David Harris

• HSE - Responsible for ensuring that all manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture are in full compliance with Health, Safety & Environmental Standards and meet expectations
• Product Safety - Responsible for ensuring that product safety risks are understood and mitigated to meet the required safety levels and reduce the safety risks so far as reasonably practicable. Champion product safety and promote a product safety culture
• Quality - Ensuring manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture within the business and suppliers are developed and deployed to support Right First Time manufacture. Coaching the community in the use of RRPS, DMAIC and Systems Engineering tools. Ensuring compliance with all relevant company, legislative and technical policies and standards
• Technical Authority - Specify Manufacturing Engineering and process requirements, making technical decisions in relation to the business. Chair the Control Authority(s) governing change for areas of accountability, subject to appropriate delegation
• Requirements - Identify, synthesise and locally govern the requirements for improvements and innovations in manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture. Prioritise and promote the launch of new projects based on business case
• Create strategy - Lead the technical input into the facility or supply chain strategy, including ensuring that Commodity and Manufacturing Process strategy implications are included in relevant capital plans. Integrate Manufacturing Technology, Digital Manufacturing and Product Introduction activities within the business
• Planning - Deploy mechanisms to govern the achievement of Manufacturing Engineering deliverables, report status, and ensure issues and risks are resolved to meet project timescales. Manage Man Eng load/capacity plans and budgets. Nominate PI Component Lead for all PI parts
• Develop capability - Buy-off the production readiness of new manufacturing capabilities or methods of manufacture for new parts and assemblies. Develop numerate, real-time methods for capturing process capability, and ensure it is available and acted on within the facility/supply chain and in new product design
• Deploy capability - Ensure manufacturing processes and/or methods of manufacture within the business and suppliers are capable of meeting and continuing to meet requirements for quality, cost, delivery rate and lead time. Co-ordinate the technical support to operations and suppliers such that problems and arisings are resolved in a structured and timely manner
• Minimum standards - Working with the Manufacturing Engineering Commodity Leaders and Manufacturing Process Owners, and where applicable with the suppliers, drive manufacturing processes towards identifying consistent best practice
• Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing - Operate as an active member of the global Manufacturing Engineering leadership team, proactively supporting cross-business collaboration, knowledge sharing, skills and process development to best utilise the available resources to deliver business needs and priorities
• Develop talent - Act as professional leader of the Manufacturing Engineering community within the area of accountability, ensuring required competences are in place and promoting the development and growth of the community. Drive accountability and enablement through engagement and coaching team members, so that everyone can be at their best
• Build external relationships - Manage, develop and maintain effective relationships within internal and external supply chain, ensure the requirements are understood and maximised, coach when required to deliver a successful outcome in line with the requirements and commitment of Rolls-Royce.

• All technical support within the finishing cell

• All M.E production system areas

• Continuous Improvement

• Driving improvements within the finishing cell to reduce scrap and improve lead times

• Method improvements saving over £100k on Pegasus and BRH

• A team of 17 Manufacturing Engineers

• The full technical package across DEA

• All technical improvements

• The in load of new/reactivation projects within Double Ended Aerofoils Plant

• Manage project plans in line with agreed timescales

• Co-ordinate and lead the team of PI engineers • Co-ordinate tasks between NPI team and Manufacturing Engineers

• Create and present Product Introduction monthly reviews to Manufacturing Manager, Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Production Planning & Control Manager and Production Leaders

• Liaise with Design, Purchasing, Logistics and external suppliers to ensure projects are running according to delivery plan

• Working with APQP and implementing PPAP across a full range of projects

• Working in NPI team within SEA, implementing and developing new commodities within Inchinnan

• Tyne Turbine

• WR21

• XWB 97k Stator 5

• T900 EP3+

• TP400

• Implementing PPAP and working as a Customer Authorised Representative (CARe) for DEA

• Development of Forge automation cells

• Implementation of new automated graphite lubrication system within automation cells

• Delivered a structured control plan to guide operators through various automation problems

• Increased furnace soak time from 40Mins to 3Hrs for Inco 718 within Inco forging cells with potential cost savings of £256,000 annually

• Increased final stamp forging temperature form 1010⁰c to 1040⁰c for Inco 718

• Joint winner of first compressor cost award for work carried out across TP400 £4000 ESV saving

• Joint winner of 2nd Compressors cost award for Implementation of new Nimonic 105 method of manufacture, developing methods of manufacture never used on Nimonic 105

• Forge technical lead for the purchase of the new Lasco multi-forge

• Providing cell support for the largest and highest volume cell within Inchinnan. The area I supported consisted of on average 75 personnel, 45 part numbers, 3 material groups, 2 manual cells and 2 automated forging cells. The combined manufacture of these cells varied from 8,000 to 14,000 parts per week