At UEES Ltd, I spent 5 years working on Continuous Improvement activities such as “OCC Circles” (more familiarly known as Quality Circles) and “Kaizen Events” (where teams were drawn from all areas of the business and tasked with improving a specific area, process or function.) This was either as a Leader, or as a participant. Here are some of the projects that I led:

I am Six Sigma Green Belt trained and have experience of Ford 6‐Panel Reporting as well as QOS

I was trained in Advanced Problem Solving at Coventry University, and am experienced in Experimental Design (Taguchi) and Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)

I also have experience of using Value Stream Mapping to understand WIP and information flows

As you would expect, I am also very familiar with the use of 8D, Toyota PPS, FMEAs, Control Plans, etc

I have worked in a number of Lean Manufacturing environments such as Unipart Eberspaecher Exhaust Systems Ltd; Brose Ltd; Faurecia and Johnson Controls

Brose Ltd was a Tier 1 supplier to Toyota and all working practices mirrored the Toyota Production System methodology

My MSc Degree Dissertation featured the use of IDEF‐0, where I modeled information flows within the Industrial Engineering department of an industrial engine manufacturer in Stafford

I have also used Value Stream Mapping on a many occasions

I was a member of the ERP Implementation Team at Birkbys Plastics Ltd, were I performed a general information gathering / auditing role, for approximately 3 months

At Unipart Eberspaecher Exhaust Systems Ltd (UEES Ltd), I spent 9 months on a secondment to the MFG‐Pro implementation team. My task there was to represent the Quality and R&D Functions and ensure that all appropriate menus and options were set up properly and were integrated correctly with the other functions (eg Finance, HR, Design, Purchasing, etc)

I have extensive experience of using SAP thanks to working for Brose Ltd and HPBO (UK) Ltd