Ambitious Experienced Engineer

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Skills keywords: control engineering, education lecturer, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, people management skills

Short Bio:

A ambitions, highly-skilled, bi-lingual, Fluent in written and spoken Arabic, respected Engineer and Lecturer in Electronic, Electrical and Control Engineering with extensive experience, notable achievements and success earned in the manufacturing engineering industry and latterly, the education sector. Combines a broad portfolio of teaching, technical and commercial skills with an appetite for challenging work and personal achievement. resourceful and capable of working to demanding standards,

Current location:  United Kingdom - View on map

Nationality: British

Preferred Sector of Employment:  education and training, Manufacturing and Operations

Spoken languages: Arabic, english

Location I am interested in working: Anywhere

Fields of Special Competence

 Wide range of experience in diverse educational environments

 Skilled and committed facilitator, classroom practitioner and teacher

 Curricula development, development and management of educational and training programmes

 Coaching, counselling, development of life skills and self-esteem in others

 Educational quality assurance standards and performance management

 Accomplished listening, negotiating and influencing skills

 Empowering, coaching, motivating and developing individuals and teams, mentoring staff colleagues

 Incisive analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills – able to view problems with a solution-oriented perspective

 Assimilation, analysis, manipulation and communication of complex technical data/information

 Meticulous planning and organisational skills – good eye for detail

 Calm, controlled and focused under pressure

 Managing challenging behaviour and social interaction issues

 Knowledge of social, cultural inclusion and diversity issues

 Assured, credible and confident presentation and public-speaking skills

 Relationship management – trust and consensus building with students, staff, management and other stakeholders

Career History

Coleg Cambria, Flintshire 2007 – Present

Lecturer in Electrical/Electronic/Control Engineering

Currently employed be a thriving, progressive college which offers a wide range of technical, business, vocational and community courses up to degree level. Lecturer in Electrical/Electronics/Control subject including mathematics and business systems on a range of courses.

Coleg Cambria employs over 1500 staff and provides a broad spectrum of courses for around 30,000 learners. Primarily responsible for teaching and developing a range of Electrical, Electronics & Control Engineering courses.

Responsibilities include:-

 Lecturing on the courses from the college programme

 Staff recruitment and selection

 Supporting and mentoring teaching staff continued

 Development of on-line teaching facilities

 Development of mechanisms for off-site specialist training for nationally recruited students including the development of websites/intranet/moodle and blackboard to aid learning and assessment process

 Course leader/Coordinator for Higher national courses

 Development and implementation of improved methods for students to monitor their progress remotely via password protected website, allowing access of information throughout North Wales.

External relationships

 Liaising with Glyndwr OpTic Technium management team to develop a strategic plan for the optical industry in England and Wales

 Liaising with industrial employers in North Wales and North West England to develop the Higher National certificate in control engineering

General Motors Europe Plc 1993 – 2007

Maintenance Engineer/Team leader Maintenance Division

General Motors Europe employs over 55,000 staff in nine European countries and manufactures a wide range motor vehicles, heavy goods vehicles and power train. Primarily responsible for scheduled systems maintenance and breakdown and repair management.

Responsibilities include:-

 Management of maintenance responsibilities

 Training junior engineers

 Staff recruitment and selection

 Staff development and progression

 Facility coordination and staff time management

 Work schedules and continuous improvement management

 Liaising with plant departments to maintain production schedules and achieving targets

Previous Employment

Metal Improvement Company Ltd Maintenance Engineer 1990 – 1993

Worked in the Middle East Maintenance Engineer 1985 – 1990

Other Areas of influence, Involvement and Achievement

Coleg Cambria

 Course leader/Co-ordinator for optical science and technology industry in conjunction WDA/Technium OpTic and Glyndwr University – successfully secured in excess of £250,000 of EU funding to develop this course

 Created and delivered on-site training courses for various companies including TATA steel and UPM

Personal and Professional Development

I have consistently demonstrated my ambition, determination and abilities by pursuing further training, development and progression throughout my career. I maintain a broad range of interests and skills that my position demands and welcome the opportunity for professional and personal development that challenging work offers.

Recent Continuing Professional Development

Liverpool John Moores University 2014 Membership of IET

Glyndwr University 2014 Post Graduate Certificate in Education

Coleg Cambria 2014 Internal Verifiers award (Compliance)

Deeside College 2010 Membership of the New Engineering Fellowship

Coleg Cambria 2008 Embedding Equality into the Curriculum

Education and Qualifications

Liverpool John Moores University 2014 BEng (Hons) Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering

Glyndwr University 2009 HNC Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Deeside College 2008 A1 Assessors Award in Education

Baghdad University 1986 BSc (Hons) Science & Physics