Engineering Manager with 22 years Experience

To further my professional career with an executive level management position in a world class company.

A solution-oriented and team-focused Mechanical Engineering Manager with 22 years’ experience in mechanical and offshore engineering management environments gained in various oil & gas sectors; adhering to engineering procedures and Health and Safety protocols (QHSE responsibility). Assures adherence to agreed protocols, methodologies and engineering best practices. Brings to the fore transferable specialist expertise in mechanical and offshore engineering management best practices; projects designed safely within budgetary and timescales constraints; product development cycle from concept to product launch, evaluation of performance. Focused leadership and people management skills; Health and Safety performance; project management methodologies and tools; quality management systems and stakeholder management. A strong leader and relationship builder with personnel, stakeholders and vendors, trusted professional with a dependable reputation within strategical alliances. An influencer supplying Subject Matter Expertise (SME) with specialisms in assessing technical capability, design solutions and the development of transformation roadmaps. Assessing change readiness, and is driven towards results in relation to project change initiatives, delivering set objectives on time and within budgetary constraints, achieved through the increase of employee adoption and usage.

BEng (Hons): Mechanical and Offshore Engineering (1992 – 1996)
The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

HNC: Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1987 – 1988)
Jewel and Esk Valley College, Edinburgh

I am a solution-oriented and team-focused Mechanical Engineering Manager, and I bring transferable knowledge and specialist expertise in mechanical and offshore engineering management best practices, business change, planning, controlling and closing projects, delivering solutions. You will note from my CV, substantial work experience in focused leadership and people management skills and improvement project initiatives. Highly proficient in maintaining outstanding working relationships with multidisciplinary teams and I communicate effectively on all levels.

I have skills and specialisms, such as the following: Product development cycle from concept to product launch, evaluation of performance and hands-on when required, delivering reliable engineering solutions and team and project management strategies in line with Health and Safety performance. I have best-utilised project management methodologies and tools; quality management system; alongside budgetary and timescales constraints. I am very methodical in assessing technical capability, design solutions and the development of transformation roadmaps. I can be best described as highly organised and focused on safe project delivery, planning, controlling and closing projects.

I possess a proven ability in ensuring that standards, policies and communications are clearly understood and implemented correctly; I have spent many years solving root cause problems and providing achievable solutions.