Nathaniel Borthwick
Tamworth,UK
Summary
Accomplished professional with expertise in injection plastic moulding and design engineering, specialising in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. Demonstrates strong project management skills, with a proven track record in statistical analysis and root cause analysis to enhance quality assurance and control. Adept at planning and analysis, delivering comprehensive management reporting to drive informed decision-making. Committed to leveraging skills for continuous improvement and innovation within the engineering sector. Bilingual with expert fluency in French and English language. Technically proficient in VBA Macro creation, AutoCAD, TeamViewer, MS Office, 3DAnalyser and CATIA. Possesses excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical, and cross-functional skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
2017
2017
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Design Leader
Plastic Omnium (now OPMobility)
Tamworth, UK
01.2022 - 07.2025
- Realises and pilots the design, development and industrialisation of parts, products with adherence to timelines and quality standards providing constant and frequent feedback to all stakeholders and customers.
- Analyses the feasibility of initial customer styling surfaces suggesting changes and improvements where required to ensure a good parting line condition and paint and aspect requirements are met.
- Leads design of all internal part interfaces and assembly methods to best meet required specifications and customer agreements.
- Liaise with internal experts to optimize designs for DFM including injection, demoulding, paint, packaging and assembly ensuring Right First-Time approach.
- Ensures all parts can achieve the functional specifications from customer including testing concepts through 3D printing and prototype builds.
- Leads a team of CAD engineers throughout the development phase of the project, managing their daily workload and checking the output of their work.
- Leads frequent Design Reviews ensuring all inputs and outputs are received and validated by all stakeholders for each project milestone.
- Defines and formalizes with Engineering Project Manage and Injection Expert the tuning zone areas to be considered before final Tool-Go.
- Builds the geometry file with tolerance studies and creates all internal and external GD&T files for part, sub-assemblies and final assembly. All GD&T files ensured to conform to relevant standards including BS8888 and ISO 16792.
- Participates in the study and means validation of checking fixtures for production validation.
- Manages the daily technical flow of information and CAD according to internal and customer standards.
- Participates in tool trials and Root Cause Analysis during first builds and customer builds until plant takeover at PPAP and production launch.
- Proposes design modifications after tool-go through CAD creations to be validated by project.
- Proposes Lessons Learned to be used for future projects to reinforce Right First-Time approach.
- Constant communication with customers and external suppliers during development and industrialisation of project, including site visits when necessary.
Geometry Engineer
Plastic Omnium (now OPMobility)
Lyon, France
09.2017 - 01.2022
- Validated tolerance commitment for RFQ to support technical file creation.
- Validated measurement scenario in accordance with customer expectation and finalised gauge designs.
- Generated and/or validated contents of tolerance stacks and DVA Analysis.
- Lead the tolerance stack definition for complex and innovative projects.
- Liaised with experts at central technical centre to resolve complex scenarios and meet customer expectations.
- Estimated budget (hours and costs) needed on global geometry scenario to ensure dimensional convergence on project.
- Supported project core team when negotiating feasibility of complex tolerance stacks internally and with customer at onsite and offsite locations.
- Participated in measurement report analysis and troubleshooting if non-conformity arises to ensure dimensional convergence from start to PPAP.
- Ensured that DVA tools and methodology were used correctly within project perimeter.
- Consolidated short-term and long-term dimensional capabilities from production plants and sub-supplier components to improve tolerance calculation tools and strengthen internal tolerance database.
- Emphasised on best practice and highlighted any room for improvement; so as to feed into lessons learnt (methodology, design, cost reduction, plant KPIs).
- Key Accomplishments
- Upgraded the excel sheet used to capitalise plant data and employed Microsoft VBA to automate the sheet, achieving faster results for analysis.
- Design lead for Jaguar Land Rover L481 Project Rear Bumper Assembly.
Front of House Officer
Discovery Point in Dundee
Dundee
03.2016 - 09.2017
Customer Host
Gala Bingo
05.2015 - 03.2016
Cleaner
University of Dundee
Dundee
06.2014 - 09.2014
Fundraiser
Dundee
05.2014 - 06.2014
Labourer and Builders Apprentice
09.2008 - 09.2012
Education
BEng (Hons) - Mechanical Engineering
University of Dundee
Baccalauréat General Série Scientifique - undefined
Lycée Louis Audouin Dubreuil
Skills
- Injection Plastic Moulding
- Design Engineering
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
- Project Management
- Statistical Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
- Planning & Analysis
- Quality Assurance & Control
- Management Reporting
Projects
- Led a project to design and develop a tensile testing machine to test a new embalming method.
- Design Lead for Jaguar Land Rover L481 Project Rear Bumper Assembly.
- Design Lead for Jaguar Land Rover L460 Facelift Project Front and Rear Bumper Assemblies.
Languages
English
Native
French
Fluent
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Design Leader
Plastic Omnium (now OPMobility)
01.2022 - 07.2025
Geometry Engineer
Plastic Omnium (now OPMobility)
09.2017 - 01.2022
Front of House Officer
Discovery Point in Dundee
03.2016 - 09.2017
Customer Host
Gala Bingo
05.2015 - 03.2016
Cleaner
University of Dundee
06.2014 - 09.2014
Fundraiser
05.2014 - 06.2014
Labourer and Builders Apprentice
09.2008 - 09.2012
Baccalauréat General Série Scientifique - undefined
Lycée Louis Audouin Dubreuil
BEng (Hons) - Mechanical Engineering
University of Dundee
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