Experience

Hadley Group

• Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Research And Development Engineer

  • 2016 - Present

  • Product development, digital prototyping via 2D/3D CAD & FEA simulation. • Product optimisation for value & performance. • Mentoring in the use of linear FEA stress analysis & non-linear FEA / NASTRAN in the engineering/machine design team. • Creation of the company PPAP quality documentation in pre-production (Design records, change requests, Process Flows, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA/GR&R & Capability) leading to successful customer audit. Three strategic customer captures by development towards supplier quality PPAP requirement. • Organisation of internal and external test programmes for compliance to material & product specification. Interpretation of specification when change is required both upstream (material/grade selection) and downstream (engineering change requests). • IP generation; inventors review of patent specification & claims. Demonstration of benefit to customer to enable IP monetisation. • Interpretation of GD&T in review of complex customer drawings. NPL trained to Level 1 & Level 2 in GD&T under the ISO system (BS8888). • Metrology specialism. Capex Justifications, Programmer & Trainer in the use of metrology technology such as a Hexagon Portable CMM Arm / PC-DMIS; use on Faro Ion Laser Tracker / CAM2. • Statistical analysis specialism. Data collection and data driven decision making within the company Six Sigma / Lean engineering & operational excellence theme. • Job specification / new hires, mentoring new members of team and indusrially based academic associates Show less



Swansea University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Engineer (EngD)

  • 2010 - 2015

  • Development of novel high temperature test methods to accelerate materials development. As part of the Roll Royce University Technology Centre. Small scale tensile and creep test development to rank / screen out best performing material and process.• Focus on the testing and characterisation of repair material; laser deposited (3D printed) jet engine metals, Superalloy IN718 and Ti64. • Electron microscopy, EBSD, failure analysis and experimental techniques.• High attainment the EngD Taught Technical/Professional Training Element.• Promoting study in engineering by completing STEM & outreach activities. Show less

• Test Engineer

  • 2010 - 2014

  • Full-time test engineer employed by the newly formed Swansea Materials Research & Testing test house at Port Talbot and Swansea University - Providing UK based materials testing capability to Rolls-Royce under ISO 17025 certification. • High temperature tensile, creep, fatigue, high cycle fatigue/vibration and crack propagation tests for a wide range of engineered jet engine and land-based gas turbine materials through early TRL/MCRL development.• Training & assisting visiting doctoral students to enable the generation of test data for their own studies. Show less