Manufacturing Improvement Engineer
NSG
Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months
NSG
Manufacturing Improvement Engineer August 2011 - current
The NSG Group is one of the world's largest manufacturers of glass and glazing products for the building, automotive and specialty glass markets. Working in On Line Coatings I am responsible for engineering process improvements at sites across the world. The systems that I am making improvements on are used for developing and applying new added value functional coatings on glass, examples can be found in the building products and solar industries.
Areas of responsibility
• Understanding all product quality requirements and ensuring process that equipment is operating correctly and in a safe manner.
• Ensuring that the appropriate systems and procedures are in place to meet or exceed customer quality expectations.
• Lead any continuous improvement activities from design to commissioning and transfer experience from other coating lines when appropriate.
• Train personnel in operations related to any newly designed or implemented processing in equipment
• Sitting on a technical design panel, involved with the development and improvement of coating and process machinery.
• Work in conjunction with the I.P. department on developing I.P. for any new process design or equipment used with the coating system.
Pilkington Architectural
R&D and Process Support Engineer April 2008- August 2011
Pilkington Architectural design and manufacture structural glazing systems for industrial architects and owners of bespoke buildings. I held a position in the research and testing laboratories, designing new products and providing design calculations for façade engineers.
Key Responsibilities
• Design of bespoke test equipment and instrumentation cable of determining the performance of structural glazing systems
• Stress analysis of the Pilkington planar product range using FEA methods (Ansys), hand calculation, fracture analysis and experimental analysis.
• Component design and drawing using Autodesk Inventor.
• New Material durability analysis and integration to the product range.
• Implementation new manufacturing processes both in house manufacture and external manufacture.
• Auditing external manufacturing faculties
Other areas of work
Test Engineer ERAE Ltd 2003-2008
Telecommunications Operator Royal Signals 1998-2003
A large amount of valuable experience was gained in both of these positions, work included active tours of duty in the forces and extensive testing to British standards as a test engineer. My work was undertaken in multiple countries using and learning many different work and communication skills, these can be discussed at greater length as required.
The University Of Bolton - 2006 - 2009 BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering Classification 2.1
Royal School of Signals Bournemouth Poole and Dorset LSC- 1998 - 2000 Telecommunications apprenticeship HM Armed Forces. Industry based courses • Ansys FEA Analysis Focus course - Wilde FEA • Auto desk Inventor - In house training • Strain gauge analysis - Vishay Strain measurement • Bolt Science and applications - Bolt Science Ltd Key industry Skills • FEA • 3D design and 2D engineering drawing • Strain gauge analysis • Microsoft Office including Excel, word and power point • Strain gauge analysis