SHEQ

Education/Qualification

• Ongoing            SHEilds Ltd – NVQ level 6 Occupational Health and Safety
• 2024     Carbon Literacy Project 00108864
• 2024     Safeguarding Principles and Foundations C of E
• 2024     Safeguarding Against Domestic Abuse C of E
• 2024     Institute of Directors Company Secretary
• NEBOSH General Certificate level 3
• Woodward Safety Health and Environment Ltd
• 2021     Mental Health First Aid – St. John Ambulance
• 2019     IOSH/British Safety Council
• 2019     Duty holder responsibilities and structure
• 2019     Mental Health First Aid – MHFA England/St. John Ambulance
• 2007     IOSH/Bureau Veritas
• 2006     NEBOSH Level 3 Occupational Health and Safety
• CDM2015 Duty Holders and Responsibilities
• National Construction College
• International Standards
• IRCA Internal Auditor
• WRK (Genesys) Training Ltd
• Course A17658 certified by IRCA certificate no. EB‑037226
• 2014     ISO 9001 quality management systems
• Internal Auditor
• Bywater Training Ltd
• 2018     ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Calibration laboratory management requirements
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Learning Lean.co.uk
• Lean and Six Sigma Black Belt study of DMAIC and change management
• 2020     Lean Six Sigma Black Belt yd7RYatmyS Max Clarke 14‑04‑2020 Certification
• SAP Signavio Process Manager/Process Governance
• 2021     Modelling processes and structure to BMPN 2.0
• Integrated Systems Auditor (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001)
• QHSE Learning Centre
• 2021     Certificate no. 34329326
• Lead Auditor ISO 14001
• IEMA, IRCA, CQI
• 2021     Bywater Training Ltd
• IEMA Environmental Manager
• Associate Member 136001 Annual Renewal (now cancelled due to high cost)
• 1994     Blackpool and Fylde College – OND BTEC level 3 Engineering and Electronics
• 2003     Royal Navy – NVQ level 3 Engineering Maintenance
• ILM Level 2
• Institute of Leadership and Management

Systems used

• Microsoft Word and Excel

Key skills

• ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 9001, ISSO 5001, ISO 17025, ISO 17024, ISO 13485, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, PED, EUSR, ATEX, CE AND UKCA
• CQI IEMA IRCA Lead Environmental Auditing
• FMEA and HAZOP Studies
• Quality Management, Safety Management, Environmental Management, Calibration Management, Energy Management, Medical Devices, Product technical approvals, CompEx
• Corrective Actions and Continual Improvement, Lean 6 Six Sigma

Career Summary

Current Employer – Field of Engineering

Position – SHEQ Manager

Dates – January 2024 – Present

• Manage a start-up business achieve initial presence and certification to the high voltage electrical industry
• Leading the SHEQ function across multi-sites
• Hardtech HV Ltd the operational entity to achieve approval under the National Electrical Registration Scheme (NERS) for 11kV, 20kV and 33v installations and cabling with Lloyds Registers
• Ensure the company established compliance to the Common Assessment Standard with a new waste carrier license, Safe Contractor, CHAS, SMAS, Constructionline, Achilles, Avetta and REST NHS
• Signing the business up to social value schemes as a Disability Confident Employer and a signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant
• Commenced the move to a business for good with B Corp under the assessment protocol with B Lab working closely with business consultant AG Communications at Alderley Park. This involved additional training with Institute of Directors as Company Secretary and the Carbon Literacy Project for Environmental and Social Governance topics alignment to the UN SDG framework
• Develop the business system from scratch and implement 37 policy statements and a full management system to achieve recognition to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 with Approachable Certification as the certification body. This involved extensive customer facing work under NERS on construction sites in infrastructure development projects
• With changes in personnel, had to take on HR matters with the external consultant Altum HR and IT security matters for Cyber Essentials with onboarding a new IT security partner and develop a cyber security management system with policy, procedures and a security manual for 3rd party scrutiny and approval
• Had to define the strategic aims for competency assessments across the group and set up the employee and fleet managed systems in the ERP System (Odoo) as part of digitising company processes
• Set up the document structures in Microsoft SharePoint and following the System Engineering standard ISO 15288, the automatic document coding rationale and digital document control system. This is so when a project file or document is created or uploaded a new document control number is automatically assigned
• On a monthly basis producing board packs for common discussion, a kanban system for management task reporting and with the landlord attending a regular Health and Safety discussion forum for the network of small business and Alderley Park companies
• Contribution to the network being one of safety culture and people management strategies

Previous Employer – Waste Water Treatment

Position – QHSE Manager

Dates – April 2023 – January 2024

• Developed the standards for quality and safety in a research and development for water treatment using a niche electrolysis science approach
• Developed safety in a laboratory environment handling very hazardous chemicals and minimising pollution events and risk of explosion from by-products
• Development of the process approach and standardisation of HAZOP studies in projects to the point of sale to pharmaceutical process companies
• Most the work involved was at case study level to validate the technology and run research trials with university students
• Involvement in finding treatability partners in India and China in partnership with the commercial team. The company did not progress ISO approval status, therefore, personally took the decision to find alternative employment with the projects and commercial teams

Previous Employer – Process and Laboratory Instrumentation and Automation

Position – QHSE Manager

Dates – January 2015 – March 2023

• Quickly established a framework for integration of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and ISO 50001 to a combined management system with a suite of digital workplace tools
• Digitising the risk assessment system, the internal audit system and business continuity system
• Opened group side discussions on the concept of one quality management and one process management. This formed as a group wide forum for quality professionals like me with the initial 12 members from sister companies in 2015 and growing to 105 members from across different process functions in 2023
• The formal basis of competency and training became a central and qualifying requirement for bodies and entities to approve the position holder. For example, CQI or other quality management qualification and registration as a formally qualified auditor
• Process change management topics, standardisation for management system contents and six sigma for improvement

• Instrumental in getting the UK company re-certified to the new internation standards in 2015 and 2018 ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 50001 with the additional standard for calibration management ISO 17025 added in 2017 with UKAS coming on stream in services
• Digitised health and safety operational practices with onboarding the 3rd party compliance platform MY Compliance and reducing the administrative weight of service engineers. The practice of risk assessments by mobile access, tablet or laptop on one platform made it more transparent to the time when service engineers were supposed to sign to accept the risk with the client on site
• In 2016, Brexit and business continuity became a higher profile personal action or a 4 year period of transition, whereby, reported to the board of directors on business strategic actions for AEO licensing and risk mitigation using SWOT and PESTL analysis techniques. In 2020 and 2021 COVID rules then applied with business changing to remote working from 7th March
• Had to remain present in the business for lock down protocols to be managed and risk of contagion prevented from spreading
• Took personal responsibility for the company’s Manchester site and infrastructure during lock down with no support. Post-lock down the return to work strategy involved removal of several layers within the business which impacted the quality team personnel. I left Endress+Hauser at this point to work closer to home

Previous Employer – Wholesaler

Position – Quality Control and Health and Safety Manager

Dates – September 2013 – November 2014

• Resolved customer queries and complaints on fasteners and fixings through distribution networks (such as Screwfix)
• Challenged on six sigma improvements and 6S for safety behaviours by the warehouse team refusing to operate forklift trucks safely and keeping high bay racking clear of obstructions
• A unionised work force preventing teamwork plans
• External consultancy with NatWest Mentor helped relieve work pressures to encourage others to act positively with safety in mind
• A cost limitation strategy resulted in sales taking control of quality management and replacing the inspection team with costings impacting personnel

Previous Employer – Uk Manufacturer

Position – Quality Manager

Dates – October 2011 – September 2013

• Helped recertify the company to ISO 9001 and as the side business Dental Products to certify them under ISO 13485 for in vitro dental implants
• Achieved PED technical approvals for double block and bleed valve assemblies for BSI type approvals for products
• Supply chain standards for materials and forgings and bolting standards for test and inspection

Previous Employer – Executive Agency

Position – Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety Coordinator

Dates – March 2010 – October 2011

• Took on the RMI mining pumps Manchester and Armstrong Integrated Systems of Halesowen with the head office in Toronto, Canada and manufacturing centres in Buffalo New York and Chennai India and Shanghai, China as part of a global castings project
• Developed the six-sigma improvement strategy and embedded FMEA and root cause analysis ISHKAWA standards with the engineering team on warranty claims for seal failures
• Worked on partnership with Rod Darch Associates to achieve ISO 14001 and maintain ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001 certifications across all business units

Previous Employer – Energy Products

Position – Senior Technician R & D

Dates – September 2009 – March 2010

Previous Employer – Energy Services

Position – Electrical Technician

Dates – August 2008 – Septeber 2009

Previous Employer – Company

Position – Field Service Technician

Dates – January 2007 – August 2008

Previous Employer – Laboratory water brand

Position – Plant and Commissioning TechnicianDates – September 2006 – January 2007