Experience

Equipment Support Company
• United Kingdom
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Design Engineer

  • Sep 2018 - Present


MSF Technologies

• United Kingdom
• Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Mechanical Engineer

  • Apr 2017 - Sep 2018

  Designing and developing the next generation of power management solutions for the hybrid and electric vehicle, energy storage and energy distribution markets. Next generation power management and storage for use with all renewable technology. • Developing mechanical solutions to support the high efficiency energy systems, from generation to storage, conversion or management. • Designing and developing the new generation of electric motors and controllers • Working closely with the electronics team to find cost effective packaging • Working using Solidworks. • Engineering Lead of the Project team setting up and implementing Solidworks PDM Show less



Airbus Defence and Space (Space Systems, Inc.)

• 700 & Above Employee

• Mechanical Design Engineer (Contractor)

  • Nov 2015 - Apr 2017

  Working within the MGSE and Tooling department providing bespoke or ‘off the shelf’ aids for the manufacture, lifting and transportation of the flight hardware.• Required to design, purchase and test equipment to fulfil production and transportation requirements.• Responsible for the development of the production facilities and layout, to maximise production.• Assess the design and schedule requirements of the production requests.• Produce CE Documentation, User Manuals and Safety Assessment Reports.• Manage multiple projects ensuring that all achieve the required standard.• Working using Catia V5, AutoCAD, Inventor, Sprint, Teamcentre, Windchill and Pandora.• Supervise and provide training to junior and apprentice engineers working within the team. Show less

• Mechanical Design Engineer (Contractor)

  • Mar 2015 - Oct 2015

  Working within the ‘Engineering Support for Manufacture’ to provide design support to all areas of production. This requires to support on all areas of manufacturing including external supplier, mechanical components, thermal elements, electrical installation and propulsion system.• Required to develop design solutions to repair with minimum mass and maximum stiffness.• Assessing concessions for design acceptability with an awareness of the associated impact on cost and schedule.• Produce technical written dispositions and presentations that clearly explain and justify the design rational for repairs and concessions to persons of both a technical and non-technical nature• Attend and represent design department at internal and customer facing reviews.• Suggest Manufacturing improvements to ensure any issue are not replicated.• Working to tight schedule, weight and cost constraints.• Working using Sprint, Teamcentre, Windchill and Pandora.• Supervise and provide training to junior and apprentice engineers working within the team. Show less



Self Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Design Engineer

  • Aug 2006 - Apr 2015

  Specialising in, but not limited to, all types of press tool designs, including warm-form tools and automation, for automotive industry. Working within a group of 5 design engineers with shared responsibility for obtaining work and project managing. • Responsible for the design of Press Tools and jigs/fixtures using Catia V5 and UG NX8. • Required to develop BiW Panels to maximise the production utilisation. • Involved in the costing of the work and submission of quotations and timelines. • Delivering completed designs to customer standards and deadlines. • Quality control on final designs to ensure that they are to the required standards. • Working for the OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. • Staff management and the creation of company policies Show less



PALFINGER Ratcliff Ltd

• Design Engineer

  • Jan 2002 - Aug 2006

  Responsible for the design of Tail-lifts with extra responsibility for the ‘Special Equipment’; which relates to the bespoke designs to exact customer requirements. • Responsible for the design of ‘Special Equipment’ lifts to customer specifications. • Required to liaise with customers regarding their requirements. • Required to liaise with manufacturing to ensure customer specifications a fulfilled. • Responsible for the administration of the engineering software. • Programmer for “Eden”, a rule based configuration software. • Training staff of upgrades to engineering software and Eden • Design components and updating drawings in relation to Engineering change notes. • Using Solidworks, Cosmos, ME10 and Smarteam PDM system Show less



A&J (Tooling) Design

• Design Engineer

  • May 2000 - Dec 2001

  Designing press tools and jigs/fixtures for the automotive industry Design using AutoCAD Designing press tools and jigs/fixtures for the automotive industry Design using AutoCAD



Milcutt Engineering

• Production Scheduler

  • Sep 1998 - May 2000

• CNC Programmer

  • Aug 1997 - Sep 1998

• Apprentice CNC Programmer, Setter and Operator

  • Aug 1993 - Aug 1997