Nigel Walker

Supervised a team of up to 6 staff during the installation and maintenance of new or existing equipment such as a new produce section or bakery department or even a full rip out of old equipment and installation of the new equipment which includes the check outs and tobacco kiosk. All new equipment has to be built on site, leveled and wall and floor fixed. Position includes working with store and project management asd facilitating a SAP report on completion of the job. Clients include Tesco, Asda,Morrison's, Sainsbury's and B&Q amongst others

Running a 2 man shell and auger percussion drilling rig doing bore holes and site investigations.

Often working away from home on various projects which included clients such as Seven Trent Water and Capita Simmons. The position included taking geological samples from various depths to find out if there was any contamination in the ground before a new housing project could begin for example or locating how deep the natural bed rock was when erecting a new phone mast.

Managed a well known independent record store in Manchester for 7 years before eventually opening a shop of my own in Leeds.

This included the day to day running of the stores,stock control, stock orders, ticket outlet, opening and closing every day, cash handling and banking, dealing with record company reps and interacting with members of the public on a daily basis.

Learning to build and maintain fuel tankers as an apprentice working in the aluminium shop but occasionally in the steel shop too. Went to whitwood engineering college in Wakefield on a day release basis one day per week