Richard has spent 9 years in a significant role within a cross functional launch team designing and developing a new factory and manufacturing system. The factory has delivered a new major aerospace component pulse assembly line, and is now achieving delivery of 8 units a month alongside a 50% reduction in ltif rate, low sickness absence and higher engagement scores. Instrumental to this success has been early engagement in the concepts and detail work with the engineering function, integration between the manufacturing system supplier, the factory building and the production teams.

The following outcomes have been achieved:

BREEAM ‘Excellent building”, new style horizontal wing build, pulse line, 3 metre point of use principles,  increased manhole sizes and improvement in compliance and development of our people, including people centres, line side support, cultural skills, training and competence, local inductions.

As a site EHS Manager Richard led a large team and was responsible for managing Environment, Occupational Health and Safety within Airbus UK Manufacturing Plant in Broughton North Wales, manufacturing the wings for Airbus aircraft.
He proactively restructured the EHS department into embedded business based advisors with a central support function.
He introduced site House Safety Rules with senior management and Trades Unions based on a UK Petrochemical organisation.
He successfully led the team in achieving OHSAS18001 Safety Management System and ISO14001 Environmental Management System.

• Rebuilding EHS teams across MAL UK with more synergistic approach 

• Developing a ISO 45001 approach to H&S 

• Successfully recertifying 14001 Environmental Management System  in Aug 2021

• Successfully managed impacts of Covid 19 maintain factory in production in early 2020

• Interim role to drive a more proactive  approach to EHS after some years of non-progressive approach

• Initial work was diagnostic on issues, setting priorities with a recovery plan & emphasis on “go to Gemba”

• Priorities were Risk assessment / Accident investigation / Safety inspections and management reporting