Aeronautical Engineering, Project, NPI, Test Manager

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Skills keywords: engineering, test & commissioning

Short Bio:

Apprenticed aerospace engineer, now an experienced and qualified Engineering Manager; majority of experience gained in Aerospace, with occasional diversification into other highly regulated industries.
Experienced Project and NPI manager to Prince2 methods; cognisant of detail; works to the bigger picture.
Proficient & proven man manager; up to 20 direct reports.
Mechanical engineering comfort zone with capabilities and experience in Electro-mechanical, Electronics and Software.

Current location:  England, United Kingdom - View on map

Nationality: British

Preferred Sector of Employment:  accounting and finance, Manufacturing and Operations, other

Spoken languages: english, French (very rusty)

Location I am interested in working: Anywhere

Qualifications:

BSc (Hon’s). Engineering Business Management 2:1

ONC (MoD equivalent)

5 year Apprenticeship: Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical).

CAREER HISTORY

2013 – 2014 Eng Consultant – Controls & Data Services (Contract) Birmingham

Supporting the Engineering Test Manager.

Predominant tasking in this role; to create product Safety Reports for the development of existing test rigs, new rigs in development, and the new Test Facility Site relocation planned for 2015.

Additional functions conducted as requested.

Function:

Engineering Test Transformation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Chairing HAZOPs for Test Facility installation at new site including the report.

• Authoring:

o Hazardous Area Zoning report for Test Cell installation at new site (ATEX, DSEAR)

o Hazardous Zone Classification guidance manual

o Guide to Supply of Machinery Regulations/Machinery Directive

o Defining NPI Procedure for Engineering Test; new Test Rig introduction

o Authoring Safe Systems of Work and Safety Case

• HP air dependency mitigation, moving forwards to installation at the new site

• Safety investigations for new fuel heating equipment

2011 – 2013 Project Manager – Edwards Vacuum (Employed) Somerset

Reporting to the Engineering Manager.

Flagship project for the design and build of an Integrated Vacuum product, servicing the micro-electronics (micro-chip) manufacturing industry.

Project value: circa 5M€.

Function:

Project Manager (Integrated Systems).

Responsibilities:

• The development of an integrated system to provide vacuum and process abatement (making process gases chemically safe) to micro-electronic manufacturing industry. The system converts toxic, pyrophoric and other gases used in these processes to ensure they meet legislated standards for subsequent release into the atmosphere, or other disposal.

• NPI and Project development; taking the core product (every machine is bespoke) from concept to market.

• Planning, coordinating and progressing all aspects of the mechanical and electrical design, production and build of bespoke variations of the core product to customer specifications.

• Technical & logistical support of inaugural commissioning for integrated systems

• Support of 180+ machines (pre-release sales).

2006 – 2011 Project Engineer – Airbus UK (Contract) Bristol

Reporting to the Fuel Test Facility Lead Engineer.

Project engineering the design and build of a full sized Fuel System Test Rig to create a facsimile of the entire internal wing structure and fuel system. Functionality included environmental replication: pitch, altitude (pressure simulation), temperature extremes.

Project value: circa 5M€.

Function:

Initial: Project management

Subsequent: Lead Test Engineer (A400m Fuel Test).

Responsibilities:

Project management:

• Project Management to Prince 2 ideology

• Design Specification to Rig Requirements.

• Design progress to meet build schedule.

• Manufacturing sequencing and monitoring to meet build schedule.

• Phased build schedule to meet aircraft test programme requirements.

• Legislation compliances

• Liaison with system component designers & suppliers (Global).

• Risk and Safety analysis (Design Risks, HAZOPs, FMEA, Safety Systems).

• ATEX, DSEAR and other industry legislation compliances.

• Manpower planning and co-ordination.

• Rig test, commissioning and development.

• Phased Commissioning with system level entry into service.

Lead Test Engineer (A400M)

 Liaison with system design engineers.

 Test Rig product test development; authoring method statements (SSoW) and test procedures.

 Test team selection & pre-test briefings.

 Test conductance, data analysis, and compilation and writing of Test Result reports.

 A400M test rig technical solutions and system development to encompass component development.

 Test Rig maintenance, calibrations, and functional validations.

 Meeting aircraft program deadlines.

2002 – 2005 Commissioning Manager (London and South) Siemens (Employed) Staines

Reporting to the Regional Contracts Manager.

Responsible for the commissioning of major Fire Alarm systems; Projects included Canary Wharf, BP Sunbury, MoD Whitehall, BBC (Portland Place and White City), and the TAG McLaren Technology Centre at Woking.

Achievements & highlights:

Developing and installing management systems to simplify and accurately predict commissioning resource demand, thereby creating capability to pre-recruit in sufficient time to complete 6 month training and supervised familiarisation.

Successfully taking dissident field engineers to engaged team members.

Reducing the management of the commissioning dep’t to a 3 day week

Gaining the invite to tender for the Service Level Agreement for Sellafield A, including Security.

Given a project management role to supplement the time (Portfolio at redundancy notice: 8 concurrent projects to £175K+.

1997 – 2002 Commissioning Head of Department (Employed) Blakell Europlacer) Bournemouth

Reporting to the General Manager.

World Class high-speed electronics production line equipment manufacturer. This is a low volume high technology manufacturing environment.

Achievements & highlights:

Promotion to Hod within 6 weeks of starting.

Running a small team of up to 7 skilled engineers.

Regular visits with the French design department gained a smattering of French.

1995 – 1997 Test & Installation Manager (Employed) Kestrel Design Bournemouth

Reporting to the Managing Director.

Specialist Telecommunications and data transmission equipment designer and manufacturer supplying to the Rail industry.

Achievements & highlights:

Developed plug and play Automated Test Equipment (ATE) for all PCB types.

Developed equipment for solo line testing during installation.

1992 – 1995 University Bournemouth

Full time Student, gaining a 2:1 BSc (Hon’s) degree in Engineering Management.

School – 1992 Aircraft Mechanical Engineering Artificer (Technical Supervisor) (MoD (RN))

Highlights:

 A 5-year aircraft mechanical engineering apprenticeship, followed by maintenance, workshop and operational support of military aircraft at supervisory/manager level, for all mechanical and electro-mechanical equipment.

 Penultimate 5 years of RN career spent working in a hi-tech environment, carrying out full power testing and analysis of gas turbine engines.

 The final 5 years spent working in a small but intense mobile team environment as part of a specialist joint service field based structural repair unit (MARTSU), having global responsible for the recovery and repair of aircraft declared AOG (Aircraft is grounded until repaired).

Additional Qualifications: HAZOP (Chairman)

Health & Safety Management (IOSH)

Numerous management (Leadership, Change Management, Time Management, etc.)

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