Brian has a broad range of manufacturing and management experience gained from working with some of the worlds leading manufacturers from the Automotive and Aerospace Industries. He has a wealth of experience of successfully implementing Lean Methodologies into a wide variety of manufacturing environments and achieving significant business improvements in productivity, product quality and cost reduction. Brian has been responsible for managing people and products in both High Volume and High Value manufacturing in multi million pound businesses.

His career began in 1979 as an apprentice Toolmaker at a leading electrical connector manufacturer based in Hampshire. His role included the manufacture and maintenance of high speed precision press tools, mould tools and special purpose machinery.

In 1989 Brian joined a 1st Tier automotive engine components supplier as a Production Engineer and progressed into Product Development and Prototype Engineering. He became involved with business improvement teams in association with Nissan UK and underwent SDX supplier development training before heading up several successful improvement projects using Kaizen techniques.

Following promotion to Production Manager for Special Assemblies in 1992, Brian was tasked with setting up a new production facility to manufacture suspension and axle assemblies to supply Jaguar Cars, Unipart and Aston Martin. During the development of a new product range in 1995, he was further challenged to set up and manage an additional new production facility using automated robotic technology and single piece flow to manufacture high volume stainless steel fuel rail assemblies for Bosch, Vauxhall and Delphi.

In 1998 he was recruited by a leading aerospace company as Manufacturing Manager and assumed responsibility for the supply of OEM engine components to Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney and GE. Having received extensive training in Lean and Continuous Improvement Techniques by a leading Japanese car manufacturer, and also by UTC experts at ITO University, Canada, Brian successfully coordinated and implemented many business improvements utilising Lean methodologies and problem solving teams.

During March 2003 Brian joined the Engineering Employers Federation as a Consultant working as part of the World Class Performance team to deliver the SEEDA Lean manufacturing programme. The programme included the development, delivery and facilitated implementation of Lean Techniques and managing rapid improvement workshop events at many companies in the South East of England.

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