Account Manager

• Dec 2020 - Present

Technical Support Engineer

• Dec 2018 - Dec 2020

Machinability Technician

• Jul 2018 - Dec 2018

I am currently a machinability and x-ray diffraction technician at the AMRC within our machining group. My day-to-day duties include assisting and maintaining all aspects of the shop floor, including health and safety, machine maintenance, inventory and procurement. In addition, I am a CNC operator for current and future projects.

Advanced Structural Testing Technician

• Aug 2014 - Jul 2018

I am a Test Technician within the Advanced Structural Testing Centre department of the AMRC with Boeing. The AMRC with Boeing is a pioneering collaboration between academia and industry making it a truly fascinating place to work. My role involves producing in-house test specimens to international standards, operating and programming the department’s CNC lathe, as well as designing and producing custom jigs and fixtures to meet clients’ requirements. Furthermore, I am responsible for departmental health and safety including COSHH. My role has also given me the opportunity to produce technical engineering drawings and well as being responsible for the use of rapid prototyping machines.I enjoy the ability to be innovative and the ability to use my own initiative the role offers me. An example of this is working with a small family-run company in Sheffield which had the problem of guaranteeing the strength of the weld and the parent material of their reinforcing rings which were used for large grinding wheels. To prove this, we had to produce tensile specimens. The problem I was faced with was, how do you extract tensile specimens out of a ring? I was initially given the problem and set off within the AMRC to present my idea and work together with different departments and colleagues to find a solution. With the skills of the Design and Prototyping department and myself, we came up with the solution of 3D printed jigs and fixtures to speed up the process. From this, I modified the 3D printed jigs into a 3-step process making production more efficient, cutting the time from 2 hours for one specimen down to 15 minutes for two. This was all done to ASTM standards.