David Parker
Glanmire,Cork
Summary
Adaptive and motivated individual with a solid understanding of safety requirements and mentoring team members. Dedicated team player, proactive and hands-on, ensuring task completion. I have worked in extremely high pressure environments in different roles as a member of a team and as a team leader to achieve all targets set.
I believe my military, construction, manufacturing and managerial background have given me the tools to tackle any task and be successful. I enjoy improving work environments and systems/processes to get the most out of teams.
Overview
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Certification
20
20
years of professional experience
Work history
Senior operations manager
Glenmill Engineering
Cork, Cork
2021.10 - Current
- Manage 4 direct reports, 60-70 fabricators and welders, machinists, fitters, painters, drivers in a mechanical engineering environment.
- Ensure all targets are met to meet client demand, this can mean day and night shifts have to be introduced.
- Ensure all works are being done in accordance with company health and safety strategy.
- Manage material and component inventory levels to match works forecast.
- Lead a weekly meeting with design team, senior management to create a deliverable forecast and allocate resources.
- Interviewed, hired and trained staff, maintaining highly efficient teams.
- Established and managed relationships with new and existing suppliers to strengthen supply chain.
- Oversee all site activities including structural steel and mechanical installation through to handover.
Operations Manager
Parker Design Engineering
Watford , Hertfordshire
2019.06 - 2021.10
- Evaluated and resolved conflicts as well as addressed internal and external business problems.
- Proactively identified and solved complex problems that impacted management and business direction.
- Managed £700K+ rapid build of a 188T steel frame for a vaccine testing facility for public health England during the COVID 19 pandemic, 24hr working was required to achieve the results needed. The project was delivered 3 weeks ahead of the original target date. No accidents or injures occurred at any stage of the fabrication, transport or build due to safe working systems implemented by myself to accommodate the high tempo of works needed by the client. Over 50 people were on my team to deliver this project.
- Ensuring deadlines are met on multiple projects by leading weekly team meetings with in house management.
- Maintaining industry standard quality control checks on items produced in our factory.
- Responsible for Health and Safety standards in a working factory, this includes implementing new safe systems of work due to COVID 19 as well as updating and creating risk assessments and method statements.
Project Manager
Parker Design Engineering
Watford , Hertfordshire
2017.02 - 2019.06
- Determined project schedules and maintained timeline with proactive adjustments to workflow.
- Served as single point of contact for project scheduling and changes.
- Managed as many as 5 projects at once with budgets in excess of £500K.
- Forecasted labour requirements for projects weeks in advance and dealt directly with sub contractors to meet demand.
- Responsible for inspection and handover to commercial clients of all projects that were completed by my team.
- Motivate and improve morale of multiple site teams to achieve targets and standards set by the clients programme.
- Sustained safety protocols with proper, cost-effective and safe handling of equipment and materials.
Steel Erector
Parker Design Engineering
Watford, Hertfordshire
2014.07 - 2017.02
- Maintained exceptional health and safety standards on site, for optimised staff wellbeing and continued compliance with Health and Safety regulations.
- Ensured meticulous attention to precision and detail throughout installations, enabling high-quality results.
Royal Engineer
Ministry of defence
2006.10 - 2014.07
- Section second in command for 2 tours of Afghanistan in 2012 and 2014 of an 8 man team of Royal Engineers. Our primary task was to provide close combat engineer support to infantry companies. This included construction tasks and searching routes for other teams.
- Brigade level instructor at the school of armoured fighting vehicles for 1 year teaching vehicle crews how to fight from a different types of vehicles. This included running a machine gun range with up to 40 students per shoot during day and night training.
- Completed two 5 month tours in Canada and one 5 month tour of Kenya carrying out high tempo training.
Education
NVQ Level 2 - Plant operator mechanic
Royal school of military engineering
Chatham2008-07
A-Levels - psychology, Media studies, Business studies.
Bushey Meads school
Hertfordshire 2006-06
Skills
- Relationship management
- Multidisciplinary collaboration
- Manufacturing expertise
- High-pressure performance
- Results orientation
- Team collaboration
- Change management
Certification
IOSH managing safely (NVQ level 3)
CSCS site safe pass
Manual handling
Site supervisor safety training scheme
Site safety plus health and safety awareness
Full UK driving licence including category C+E
Timeline
Senior operations manager
Glenmill Engineering
2021.10 - Current
Operations Manager
Parker Design Engineering
2019.06 - 2021.10
Project Manager
Parker Design Engineering
2017.02 - 2019.06
Steel Erector
Parker Design Engineering
2014.07 - 2017.02
Royal Engineer
Ministry of defence
2006.10 - 2014.07
NVQ Level 2 - Plant operator mechanic
Royal school of military engineering
A-Levels - psychology, Media studies, Business studies.
Bushey Meads school