Patrick Jones

Leading a team of Maintenance Reliability Engineers and Automation Engineers across the A320 and A220 programs.

Currently manage two MSP (Maintenance Service Providers) to ensure the safety and reliability of all jigs, tools, machines and GSE.

Manage a budget of circa $5m for A320 and $3m for A220 per year.

Delivery of AOS bricks through coaching and development of the shop floor teams.

Defining and deployment of the industrial maintenance strategy, including asset criticality, KPI tree, Asset care plans and future FMEAs.

Integrated into various levels throughout the whole FAL, L2 - L4.

I am responsible for the deployment of maintenance strategy for new production line and hangars with new technology deployment such as the light flex track robots.

Lead the FU.IN.07 process through EASA Audits with Zero findings.

Focused within the central maintenance and cyber security team in the central manufacturing engineering team based at the Airbus central entity, Toulouse.

Industrial maintenance focal point for Broughton, Filton and FAL USA, where I supported the HO industrial maintenance to deliver and mature their maintenance process.

AOS brick owner for TPM and Non-OEE for the whole of Airbus, globally and regularly coach and advise plants on the AOS brick deployment.

Vast network across Europe and the USA in the industrial maintenance world and regularly exchange with multiple plants and FAL's to help mature their maintenance systems.

Worked transnational, supporting the areas under my scope with all maintenance methodologies, such as PQME, Maintenance Maturity Assessments, FU.IN.07 audit prep, Make vs Buy strategy, In Situ maintenance specification creation and validation and Reliability Centered Maintenance studies.

Production process manager within the A350 structure facility in Broughton. Lead a team of skilled operators and primary operators who build aircraft structures in a fast paced, high pressure manufacturing facility.

Responsible for the on time, on cost and on quality delivery of the aerospace structure whilst championing safety for the immediate and wider team.

Coached the team of primary operators on how to feedback to their operational colleagues on the 'right first time' approach.

Performance managed the team and conduct all HR aspects such as disciplinary, restore performance, medical capability and all sickness absence issues within the team.

In addition to direct reports, lead multi functional teams of manufacturing engineers, quality line side and health and safety teams in ongoing production issues through practical problem solving techniques to ensure root cause is identified and prevented from recurrence and deliver side projects to continuously improve the production line.

Responsible for tactical planning of production schedules set by the planning team and ensuring that all milestones are met. Succession planning and scouting for future talent to ensure that the future of the business is protected.

Responsible for a team of skilled maintenance electricians and fitters to provide support to the automation assets that build aerospace structure.

Responsible for the higher risk activities such as working at height, confined space entry, fault finding on live electrics, working on chemical plant equipment and many more.

Accredited with a NEBOSH that has given me the knowledge along with the practical experience of being a maintenance electrician in my previous role, to ensure that my team, and the impacted people in the immediate vicinity were suitably protected.

Reported to senior leaders of the business and worked with them to adjust planning to ensure minimal disruption to production.

As part of the maintenance manager role, I delivered a reactive team to the plant, but also provided and led the proactive (planned preventative maintenance) team.

Created Pareto's of failures on critical assets and tackled the most occurring issues to help operations efficiency increase.

Ambassador for TPM (total productive maintenance) and led the deployment of the methodology across the whole plant in each area.

Reported to all senior stake holders on the progress and delivered a fully functional process to improve asset performance.

Worked with the central maintenance team to help deliver and develop different maintenance methodologies such as TPM, PQME, RCM and condition monitoring.

Participated in the monthly transnational maintenance forums and worked with maintenance teams in other European factories to benchmark and deliver best practices to the Broughton maintenance department.

Maintenance contract manager who dealt with external suppliers who provided a service to the plant.

Managed Reel UK, a multi national company that provided reactive and preventative maintenance to some of the key assets on site.

Managed a contract worth multiple millions of euros and I ensured that the service level agreement was being performed and all key performance indicators were being adhered to through regular reviews on the providers performance.

Responsible for authorizing the payments to the company along with any additional spend, and ensuring budget owners were aligned on all maintenance related costs.

Key stakeholder in the renewal of the new maintenance contract that assisted the procurement team when making final decisions of suppliers on site and reported to senior stake holders on budget setting for each program area.

Time served Apprentice, disciplined in Mechanical and Electrical engineering.

Responsible for fault finding and repairing of automation assets in Broughton plant, United Kingdom

Experience with:

Siemens

Fanuc

Allen Bradley