A producer of specialist cold rolled stainless steel and engineering steel strip, employing 400 personnel on two sites.

Operations Manager	(Aug 1997 – Nov 2003)
Operations Manager of the Meadowhall site. Managing a total of 140 personnel. Introduced lean manufacturing, pull systems and kanbans.
•	Devised, introduced and managed a pull system, in the finishing section for TRS material, reducing lead-time by 50% down to two weeks. (Increase sales by £3.4M per year)
•	Prepared, established and chaired, weekly quality Plan Do Review meetings, improving quality performance by 16%. (Reducing CoQ by £500K per year)
•	Organised, managed and completed a trial, of Q8 engineered rolling oil, increasing rolling capacity by 33%. (Increased sales by £240K per year)
•	Trained, empowered and managed team leads, to schedule their own work, increasing productivity by 14% and reducing labour costs by 18%. (£200K savings)
•	Sourced, developed and introduced, D2 grade slitting knives, reducing knife budget spend by 8% (£60k) per annum and improving product quality by 16%. (£400K savings)
•	Sourced, developed and introduced, D2 grade work rolls, reducing roll budget spend by 25% (£187,000) per annum.
•	Managed, motivated and empowered rollers, suggesting improvements to rolling practices, reducing of the cost of quality by £500,000 over twelve months.
•	Designed, developed and implemented, rolling to temperature procedure, improving product quality by 10%.

Quality Manager	(Nov 1993 To Jul 1997)
Quality Manager to Implement and manage the ISO 9002 quality assurance system. 
•	Developed, implemented and managed, quality management procedures, standardising business process and improving business efficiency.
•	Constructed, communicated and managed, quality department budget, increasing resources and improving product quality performance.
•	Procured, customised and installed, Zwick tensile testing machine, improving the accuracy of mechanical test results 