1. DAVID THOMAS VICKERS
62 ABBEY PARK WAY
WYCHWOOD VILLAGE
WESTON
CREWE
CHESHIRE
CW2 5NR
01270820553
daxsir33@hotmail.com
Personal statement
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I am a conscientious and professional person with an extensive experience in railway repair and
manufacturing in a railway engineering work place. I have experience in people management, health
and safety,lean manufacturing techniques, as well as 34 years railway repair as a manager and on
the tools. I am friendly and get on with people easily.
Key Skills
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• Time served apprenticeship in mechanical engineering EITB awarded 1984.
• BTEC ONC in Mechanical and production engineering awarded 1985.
• Team leader training with 8 years experience.
• Health and safety training and experience.
• Fire warden training and experience
• LEAN manufacturing training and experience ( using 5S, TACH time, KANBAN)
• SIX SIGMA training
• Good people skills.
• Experienced in time management of teams and product output.
• Quality management training
• Risk assessment training by Connaught
• Working hands on using mechanical biased skills.
Employment History
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TEAM LEADER BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION
2006-2015
Achievements and responsibilities:
• Ensuring the management of HEALTH and SAFETY of a team and area (Health and safety
walks, COSH DATA, Risk assessing,team training, fire warden, checking and purchasing
teams PPE)
• Leading a team to produce a quality product on time and in a safe manner.(Daily team start
up briefs, training talks, managing team time and clockings, performance management)
• Ensuring a quality product is delivered by attending and being involved in regular quality
meetings feeding back quality issues and helping to come up with containments, correction
and improvements. Using KIAZAN events and involving the team in using their LEAN training
and experience.
• Achieving on ON TIME DELIVERY in ensuring the customer gets his product back in the
agreed time scales. (Material chasing, attending material meetings, ordering tooling, commu-
nicating and assisting Engineering and quality teams to overcome any issue that holds up
production). Managing the team to be in the right place doing the right tasks to use man hours
to the TACH time.
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2. • Continuous improvements of team and section ( using 5S and LEAN manufacturing tech-
niques, facilitating meetings with relevant parties i.e. site services, engineering. Health and
safety, team members,)
• Using my people skills to help my team members with any personnel issues or work issues.
• Ensuring my team work together with zero tolerance to drink and drugs, racist ,sexual ha-
rassment or bullying behaviour.
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Mechanical fitter - manufacturer Bombardier
1980-2006
• Repair of railway rolling stock using SOPS, DRAWINGS, Route cards.
• Producing a quality product on time in a safe manner.
• Using PPE, COSH DATA, Risk assessment to do a task in a safe manner.
• Working alone or in a team to achieve targets.
• Behaving in a conscientious and professional manner.
• Shift working
Education
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College/School Name
DANEBANK COLLAGE CREWE 1980-1985
BTEC ONC IN MECHANICAL AND PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
School Name
COPPENHALL HIGH SCHOOL CREWE
1975-1980
MATH O-LEVEL GRADE D
PHYSICS O-LEVEL GRADE D
MATH CSE GRADE 1
ENGLISH LANGUAGE GRADE 1
ENGLISH LITERATURE GRADE 1
PHYSICS CSE GRADE 2
COMMERCE CSE GRADE 2
OFFICE PRACTICE CSE GRADE 2
TECHICAL DRAWING CSE GRADE 4
TYPING CSE GRADE 4
METAL WORK CSE GRADE 4
Hobbies & Interests
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I am involved in helping local football team MARY DENDY. I became involved with them while watch-
ing my two sons play for them. I have helped run numerous teams that my sons have played for over
the last 20 years.
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3. I have always had an interest in the USA and since 1999 I have visited Washington DC,New
York,Philadelphia,Atlantic City,Denver.Atlanta,Savannah,Seattle,Chicago,Las Vegas,San Fransisco,
Los Angles, and Hawaii.
I have two king Charles Cavaliers and enjoy walking them. I am a keen on Apple Mac’s and all Apple
products.Over the last few years I have enjoyed going to watch stage musicals. I am a movie and TV
buff.
I have an interest in ART my current favourite is Kerry Darlington, I am also keen on the work of Sarah
Ewings and Kealey Farmer.
My favourite artists of the past are Edward Hopper and John Henry Waterhouse who’s painting The
Lady of Shalott is my favourite painting.
I am interested in collectables and anything Marilyn Monroe related.
References
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References are available upon request.
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