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Tara Beard

Tonyrefail

Summary

With six and a half years of professional experience, I am flexible, trustworthy, and extremely driven. I Posses a keen sense of detail, am a clear thinker, have good communication skills, and am naturally competent at coordinating multiple tasks in demanding, intense work conditions. I’m a diligent worker who is dependable and committed to everyone. I exhibit exceptional levels of professionalism and self-control and have a track record of completing projects safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with policy requirements. I have outstanding interpersonal skills. I am an excellent team worker and am always keen and very willing to learn and develop new skills.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

SAFETY, TRAINING, Resource and Comms Manager

Openreach Ltd.
01.2002 - Current
  • Monitoring health and safety risks & hazards followed up raised near miss reports
  • Working alongside Managers in other areas to improve and monitor the health and safety standards within their teams
  • Helping to create and manage health and safety policies and monitoring systems
  • Ensuring all safety checks are up to date and rescheduled
  • Ensure all engineers had the correct PPE and were booked in to be tested and in date
  • Dealing with training demands
  • Ensuring engineers have the correct pathway training in place
  • Ensuring all license to work policies are briefed and knowledge is obtained
  • Managing emergency procedures and ensuring that they are in place for when one occurs
  • Reporting and presenting reports for Duty of care escalations (no sign Ons), Sickness, number of engineers who have equipment that are due or overdue testing, Vehicle accident reporting, expired photocard driving license, required/expired training and no shows
  • Completing End of week reports with pictures that have been sent from various parts of the company to showcase safety checks within teams, targets met and upcoming events
  • Booking and scheduling team events
  • Informative information via email notifying of changes or challenges when required
  • Calculating quarterly training budgets in accordance with training demands.

MUTLI-SKILLED JOINTER/CABLER

OPENREACH LTD
07.2018 - 01.2020
  • Apprenticeship training scheme structured to be a multi-skilled Network Investment Engineer within Openreach
  • NVQ Level 3 in Telecommunications, BTEC Award, various Key Skills, which I achieved ahead of schedule
  • In this time, I became very competent on both the copper and fiber networks due to the demand
  • Role Achievements: Selected to cover OMA and OM role within final year of apprenticeship
  • Selected to work away to help out other parts of the country on 12-day fortnights
  • Completed apprenticeship ahead of schedule
  • Participated in various service critical situations to restore customer service, such as a 3200 pair cut cable in Whitchurch, Cardiff
  • Nominated to attend many development conferences
  • Successfully gained overall ‘AS’ grading every year when completing buddying and working successfully with colleagues.

Transport compliance Manager

BLACKHORSE FINANCE
03.2001 - 11.2008
  • As the Transport Compliance Manager, I played a crucial role in ensuring the safety and compliance of a mixed fleet including HGVs, truck loader cranes, waste management tankers, and drivers within the South Wales region
  • I was responsible for liaising with depot’s throughout the region, ensuring vehicles are maintained in line with the Operator Licence undertakings and supplier agreements, keeping operational impact to an absolute minimum
  • I was also responsible for completing weekly compliance and KPI reports, highlighting performance trends and improvement opportunities
  • Taking charge of day-to-day planning and management of the region and trusted haulage partners.

clerk of works

Openreach Ltd.
01.2020 - 01.2002
  • Led FTTP (fiber to the premises) Build on the Chief Engineers Rural Build Final 20% Program within 3 Exchange Areas
  • Reported to The Project Delivery Professional
  • The primary tasks were completing FTTP surveys, enabling the build through completing complex Exchange and field engineering and ensuring the delivered structures were built to policy and quality standards through audit
  • Alongside offering to trail new technology
  • Worked with a mixture of direct labor and contractors to ensure the safety, quality and THP (Total homes passed) targets were met
  • Oversaw the engineering, auxiliary works, and planning (development stage) to set up and construct a 6000-home exchange area in less than a fiscal year, all while maintaining expenses within budget, all structures compliant with policy requirements, and all safety objectives fulfilled
  • Offered economical fixes for technical problems
  • Gathering data from several sources on different internal systems
  • Drove efficiency, quality, and safety with both direct labour resources and contractors
  • Throughout the project, performed routine CDM checks (safety checks) on the contractor and direct labour resource to make sure all employees were qualified, capable, and operating in a safe manner
  • Handling intricate High-Level Escalations (HLEs), complaints, funded projects, and rural builds from the very beginning of planning to the point of customer interaction
  • Coordinating and corresponding with Both DL and Contractor resource throughout the various build stages both within the exchange throughout to the external network to complete in flight safety and quality checks.

Education

1995-2000 Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen -

Level 3 Apprenticeship in IT Software Web & Telecoms Professionals - Openreach - undefined

BTEC National Certificate in Manufacturing Engineering DDDouble Distinction - undefined

NRSWA Unit 10 (S1) – Monitoring Sign, Lighting & Guarding (2018) - undefined

EUSR (Energy and Utility Skills Register) (2018) RENEWED EXPIRES July 2027 - undefined

Ongoingeducation

Currently waiting on a Princes2 Foundation & Practitioner qualification. Awaiting a confirmed date for the courses.

Personal Information

Driving License: Full

References

  • LLION ROBERTS, Llion.Roberts@openreach.co.uk, 07483974426
  • Rob Lloyd, Rob.Lloyd@openreach.co.uk, 07846980328

Computerliteracy

MSOffice, Excel, Outlook, Remote Workplace Applications

Timeline

clerk of works

Openreach Ltd.
01.2020 - 01.2002

MUTLI-SKILLED JOINTER/CABLER

OPENREACH LTD
07.2018 - 01.2020

SAFETY, TRAINING, Resource and Comms Manager

Openreach Ltd.
01.2002 - Current

Transport compliance Manager

BLACKHORSE FINANCE
03.2001 - 11.2008

Level 3 Apprenticeship in IT Software Web & Telecoms Professionals - Openreach - undefined

BTEC National Certificate in Manufacturing Engineering DDDouble Distinction - undefined

NRSWA Unit 10 (S1) – Monitoring Sign, Lighting & Guarding (2018) - undefined

EUSR (Energy and Utility Skills Register) (2018) RENEWED EXPIRES July 2027 - undefined

1995-2000 Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen -

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