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Lead New Product Integration Project Manager
RenishawLead New Product Integration Project Manager
May. 2022 - Jul. 2025• Built and led cross-functional engineering teams to establish a new additive manufacturing facility, delivering a £6M cost saving while achieving strategic business objectives. Oversaw recruitment, training, and upskilling of engineers to ensure long-term departmental capability growth. • Served as senior interface between C-Suite, directors, and engineering teams, ensuring alignment of technical delivery with strategic business priorities. • Directed resource allocation across multiple concurrent projects, balancing utilisation and profitability. • Improved project document turnaround time by 56% by introducing automated processes and best practice training. Developed a structured engineering knowledge base to upskill design teams.
Owner and Director
Undrunk LtdOwner and Director
Jan. 2021 - Mar. 2022• Founded and scaled an alcohol-free drinks subscription service, later sold after 18 months. • Managed supplier relationships, branding, digital presence, and operational processes
Engineering Manager
RenishawEngineering Manager
Jul. 2020 - May. 2022• Designed and implemented standardised working practices across a multi-site national division, enabling faster root cause analysis and reducing downtime. • Delivered cross-divisional projects that doubled production capacity, improved product performance by 20%, and reduced quality costs by 25%. • Led a £1.4M project to replicate and improve a robotic assembly cell, increasing capacity by 200%, reducing support time by 10%, and lowering monthly quality costs by £3k
Senior Process Improvement Engineer
RenishawSenior Process Improvement Engineer
Jul. 2020 - May. 2022• Designed and implemented standardised working practices within a national multi-location division. Created procedures for best practice when performing quality investigations and guidelines for proactive idea generation using key production metrics and implementation methods. This enabled different teams performing the same function to follow a standard process, resulting in faster root cause analysis, reduced production downtime, and more focussed benefit reporting. • Led and delivered cross-divisional projects that doubled production capacity, improved product performance by 20% and reduced quality costs by 25%. These projects included duplication of assembly processes, value stream mapping and line balancing. • Led a team of engineers and technicians to replicate and improve a robotic assembly cell for a miniature electro-mechanical optical encoder with a budget of £1.4M. I delivered the project on time and within the agreed budget with my forecast resources; the implementation of this new robotic cell increased production capacity by 200%, reduced engineer support time by 10% and reduced quality costs by £3k/month.
Production Manager
RenishawProduction Manager
Jul. 2018 - Jul. 2020• Managed a multi-disciplinary department of 80 supervisors and operators to manufacture high-complexity optical encoder products. • Oversaw orderbooks averaging £1.5M per month, implementing short, medium, and long-term resource plans and contingency strategies. • Coordinated cross-divisional taskforces to resolve supplier and production quality issues, reducing costs by 23%
Production Engineer
RenishawProduction Engineer
Dec. 2011 - Jun. 2015• Developed and delivered innovative new assembly processes and maintained current processes to ensure production targets and key metrics were met for the company’s flagship product. • Applied Six Sigma and DMAIC principles to identify and resolve manufacturing issues
Pro Sports Coach - Shooting Instructor
Wellington CollegePro Sports Coach - Shooting Instructor
Apr. 2010- Deliver structured coaching to students aged 13–19, with a strong emphasis on firearm safety, discipline, and core marksmanship skills. - Mentor young athletes throughout their sporting journey, fostering personal growth, resilience, and confidence both on and off the range. - Develop tailored training programs designed to nurture talent and encourage long-term participation, with the goal of retaining at least 20% of students in the sport beyond school. - Provide career-long guidance, with many former students progressing to represent their county, country, and even Great Britain at competitive levels.
Apprentice Gunsmith
HPS TR LtdApprentice Gunsmith
Jul. 2006 - Jul. 2008• Produced precision rifle components using manual and CNC machining, ensuring quality standards were met. • Supported clients with technical advice on ballistic components and provided after-sales servicing

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