Production/CI Engineer largely experienced in the automotive sector, I particularly enjoy identifying and removing waste activities from processes through team orientated process mapping and continuous improvement exercises; I have a passion for improving things.
Why are you a good candidate? What are your unique selling points?
- Over 14 years as a production engineer in the automotive industry
- Experience with setting up new purpose-built factories and streamlining older well-established ones.
- Experience working in the oil & gas sector.
- Extensive experience of FMEA, Process Control, DMAIC, Kanban, 8D reporting, Kaizen / Continuous improvement techniques, Process and Value Stream Mapping.
- Trained also in Health and Safety, and internal auditing for ISO9001 and ISO14001.
3 greatest professional achievements:
- Whilst working at a previous company, I specified and co-ordinated the reorganisation of the factory layout, creating more efficient 'U'-shaped lines, successfully, introduced one-piece flow methodology, and started a process improvement' scheme. This brought about labour savings of 27%, whilst saving 38% of the floor space for further expansion, and reduced WIP by 50 %.
- More recently, the Master Production schedule was originally updated manually by the Production Manager daily in my last role. This was time-consuming, constantly out of date and prone to errors. I mastered the SAP system, and was able to link the Planner to the real time SAP data so it refreshed every 15 seconds, providing a reliable data source for all departments, improving efficiency levels and reducing errors which impacted on the whole production floor.
- I was the sole Production Engineer for many years in a previous company, I facilitated an increase in output from £2M to over £44M turnover in less than 10 years, whilst reducing labour costs as a percentage of sales from 15% to 8%, through continuous improvement.
3 most important things about next move:
- Small to medium size operation, who are looking to grow and ready to embrace lean methodologies
- Friendly team and openminded workforce with regards to Continuous Improvement
- Location, accessible and within a reasonable distance from Greater Manchester