John Kelly

• Enforced health and safety requirements for worker protection, keeping accidents and company liability at minimum.
• Led recruitment of manufacturing staff members, overseeing selection, training and performance new employees.
• Delegated tasks efficiently to promote team productivity.
• Set up a C.N.C section, learnt how to use and operated those C.N.C's (Niles slant bed Lathe/ Sinumerik control, Hurco / winmax control and briefly a unknown Chinese lathe/ until a suitable operator could be employed)
• Run the ISO9001 system including sitting in with the auditor once a year.
• Assessing and Quoting jobs.
• Sourcing and ordering materials needed.
• Drawing items to be made on a simple C.A.D system
• Dealing with internal discipline issues

Day to day running of the workshop and organising work amongst the workforce.

• Organised team workflow, working within agreed budgets and schedules.
• Completed routine maintenance on all workshop machinery, enhancing operation efficiency.
• Maintained workshops by arranging tool and stock maintenance and repair of equipment for best value.
• because we are primarily a repair workshop i would assess what would making, who would do it and how we would go about it.
• maintained all micrometers and measuring equipment.
• operate manual lathes up to 5m long(Tos, Colchester, Binns and Berry and DSG), horizontal borers(Kearns Richards 75), Hurco cnc miller

• Ran product conformance testing with attention to quality.
• Removed faulty products and parts for repair or recycling.
• Used precision meters and measurement tools for accurate testing.
• Recorded findings of inspections using established practices.
• During this time I was also machining parts on various machines throughout the workshop

Worked as machine tool mechanic visiting various customers up and down the country repairing various lathes/borers etc

general machinist, webster bennett vertical borer, Kearns Richards horizontal borer, DSG 4 mt lathe, colchester 3m lathe, c.n.c flat bed lathe with a fagor 5055t control, slotter both nodding and draw type. capstan lathe

assessing and repairing hydraulic rams using band saws, 4mt lathes, radial arm drills, milling machines

operating large honing machines(currently still in use at robinsons precision engineering formerly Shepcotes) , and the smaller upright honing machines. operating large center lathes