Professional Experience
Reliability Engineer, John Crane Jan 2012 – April 2013
Part of a team of 5 people in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) who are responsible for investigating Reliability related problems with our Dry Gas Seals installed in a variety of turbo machinery made by OEM’s around the world like GE Oil & Gas, Siemens, etc.
• Carry out Root Cause Analysis (RCA) sessions with end users after a recent failure, to provide them with a technical report on the outcomes and effective solutions.
• Conduct site survey of rotating equipment and ancillaries to provide the end user with a report on possible improvements that could be made to increase service life.
• Comment on the returned condition of DGS when requested by customers to provide them with possible areas to investigate on site.
• Provide operational/technical assistance on Dry Gas Seals (DGS) to other service centres and clients around the globe, like BP, Shell, Aramco, Chevron, Total, Statoil
• To implement solutions found through RCA techniques into current/future applications to prevent re-occurrence in the future.
Mechanical Technician, Royal Air Force (RAF) Jan 2003 – Jan 2012
Numerous progressive roles within the RAF have contributed to developing my core technical skills set, as well as other key skills such as: Leadership, management, problem solving, using initiative, coordination, team work, time / change management as well as behavioural flexibility.
• A strong team player who has a proven track record of working across different cultures, languages and functions where there is co-dependencies.
• Competent with complex systems that utilise a variety of different actuating systems I.e. electro mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic.
• Mechanical maintenance, repairs and modifications to Heavy/ light vehicles and mobile plant machinery. From OEM’s MAN, DAF, Cummins, JCB, CAT, Scammel, and L/Rover.
• Experienced with compressed air, nitrogen and oxygen production equipment and its rectification.
• Inspection, testing and servicing of aircraft associated lifting tackle and hoists.
• In-depth fault diagnosis on a large variety of mechanical equipment down to single component failure.
Frequently act as ‘deputy’ in managing a team in the absence of the leader, resulting in being able to build trusting and long lasting working relationships.
Education/Qualifications
• Apollo Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Techniques
• Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming
• MAN Fault Finding Diagnostic tool
• National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 3 Mechanical Engineering (Distinction) – Royal Air Force (RAF).
• Business Technology Education Council (BTEC) in Motor Vehicle Maintenance (Merit) – South Devon College, Devon.
• National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 2 Information Communication Technology (Pass) Paignton Community College, Sixth Form, Devon.
• General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) – Paignton Community College, Devon. 7 subjects
Training courses completed
• Multiple ‘conversion’ trainings via the RAF for new and specialised equipment/vehicles
• Specialist Vehicle Conversion (SVC)
• Fuel blending equipment
• C & C1 (HGV) Driving Licence
• Full clean UK Driving License
• Equality and Diversity
• Quality Assessment
• Data Protection
• First Aid at work
