Profile

My role is all about making the product as quick and easy to put together as possible, ensuring that quality and safety standards are kept to.

Part of this involves automation for the boring, repetitive jobs or jobs which pose a safety risk to people. So in other words, I get paid to buy and play with robots! 

My day can vary, on average through the year I’m deal based 70% of the time, and on shop floor or visiting equipment suppliers the other 30%. 

Usually I start my day checking up on emails to make sure I’m up to date, when there issues or delays I’ll then pick up the phone and call around to make sure we have a plan on how to solve the problems. 

Some days I’ll head straight to shop floor because I know there’s a new product being built which I need to check is going together well, or there’s some new equipment I need to test, or problems I need to fix with current products and equipment. 

I’ll typically spend a few hours each week on CAD – either modelling some new tools to be printed on our 3D printer, checking over the latest design releases of the product and making sure we’ll actually be able to make them, or working on our area layout in 2D CAD to fit in new equipment or minimise the amount of time people are wasting walking from one machine to the next. 

Other times I’ll be preparing and delivering presentations or in meetings discussing how the business is getting on and what we can do to make it even better.