Experience

imageHOLDERS

• United Kingdom
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Engineering & Product

  • Feb 2023 - Present

• Product Manager

  • Oct 2021 - Feb 2023



Blatchford

• United Kingdom
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Development Engineer, Head of Development Hub

  • Jan 2017 - Oct 2021

  • Head of the Development Hub function within Blatchford, forming part of the senior leadership team, reporting to the Director of Research & Technology. Demonstrates strong leadership across the business and overall accountability for the department function.• Be commercially aware and have a good understanding of internal structure and how we impact other departments and vice versa.• Direct and lead of targets, workflow and objectives to ensure a productive and effective working team. Use good leadership and project management skills to achieve the company objectives and maximise budgets.• Manage, lead and continuously improve a multi-disciplined rapid & agile new product development hub, which consists of a Model Shop, Metrology Lab and Assembly\V&V Lab. • Management and development of an internal team of 3 Development Engineers, 1 Process Engineer and 1 Development Technician who I mentor and asses through educational bodies.• Created and developed external third-party relationships.• Develop and implement operational procedures, inform team of procedural updates, and ensure they meet compliance requirements.• Ensure that adequate systems, procedures, and controls are in place within the Development Hub function; drive, develop and implement engineered product prototypes.• Project champion, new MPC product• New product implementation teams - act as development\prototype lead, technical detailing, advising and delivering.• Provide customer support team with technical information and guidance, aid technical report activities, technical training of precision assembly technicians. • Heavily involved in the development of new platform technology for future products.• Conduct off site human factor studies for new product development alongside medical professionals.Certified SoildWorks user, part and assembly creation.Key R&D Activates1. Designer and developer of MPC Hydraulic Orthotic Knee Joint2. Joint patent holder AM Ti hydraulic manifold Show less

• Development Engineer

  • Jan 2015 - Jan 2017

  • Development of prototypes and new products, supporting project champions in the delivery of products into the market. Engineering Authority for product precision engineering departments worldwide. • Analysis design intent to mitigate technical risk pre-product introduction.• Develop and implementation of assembly operational procedures, inform team of procedural updates, and ensure they meet compliance requirements.• Creation of criteria for product assembly build, testing and traceability information.• Collaborate with educational institutes, universities and engineering partners. • Setup and run new product development workshops to aid the transition from development to production.• Support and mentor team apprentice.• Design & Development, qualification and implementation of the tooling and assembly production process.• Support and generate reports for customer technical support team.• Perform risk assessments daily.• Design and develop tests rigs and fixtures for the R&D test laboratory, creating V&V reports.Creation of R&R gauges to analysis production efficiencies and cost of quality.Certified SoildWorks user, part, assembly and drawing creation. Show less

• Pre-Production Engineer

  • Oct 2010 - Jan 2015

  • A member of the NPD and NPI team.• Develop and produce the pre-production (first batch) of new complex products and provide the conduit to enable a defined and controlled handover process into production, this includes the definition of the assembly production processes. • Engineering authority for all assembly and complex assembly departments worldwide, UK, DE & US• Provide support for the complex and basic assembly department operations• Design & Development, qualification and implementation of the tooling and assembly production process• Supporting project champions in the execution of pre-production batch development• Assisting in the documentation of tooling, process controls and BoMs (Bill of materials)• To provide best practice assembly processes for new products using LEAN principles, for example 5s.• To provide tooling, fixtures and jigs for the assembly section and team.• Responsible for Carbon Fibre tooling and implementation of new products• Responsible for foot section tooling and implementation of new product and equipment• Design, Develop, implement tooling, fixtures\Jigs and production processes at EMU (elastomer manufacturing unit)• Assist process engineer in Carbon Fibre, EMU and Foot section on new processes• Engineering team lead in new products pre-production implementation team meetings• Support project designers in execution of pre-production batch development• Train and educate production operators and assembly technicians on new products and assist in product handover• Document tooling and process controls with post design department and production manager• To provide best practice assembly process for new products and control documents• Responsible for creation of procedures\work instructions and assembly processes• To provide fixtures for the CMM machines as required• Provide Product VQS (visual quality sample) and QIP’s to QC departmentCertified SoildWorks user, part, assembly and drawing creation. Show less



HOWE ENGINEERING (UK) LIMITED

• United Kingdom
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

• Mechanical Engineer

  • Sep 2002 - Oct 2010

  AutoCAD, TurboCAD and SolidWorks - NPD,NPI, part design, development, metrology, testing, commissioning and maintenance. AutoCAD, TurboCAD and SolidWorks - NPD,NPI, part design, development, metrology, testing, commissioning and maintenance.