Career Review
Production Engineer (Current)
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, Messier-Services MRO, Gloucester, United Kingdom
• Identification of improved process tools and procedures (kaizen).
• Management of non-compliances, corrective action on quality escapes (8D analysis) and quality improvement actions.
• Leading development of tooling requirements including design, maintenance, reliability and repeatability.
• Assisting with specification of new machine and process tools.
• Supporting standardisation of operational documentation.
• Exploring and identifying best practices.
• Technical review of documentation including SBs, ADs, CMM updates and process specifications.
• Co-ordination of new repairs and concessions.
• Auditing (internal and supplier).
• Internal work procedures, QCP compliance, product, scrap review support.
• Maintenance and development of current and new capability.
• OEM, supplier and customer interfacing.
• Process ownership.
Graduate Engineer (1.5 years)
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, Gloucester, United Kingdom (including three months in Messier-Dowty Ajax Toronto)
• Created report layouts to allow floor inspectors to submit concessions.
• Shop floor work in Gloucester: gear stripping, inspection, machining, NDT, etc.
• Assembly and disassembly of gears, both on-site and with Aircraft-On-Ground in London Luton Airport and Devon, UK.
• Product description documents for Eurofighter, BAE146, Tornado, & P180.
• Eurofighter and BAE146 modifications.
• Handling Technical Events for Customer Service Engineering.
• Customer Service Engineering projects; development of repair reference documents, temperature indication paint testing, measurement of thickness of bogie beam beneath stop pad for A330/A340
• Tooling design of scraper to be used by Surface Treatment for testing of paint coupons.
• Capital Expenditure and evaluating purchase of a new CNC machine for regrinding cutters.
• Standardising CF-18 repair layouts for NLG and MLG in R&O of Ajax and designed a program to filter this data into manageable quantities.
Intern Mechanical Engineer (9 months)
2M Engineering, Veldhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
• Designing and testing of hermetic packaging for an Electric Doubled Layered Capacitor (also known as a SuperCapacitor) for use in camera phones.
• Testing specific conductivity of high concentrate battery acid.
• Certifications from the EU on Rules on Hazardous Substances (EU Directive 2002/95/EC).
• Technical and electrical drawings (using SolidWorks) for experimental apparatus and tooling.
Education
Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (2012 – present)
Continued Professional Development to CEng (P.Eng equivalent). Expected 2015/2016.
University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland (2008 – 2012)
Honours Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering
Heywood Secondary School, Republic of Ireland (2002 – 2012)
Honours Leaving Certificate (equivalent to a Canadian Diploma or 4.5 British A-levels)
Languages
English (native), Irish Gaelic (advanced), German (intermediate), Afrikaans (intermediate)
