Shift Engineer Operator - KP Snacks Teesside - Billingham, UK
(2024-04)
Support production by maintaining equipment, solving faults and driving improvements—keeping our site safe, efficient and running smoothly.
- Ensuring operations of machines covering quality and process checks.
Maintenance Lead - KP Snacks Teesside - Billingham, UK
(2022-03 - 2024-03)
As a Maintenance Lead, played a pivotal role in the production line team. Worked as a Maintenance Engineer for an area and part of a leadership team of 3 (Process Lead, Maintenance Lead and Line Lead). Responsible for overseeing and delivering defined engineering processes within area, primarily designed to reduce machine stoppages and ensure the correct level of asset care and maintenance strategy is deployed to each equipment item.
Led and coached the entire area team to deliver true Autonomous Maintenance. As part of the leadership team, reviewed losses within the area, developed action plans and delivered sustained improvement results. Provided crucial resource to ensure correct level of engineering capability was achieved within the team to progress zero loss journey.
Played a key role in delivery of improvement initiatives along with larger capital projects for area. An excellent coach and motivator with significant, demonstrable experience in this area.
- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling DMs (Daily Maintenance) for the lines
- Review of all breakdowns and deploy the appropriate countermeasure to prevent reoccurrence.
- Oversee the Maintenance Planning for area
- Provide updates during DDS (Daily Direction Setting meeting) to review breakdowns and Maintenance plans from the last 24hrs
- Prepare and lead the scheduling of the maintenance work for the next week during the weekly maintenance meeting
- Work with other Maintenance Leads to support the Progressive Maintenance (PM) Pillar by updating key KPI's and attending Pillar meetings.
- Prepare the schedules for monthly maintenance work as dictated by the annual maintenance plan and as previously identified during the monthly meeting
- Assist the Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Pillar by building capability within daily management systems. Examples include C.I.L's (Clean, Inspect, Lubricate), Defect Handling & Centrelines.
- Developing coaching plans to improve area team's capability to deliver the correct levels of maintenance.
- Providing a structured and appropriate development plan for apprentices enabling them to maximise their full potential in line with Apprenticeship Standards requirements.
- Arrange rosters on a weekly basis for 5 engineers.
Depot Manager - Arriva Traincare - Tyne Yard & Scarborough, UK
(2017-09 - 2022-03)
Responsible and accountable for managing all Operational, Safety, Quality and Environmental activities in addition to all associated personnel.
- Leading, supporting, motivating and directing the depot team to deliver the planned maintenance priorities as defined and agreed with the customer (both Trans Pennine Express and Bombardier Transport).
- Ensuring that site safety is managed and maintained in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act, ATC Rules and Regulations and COSHH.
- Ensuring that depot processes are managed and maintained in accordance with ISO 9001 certification, Environmental standard ISO 4001 and OHSAS 18001.
- Leading and reviewing the development and maintenance of the depot, in line with the ATC policy of continuous improvement and drive continuous improvement innovations.
- Leading and delivering the annual depot budget preparation and budget forecasting.
- Implementing and maintaining safety systems, production efficiency and quality outputs.
- Establishing safe system of works in accordance with relevant customers, businesses or legislative standards.
- Ensuring compliance with Competence assessment's (CMS).
- Carrying out Safety Tours, ensuring work locations are fit for purpose and compliant with relevant standards.
- Supporting the bid team as required with input to support potential new work opportunities and contracts.
- Providing exemplary customer service via the implementation of customer requirements.
- Ensuring all work undertaken is in line with customer, technical and legislative standards and specifications.
- Understanding and recognising new stakeholder opportunities and maintaining existing stakeholder relationships.
- Delivering pro-active customer management identifying and developing possible opportunities on maximising revenues and cost savings.
- Participating in contract reviews and liaisons, on all customer contracts on behalf of ATC.
- Mentoring and Coaching Team Leaders and Team Members.
- Dealing with employee relations.
- Responsible for creating weekly rosters for 30 staff at both locations.
Fleet Maintenance Manager - North East Metro Operations Limited - Newcastle, UK
(2017-04 - 2017-09)
As below but not under a concession agreement.
Fleet Maintenance Manager - DB Regio Tyne & Wear Ltd - Newcastle, UK
(2015-02 - 2017-03)
Responsible for the planning and maintenance of the Metrocar fleet ensuring that it is made available in a safe, clean and reliable condition for the operation of the Metro Concession. Ensured that all maintenance carried out complies with those elements of health, safety and environmental legislation that relate to Metro Engineering and all associated company standards.
- Managing the train lease and Nexus infrastructure vehicle contract.
- Management of Key internal and external stakeholders.
- Responsible for the Maintenance and Capital Maintenance (Asset Renewal Programme) budget.
- Responsible for implementing the maintenance plan at depot level.
- Responsible for the maintenance of all depot plant including wheel lathe, jacks, overhead crane, etc.
- Ensure the completeness of all records and maintenance carried out on vehicles and components i.e. vehicle examination documentation, equipment change sheets, etc.
- Ensure Metrocars and other rolling stock (Battery Locomotives, Wagons, etc) is maintained to current standards. This includes scheduling and control of planned and unplanned maintenance taken from Maximo (electronic maintenance database and asset register).
- Establish and review performance standards and ensuring that these standards are consistently achieved in line with the Quality Management System in order to maintain ISO 9001:2015 accreditation.
- Ensure that Maintenance operations are conducted in accordance with national and European legislation and standards. Ensure that necessary means to manage, measure and review safety performance by all staff and instituted across the Maintenance Department using modern maintenance practices and processes.
- Establish and review Environmental Management System (EMS) practices to ensure depot compliance with waste management systems, energy consumption, etc.
- Emergency Standby/call out duties - all aspects of fleet engineering failures and rolling stock derailments.
- Assist in managing the interface between Metro and Network rail with regard to standards of fleet.
- Attend and represent Fleet at Joint Performance and Train Fleet Meetings with Nexus.
