Jack Wynn

During the factory move I excelled and was promoting to the engineering supervisor as it was recognised that I was very good at leading the team daily and never shying away from the hard moments. My new position required me to follow a day-shift routine as this meant I had the ability to liaise with the 6 engineers ensuring everyone has the same goal.

My new role responsibility's are as follows.

• All ordering of the spare parts
• Track & Record downtime and recognise trends to determine the root cause of issues
• Conduct training with apprentices ensuring they have the core skills
• Assist all team members on issues they may be facing
• Contacting and dealing with contractors
• Working very closely with the Head of Engineering & Facilities regarding future projects
• Ensure that engineering is following 6S effectively and is continuously improving
• Plan team members jobs ensuring they execute them
• Conduct team briefings daily to ensure a clear handover is taking place between the shifts

In this role I mainly focused on rectifying breakdowns on the machinery ensuring to carry out the work as safe and with as little disruption to operations as possible. I have gained vast amounts of knowledge on new machinery including Gallus, Omet, ABG, Pantec, Martin, HP, Bobst, Prati.

A huge event in this role was a factory move where we moved from our Glasgow plant to a brand new facility in Cumbernauld. This meant all of the machinery had to be moved and reinstalled. This required a lot of hard work and long hours ensuring each machine was meeting the operational timescale. This move allowed me to gain a wealth of experience as I was able to work with many different specialist and take as much knowledge as possible from them.

• On September 18th I began my maintenance engineering apprenticeship at Bell & Bain Ltd which is a printing company based in Glasgow
• My apprenticeship has been mechanically bias at the moment but becoming more multi skilled is something I am constantly pushing to achieve
• I have had the chance to work on a variety of machines ranging from KBA Printing presses, Heidelberg Presses, Heidelberg Guillotines, Heidelberg + MBO Folding units plus a wide variety of Muller Martini and Kolbus post press machinery.
• Working at this company has given me the opportunity to conduct different tasks on a wide variety of machines and equipment some of these being schedule & carry out planned maintenance, Fault finding, repairing machine breakdowns, identify broken parts and sourcing them and liaise with third party contractors
• Working here has allowed me to become extremely comfortable working on my own and working in a team.

• I gained valuable work experience working with an engineering company this was to help me gain some basic knowledge of how a field engineer worked and gave me a great insight into basic electrics and electronics
• This was a fantastic opportunity which made me extremely excited to get on the work ladder

• This part time job consisted of a daily delivery starting at 6am every day 7 days a week and required me to collect papers and continually monitor the customer's requirements as they sometimes changed weekly, at the end of the week I had to collect the money from customers and count before passing onto my employer.