Michael David Falconer

Flat 34 Mulberry Court, Moss Lane, Macclesfield, Cheshire. SK11 7TP

Email [email protected] Mobile 07982 416415 Land 01625-501793

Personal profile

I have very good ICT skills, with a recent open BSc with honours from the Open University.. I have been given responsibility for ongoing projects which have been budget and time critical, with a strong emphasis on customer service, and customer re-orders due to good service given.I have a strong history in production and quality control. I am available for an immediate start. I have a up to date RTITB FLT counterbalance and Reach licenses. I have completed manual handling and also Health and Safety courses, with a strong commitment to safe working. I am an experienced Warehouse Operative with now lapsed Counterbalance and Reach FLT certificates.

Key Skills

• Extensive experience of working within a production team and warehouse working.

• Extremely good at handling materials and equipment adhering to strict manual handling techniques

• Attended training in ICT Skills ending with a open BSc with honours.

• A lifetime spent in industrial production

• Used hand held scanners for goods in/goods out

• Good organizational skills once I am up to too speed on the job.

• I have a valid taxi licence and have a good knowledge of transport routes in the uk

• I have in date RTITB reach and counterbalance flt licenses.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Various Temporary contracts taken while I am looking for the correct job.

March 2022 – Oct 22 Company Hays Agency for AZ

Job Title Line operator

Job Description

I was a grade 4 operator on a pharmaceutical packing line. This is a complex and technical role involving the setting up of the line for packing pharmaceutical products. However I am only a temp and the job may or may not continue after the new year. I became ill, and had to leave, but I seem a lot better now.

June 2020 – December 2021 Company: Avantor

Job Title : Lab supply operator

Job Description

This role involves the supply of laboratory equipment to a series of Covid 19 test laboratories. It involves being proactive to the labs. There was some work involving access to -20 and -80 fridges.Plus the accurate booking in of Covid 19 samples.Of course at all times wearing the correct PPE and following procedures. I was working 11 hour shifts , on a four on,four off basis.

Sept 2019 – Jan 2020 Company: Manpower at Garrett

Job Title : Machine operator

Job Description

This role involves the assembly of turbochargers. Using various testing equipment and specialized tools. Also the role included keeping the OEE up to date via a spreadsheet and also a intelligent scan gun. Also troubleshooting skills were required when things did not go as planned. Continuous improvement was actively encouraged using Kaizen techniques.Finally I was involved in the packing of the finished product in strict accordance with the customers specifications, and the companies paperwork and computer systems.

Garrett Motion UK had received the Sword of Honour from the British Safety Council.One of the management teams key objectives was continuous transformation of the company. Flexibility and the fast ability to adapt to change were another.

June 2019 – August 2019 Company: Redeem via Agency

Job Title : Mobile phone tester and repairs

This role involves the sorting out of mobile phones into their various types. Testing and fault finding checking and attempting repairs to the various phones. Mainly Apple machines.

March 2019 – June 2019 Company : Nestle via agency

Job title : flt operator

This role involves driving a counterbalance fork lift truck(flt) . Collecting pallets of the finished goods from the production line and placing them in the warehouse racking. This also involves the use of an intelligent scanner to scan the pallet and the racking location back to the central warehousing database.This job involves working 12 hour shifts on both days and nights and also some weekends.

2 Oct 2017 – 19 Nov 2018 Company : Veolia Environmental Services

Job title : Waste Operative

I am involved in the collection and processing of industrial waste from a large manufacturing site. I am working on permanent earlies. I had to operate FLT and also various compacting machines. My duties were many and varied.

26 Sept 2016 – 8 August 2017

Goods in Goods out

Tullis Russell via Adecco Agency

• I am involved in goods in/goods out preparing goods for transport.eg wrapping and packing pallets and goods for transport and export.

• The role also involved the detailed filling in of the company paperwork and the use of the companies computer systems as well as spreadsheets.

15 August 2016 – 5 Sept 2016

Machine Operator

TMAC via the Connections agency

• I was involved in goods in/goods out. Driving counterbalance fork lift trucks.

• I was also involved in the operation of a computer controlled high pressure water cutting machine.

• The position also involved general stock control, to ISO9001 standards.

• This was a temporary position , they required a skilled worker to deal with a temporary backlog of orders.

13 June 2016 – 15 July 2016

Driving and waste management

DoorCo via The Best Connection agency

• I am involved in the safe and secure transportation of the client companies goods for either delivery or pick up.

• When I am not involved in transport issues I am involved in ensuring that the waste management works smoothly. Clearing up all the waste produced by the CNC machines. Attempting to put into place proper waste management procedures. And thereby reducing the amount of waste going to landfill, thus reducing overall operating costs.

• This was a purely temporary position providing holiday cover.

23 November 2015 – 25 April 2016

Quantity and Quality Control and other task

Fastrak

• My main role here is again QC, but as this does not take up all my time I have to make myself available for other work which crops up.

• In this role I also use both reach and counterbalance FLT for loading and unloading of LGV, and location and delocating of stock from the warehouse multi tier racking.

• I am also responsible for all production and transport paperwork in the QC department. I have to liase with the office to make sure our transport paperwork agrees so that we know that the current load has been despatched to the correct destination.

• The role is very similar to my previous role with Momentum.

6 June 2015 – 6 Nov 2015

Quantity and Quality Control

Momentum Instore

• This was the biggest ever roll out in Europe and on the second biggest roll out globally. Over 38,000 locations had to be catered for.

• At peak production we were moving over seven LGV’s per day.

• Each LGV had to be quantity and quality checked to ensure the correct range of components was going to the right location.

• Also as the components were assembled and packed the packed boxes had to be checked for being the correct weight, and records kept.

• This was a two person job, but I was responsible for the oversight of QC operations. This also meant an ongoing relationship with all the agency staff as well as the other companies personnel.

• I had to set up mobile computing facilities on site, which mainly involved just setting up email facility as there was no mobile signal, so we had to use Skype for phone calls.

• While all this was going on I successfully completed and passed my open BSc Honours(Third).

• During this time I had ample time and opportunity to use both my counterbalance and reach licenses(RTITB registered on the NORS database and current) both without incident and not one dropped pallet.

• During the project I was involved obviously with my own company(Momentum Instore) and also with the manufacturing company Fastrak, who were responsible for the manufacturing and packing of the products. Also I to occasionally liase with the customers overall project manager.

7 Nov 2014 – 24 Dec 2014

Pharmaceutical Operator

Sanofi via Experis

• As a new operator I am responsible for fitting into a new team and being able to pick up new procedures and make a positive contribution to the team and also the production targets.

• This involves becoming familiar with the processes of the company, and also all their documentation to ensure that all product is produced to the highest possible standards.

• This position also involved shift working.ie 6-2,2-10,10-6. A different shift every week.

July 2014 – 3 October 2014

Inspector

Apel Ltd

• Inspecting manufactured product to very tight tolerances, this was a major QC role. All components were checked to British Standards.

• Dealing with various courier companies

• Despatch of goods to various sub process companies

• Enter works orders, purchase orders etc onto the SAGE 50 manufacturing software.

• Booking goods into the factory and also allocation of materials to the shop floor.

• Goods warehousing and booking in/out procedures, to strict procedures, thus ensuring the correct materials were correctly located in stores and also allocated to the correct machine operation. This was the aerospace industry and we used many different ,but very similar materials for our components. The use of the wrong materials in a component could have potentially led to the failure of critical aerospace components. Hence compliance with procedures was ultra critical.

August 2012 – January 2014

Production Operative

Senior Aerospace

• Producing air conditioning parts for the aerospace industry

• This work involves high degree of manual dexterity

• Developed a good ability to complete drawing

• Ability to work as part of a team.

• Ability to learn new skills was essential.

Feb 2010 - June 2012

Pharmaceutical Packer

Astra Zeneca

• Working closely to coordinate and produce product

• This position involved strong team work in a very close environment.

• Strong warehousing skills to a very high standard as pharmaceuticals were involved.

• Involved with technical detail such as running machines and using computers to operate systems

• Strong attention to detail on the paperwork, which was of a international nature.

• Extremely diligent approach to the count of the product. Zero tolerance to even being incorrect by one.

• The job requires diligence as medical quality drugs are packaged.

• Quality control procedures are at the highest standard.

June 2008 to October 2009

Waste Operative

Veolia Waste Management Services

• Driving 7.5 tonne vehicle, collecting specialised waste

• Driving a FLT to load and unload LGV with the compacted waste.

• Bringing waste to waste processing plant where it would be compacted and cubed

• Worked well as part of a small team and able to use own initiative when required

• Good waste management is a critical part of modern industrial and corporate life, but sadly often greatly neglected, and adding massive costs to any industrial operation. In this case our waste management was of the highest quality on the Astra Zeneca site.

2007 to 2008

Granulator Operator

Shallcross Limited

• Responsible for the operation of a plastic recycling machine

• This involved looking after of the machine to ensure the correct materials are fed to it and that the product is correctly packaged and stored

• Operation of counterbalance FLT to load and unload LGV with either granulated product, or compacted product from the compaction section.

2005 to 2007

Powder Coater

Everret Charles Technology

• ECT manufactured digital control gear for the manufacturing sector, for such companies as IBM Siemens etc. An American multinational company then in Macclesfield.My role included the cleaning of the finished kits with heated trichloroethylene in a special tank. “Trike” is higly toxic and dangerous material especially when heated to a vapour. Strict safety procedures had to be followed or death would result.

• Also partially responsible for preparing certain items for inclusion in the kit manufacturing process

• Responsible for the powder coating of all the cleaned metal kits manufactured.

• This involves the tapping and deburring of various objects, prior to assembly

• Using a counterbalance FLT to load and unload vehicles.

2005 to 2006

Goods In Inspector

Bodycote

• As the Good In inspector I was responsible for all incoming materials and their paperwork, and the booking onto the company database.

• I also used a FLT to load and unload LGV.

• This was a higly responsible position. I was involved in incoming and outgoing QC for military standard aerospace components.

April 2005 to Nov 2005

Goods in, Warehousing

Stormguard

• In this position I was responsible for the goods in department and the ongoing organisation of the department.

• I also used a FLT to load and unload LGV.

• I had to set up a computer database to record the location and quantities of our stock components , as I was also responsible for supplying the production line with raw materials for production. My database had to be correct as production availability of raw materials was essential.

1990-2004

Driver/Project Manager/Quality Control

Sutton Castings

Sutton Castings was a U.K. leader in the design, production and delivery of cast iron and aluminium castings for general engineering, the automotive, train, oil rig and street architecture sectors.

Open University

• Open Degree BSc Hon(Third) awarded by the Open University September 2015 .

Macclesfield College of Further Education

• 1 A Level, 5 O Levels

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Poynton High School

• 8 CSE and O Levels (A-C) including Maths and English

Interests:

Reading computer related literature, philosophy and theology books, using my computer, attending live music events and cycling a few times a week to maintain fitness. Web design with database. Existentialist philosophy.

References:

References available on request.