aerospace to Medical (Renishaw) where the ISO:14385 was obtained (brain implants).

Clearly there's a bonus of being outside of the IR35 system - very short, short, medium and longer contracts considered and desired.

Scale of charges can be discussed but as an independent adviser my day rates are a third of licensed company's.

Examples:

Initial consultation = £100 for an hour

Day rate whilst training £350 / day

Weekly rate for pre-set SOW = £1600

Monthly FTC based on pre-set SOW = £5750

(Plus, reasonable expenses)

Note that IPC accredited / licensed organisations and very regimented in terms of delivering set training and they are very expensive due to licencing fees; often charging £900 / day.

Latest CV attached.

I look forward to hearing back from you of any opportunities you know of.

Thanks

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