Richard Parsons

• Management and co-ordination of cross geographic teams in UK, Italy & Poland of 200+.
• Technical troubleshooting & problem solving across all Leonardo products. Focus on knowledge sharing of best practice, common design, lessons learnt and innovation.
• Resource planning and personal development of all Structures Designers and Sustaining engineers. Strategic growth of sites and geographies, with associated management of multiple external resource suppliers to balance capability & delivery with long term permanent team growth.
• Management of Sustaining engineering teams across fuselage build and final assembly build lines for all build deviations and in service queries.
• Development of people & creation of department processes & tools in conjunction with short to long term strategies for growth.
• Cross geographic harmonisation of processes across all products.

Key process highlights:

• Educational task costing tool, covering the end to end life cycle of activities from design, analysis, test, certification.
• Design review adherence assurance process.
• Department business control training & planning templates.

• UK Transformation focal point for Engineering. Looking at improvement initiatives across all areas of UK business.
• Engineering NEXT focal point for UK Engineering. Looking at improvement initiatives across Engineering cross geographically.

Key activities/achievements:

• Cross geographic harmonisation of build line deviation management via UK adoption of the NI process.
• Engineering hardware improvement roll out to enable reduced instability and increased efficiency.
• AW101 baseline aircraft product configuration investigation to enable reduced product cost and shorter lead times as a methodology of aircraft design & manufacture.
• Cross functional area support with the evolution of business control, planning, costing, resourcing, risk reduction, interface dependency management.

• Management and co-ordination of a multi-disciplinary team of 120+
• Scoping, planning, costing, budget, risk, resource control & technical delivery oversight for all UK Structures activities across multiple aircraft platforms.
• Senior management presenting & reporting.
• Stakeholder collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Program Management.
• Structures signatory area approval for all UK Structures deliverables covering design, analysis & certification.
• Strategic development of people & department process. Focus on harmonisation of processes across products and performance improvement of KPI's.
• Health & Safety responsibilities as building manager.

• Management and co-ordination of a multi-disciplinary team of 40+
• Scoping, planning, budget, risk, resource & technical delivery control for all AW149/AW189 activities.
• Cross geographical stakeholder collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Program Management.
• Structures signatory approval for all deliverables covering design, analysis & certification.
• Continued airworthiness for in service aircraft.
• Certification authority (EASA) engagement.
• Engineering representative with customers.
• Strategic development of people & department process.

• Management of multi-disciplinary delivery of all activities covering design/analysis/certification with permanent and external resource teams.
• Cross geographical stakeholder collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Program Management.
• Engineering representative troubleshooting at customer bases globally.

• Design of AW149/AW189 primary/secondary structure, special equipment, interiors & role fit kits from clean sheet of paper to first prototype through to initial Type Certification.
• Design and Task management co-ordination of large complex new design activities. Utilizing CATIA V5 & VPM for sheet metal, machining & composite designs, via concurrent design process with manufacturing in dynamic high intensity problem solving environments.
• Specialist Check signatory approval for design deliverables.
• Authorised Technical Expert (ATE) signatory for aircraft deviations.
• Management of large external sub-contract teams.
• Co-ordination of all analysis & certification deliverables.
• Methods development for the implementation of Digital Manufacturing on AW149/AW189.
• Coaching of junior/senior engineers in a mentoring capacity.

• Design and Task management co-ordination of medium size activities, with small teams of permanent and external sub-contract resources.
• Check signatory for design deliverables.
• Assisted junior engineers in a mentoring capacity, boosting team productivity and learning.

• Working on the EH101 product, applying my foundation of aircraft manufacture into Engineering design. Completing structural design activities across various contracts and areas of aircraft structure & special equipment.

• Mechanical aircraft fitter working on the Super Lynx build line, assembling various sections of aircraft fuselage and installing fuel systems.

• 5 Year Craft Apprenticeship, moving around various placements within Operations, gaining experience in both Mechanical and Electrical manufacturing disciplines.
• Super Lynx Fuselage Build, EH101 Final Assembly, SAAB 340 Nacelle Build, Cable Harness Manufacture, Site Maintenance, Avionic Rig Manufacture.
• 1st year spent at Yeovil College completing basic fitting course including measuring, turning, milling, grinding, filing, drilling, sheet metal manufacture and assembly & welding.