Mark Sheldon

Mark is a highly qualified engineer with over 30 years of experience gained in and around the aviation and automotive sectors. He has extensive knowledge and practical experience of Mechanical, Electrical and Avionic aircraft engineering system maintenance, encompassing electrical system fault diagnosis, automatic flight control systems, AC/DC Power supplies, radar engineering and airborne radio communications. After retiring from the Royal Navy Mark took on a challenging role within a new company as Lead Training Engineer in the automotive sector centring on a wide range of Electric Vehicle and Lithium-Ion Battery technology.

Currently

Mark is the Lead Calibration Engineer at DANA Axles. Mark can work effectively in high pressure environments with tight deadlines, both individually and as part of a team. His enthusiastic and personable manner has consistently inspired teams to achieve the highest of standards. Mark is loyal, reliable and trustworthy with an extremely strong work ethic.

LEAD CALIBRATION ENGINEER - DANA AXLES

(2022-10)

• Lead Calibration Engineer, solely responsible for over 5000 items of measuring instrumentation and equipment ensuring all tests are completed within the stated frequency period.
• Maintenance of Calibration Certification and traceability ensuring all testing is accountable to UKAS or ISO/IEC 17025 Calibration standards.
• Management of unrepairable items ensuring replacement items are sourced through external agencies removing the potential down time of production.
• Surface Finish checks on components ensuring potential failings of material are highlighted at an early stage.
• CMM operator on ZEISS Centermax and Accura Test Machines.
• Use of GAGETrak 6.8 and Compliant-Pro to monitor all shop floor gauges and measuring equipment/ instrumentation.

LEAD TRAINING ENGINEER - AVONSIDE SAFETY MANAGEMENT

(2019-05 - 2022-06)

• Planning, development, and delivery of over 80 Automotive, Rail, Aviation, and Lithium-ion Battery Companies, ensuring documentation is accurate to their specific Safety Management requirements.
• Provide guidance to delegates enabling them a greater understanding of legal documentation including Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, Management of Health & Safety at Work Act 1999, Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 relevant to their Company requirements.
• Produce comprehensive lesson plans for all courses ensuring they are up to date and individual to each company, achieved by working closely with outside agencies.
• The design of practical exercises for work on Lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicle component fault diagnosis and rectification from junior level to Senior Authorised Persons.

PETTY OFFICER - ROYAL NAVY

(1991-02 - 2019-05)

QUALITY SUPPORT TEAM (AVIATION POLICY AND COMPLIANCE) - RNAS YEOVILTON

(2017 - 2019)

• Accountable for 2nd party internal auditing of RNAS Yeovilton based Squadrons, Flights and Units ensuring compliance to ISO 9001:2015 principles. Audit outcomes on several occasions resulted in an improvement to customer regulatory compliance and increased efficiency and output of the business.
• Provided a mentoring role for customer managers. Best practices from previous audits were used, providing guidance and assistance to enable managers to run a more effective Quality Management System.
• Production of detailed and in-depth audit reports. Effective and articulate communication skills enabled delivery of professional technical briefings to senior management.
• Improved lean processes and procedures delivered to customer managers and staff as part of the auditing role. This enabled a more streamlined department and reduction of waste materials.

AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING SUPERVISOR - RNAS YEOVILTON

(2013 - 2017)

• Sole Avionics Engineering Supervisor with responsibility for ensuring the serviceability of 9 Lynx Mk 3 and Mk 8 Aircraft. This required effective delegation of personnel and the ability to prioritise workload.
• Responsible for ensuring all Avionics scheduled and unscheduled(corrective) maintenance and documentation was correctly completed prior to flight and for authorising the aircraft as serviceable for flight post maintenance.
• Mentor and Line Manager for 15 junior staff, providing tuition and guidance to ensure successful progression in their engineering development.
• Landing Point Commander, responsible for the training of helicopter winching and load lifting procedures to both Junior and Senior staff.

RADAR AND RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOP SUPERVISOR - HMS ILLUSTRIOUS

(2009 - 2013)

• Management of a team of 6 engineers providing 24 hours workshop availability to embarked squadrons for up to 8 aircraft.
• To provide maintenance servicing, testing and modification of all aircraft avionic equipment.
• Responsible and accountable for the safe custody of over 500 items of aviation test and calibration equipment and spares. Held on a personal loan with a total value of several million pounds.
• 2nd line electrical rectification of all Radio, Radar and Avionics Line Replacement Units (LRU’s).
• Planned and Corrective Maintenance carried out on LRU’s always ensuring maximum availability of equipment for Squadrons and Front-Line Mk 3 and 8 Lynx Aircraft
• Calibration of Aircraft LRU’s ensuring components met with Airworthiness standards for flight.
• Electrical Fault-Finding requirements of specialist equipment and replacement of unserviceable items to component level.

ROYAL NAVY

(1991 - 2019)

• Completed an apprenticeship in Aircraft Engineering covering Avionics, Electrical and Mechanical before specialising as a Weapons and Electrical Avionics traded Technician. Roles included Royal Fleet Auxiliary Naval Mechanical Support Unit, Technician on 702, 815 Naval Air Squadron’s & Weapons Engineer on HMS Illustrious.

BEng (Hons) - Aeronautical System Engineering (First Class Honours) - Staffordshire University

Foundation Degree with Distinction - Aeronautical Engineering (Avionics) - Kingston University