Engineering
21 March 1977 21 August 1987
Employer J Wattie Canneries
1 March 1984 21 August 1987
Position Project Engineer - accountable for range of capital projects
Duties Management of projects involving:
- Conceptual development and proposal
- Financial control estimates & budgets, expenditure control and
- reporting
- Planning, design and procurement
- Liaison with authorities,
- Training, Installation and commissioning
- 19 July 1985 21 August 1987 (management extension)
- Management of site, building maintenance and staff
- Management of plant and engineering staff for potato chip, frozen
- and dehydrated vegetable operations
Accomplishments
Plant Design: Bulk potato trailers with automatic discharge system
Potato chip bulk storage & conveying system
Drum unloader and pallet turntables, telescopic conveyers, packing
stations with carton dispensers, flumework
Projects New snack food operation
Redeveloped process lines for frozen/DHV form fill & seal packing
operation
Steam pressure processing
Automation & control systems including:
- batch weighing, computerised weighing and packing
- data logging systems
- Materials handling & storage systems including:
- Food pumping, carton conveying
- Bulk bin conveying, vibratory conveying
- Reorganisation and upgrading of plant services including:
- Water reticulation & recycling
- Compressed air, coal fired boiler, system upgrades
- Refrigeration heating, ventilating upgrade projects
- Energy recovery
- Building & yard development
- Relocation and re-installation of plant to HornbyManagement Productivity Improvement
- Streamlining of work processes and reduction of staff levels
- Introduction of maintenance shifts
- Training of engineers for maintenance backup
- Rebuilding staff perception of their role in the company
- Implementation of staff ideas
- Reduction of repetitive problems
- Preventative maintenance programme
- Engineering budget coordination
- Plant performance monitoring and analysis
- Management and interpersonal skills developed
- Computer skills developed
- Statistical databases, spread sheets, word processing
- Project management
- Registration as Engineering Associate (REA)
21 March 1977 1 March 1984
Position Design Draughtsman
Responsible to L Nolan, Chief Engineer
Duties General draughting duties
Plant design and layout involving:
- research and development
- purchase of plant and materials
- specification and implementation of work
1 February 1979 1 March 1984 (additional responsibilities)
Preparation of proposals and costings
Supervision of work and expenditure control
Troubleshooting
Training of staff and management trainees