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Mechanical Design Engineer - Special Purpose Machinery
Oliver Douglass
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Fareham,, United Kingdom
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A detail-driven Design Engineer working in the Biotech/Biopharma process machinery sector. Specifically, high-value/low-volume/high-end, fully automated Chromatography and advanced separation systems. This comes after starting my career with special-purpose process machinery for the microelectronics industry before joining PALL Life Sciences in 2016 and later transferring to Sartorius.
I consider myself to be a commercially aware, driven & dedicated individual, who prides himself on working to the highest of standards, with a constant desire to improve and refine skillsets and knowledge. Continually striving to design and realise the best possible solutions for a range of engineering challenges, with a strong analytical and practical problem-solving approach. I’ve been working with precision assemblies (steam & 2-stroke engines) since a young age and can be practical/hands-on as and when required.
I’m a Certified SolidWorks Professional, however, am now using Siemens SolidEdge as well as Autodesk Inventor & have the ability to work at a fast and effective pace to build assemblies, model intelligently and draught efficiently/intelligently with design intent at the heart.
Currently at The University of Portsmouth on the BEng online distance learning course after completing the Higher Apprenticeship in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, gaining an HND at Distinction in Mechanical Engineering and a City & Guilds Level 4 NVQ Extended Diploma in Engineering Manufacture.
I consider myself to be a commercially aware, driven & dedicated individual, who prides himself on working to the highest of standards, with a constant desire to improve and refine skillsets and knowledge. Continually striving to design and realise the best possible solutions for a range of engineering challenges, with a strong analytical and practical problem-solving approach. I’ve been working with precision assemblies (steam & 2-stroke engines) since a young age and can be practical/hands-on as and when required.
I’m a Certified SolidWorks Professional, however, am now using Siemens SolidEdge as well as Autodesk Inventor & have the ability to work at a fast and effective pace to build assemblies, model intelligently and draught efficiently/intelligently with design intent at the heart.
Currently at The University of Portsmouth on the BEng online distance learning course after completing the Higher Apprenticeship in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, gaining an HND at Distinction in Mechanical Engineering and a City & Guilds Level 4 NVQ Extended Diploma in Engineering Manufacture.
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2016 - ?
job
Mechanical Design Engineer
PALL Life Sciences.
Based in the 'Manufactured Systems Group' design department using Siemens Solid Edge, SolidWorks & Autodesk Inventor. Designing & detailing high-end, innovative and automated (Linear & Hydraulic Actuated) Chromatographic purification platforms as well as Cell Culturing Systems, that support today's demanding applications and productivity goals. PALL products are in operation in many downstream biopharmaceutical processes and offer exciting new selectivity that address the process challenges of today, true scalability from lab to process scale, and unique platforms that enhance process economics.
Duties -
* Design and validate products to customer requirements, relevant pressure vessel design standards/codes (PD 5500 & ASME VIII) and Pall procedures from initial inquiry to contract completion.
* Assist Project/Quotations Engineers with early customer communications.
* Taking ownership of 'Design Authority' for products transitioning over from R&D to full OEM manufacture.
* Engineering Drawings/Stress Calculations using MathCAD.
* Create appropriate Engineering Schedules and Bills of Materials to facilitate the release of orders within agreed timescales.
* 3P/DFMA, Kaizen & Standardisation exercises with both Single-Use and Chromo Hardware.
* Monitor and report on deviations from customer and contract requirements.
* Provide technical support for other internal and external functions (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Applications, Sales and Customers)
* Provide engineering solutions to internal non-conformances (rejects), customer issues (CORs) and change requests within agreed timescales.
* Implement and support continuous improvement actions/projects and best practice replication throughout the company.
* Understand and influence engineering performance measures.
* Implement actions as instructed by the site Engineering Manager.
* Mentor and guide new/young engineers.
Projects (Snapshot)-
* Novo Nordisk 'Resolute Linear Columns (2 x Ø450, 2 x Ø1000 - PD5500)' - Working in partnership with NNE Pharma - acting as the consultants to Novo Nordisk. This was a very demanding project with the added dynamic of working alongside NNE. I picked this project up a few weeks after starting and quickly had to get up to speed. It was a fully bespoke Column with a very comprehensive and demanding URS for their new advanced plant in Hillerød, Denmark. During this project I helped introduce a new dynamic seal design in partnership with Trelleborg as well as designing bespoke pipework with SS Duplex/1.4410 Ferrules. As well as the physical design I worked closely with NNE process engineers to produce bespoke, fully tagged P&ID's with intelligent CIP/Process procedures.
* Designing A Standardised Range of Manual Columns - Working closely with marketing and product managers to define specs and quantify the range. Reducing lead-times from 14 weeks down to 9 weeks with optional 'Piping Flow Kit'.
* GSK 'Resolute Linear Columns (2 x Ø1000 - ASME VIII / PVHO)' - Designed two fully bespoke columns for GSK's site in Massachusetts. All Calcs were in accordance with the ASME VIII and PVHO design code as well as Seismic Calcs. Both columns were handed with respect to electrical and pipework, retrofitting too their existing skids. Tight dimensional restrictions also had to be adhered to.
* LFB - (2 x Ø500 Manual Columns - PD5500) - Designed a simple Ø500 Manual Column for the use in blood products - specifically Plasma.
* CSL Behring - (1 x Ø450 Manual Column - PD5500 + 1.4435 Packing Station) - Designed a high pressure Ø450 Manual for CSL's new site with all 1.4435 wetted components and an accompanying 1.4435 packing station.
* JSR Micro - (2 x Ø1000 Fixed Columns - PD5500) - Designed a column to meet their existing process. This was fixed column with no dynamic cells. Matching their existing columns in volume and process specific dimensions to ensure FDA approval and ensuring production between transition.
* Aurobindo Pharma - (1 x Ø800 & 1 x Ø1000 Manual Columns - PD5500) - Working with Aurobindo to create two Manual Columns, this was a smooth and straight forward project with occasional input from process engineers working alongside Aurobindo.
Duties -
* Design and validate products to customer requirements, relevant pressure vessel design standards/codes (PD 5500 & ASME VIII) and Pall procedures from initial inquiry to contract completion.
* Assist Project/Quotations Engineers with early customer communications.
* Taking ownership of 'Design Authority' for products transitioning over from R&D to full OEM manufacture.
* Engineering Drawings/Stress Calculations using MathCAD.
* Create appropriate Engineering Schedules and Bills of Materials to facilitate the release of orders within agreed timescales.
* 3P/DFMA, Kaizen & Standardisation exercises with both Single-Use and Chromo Hardware.
* Monitor and report on deviations from customer and contract requirements.
* Provide technical support for other internal and external functions (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Applications, Sales and Customers)
* Provide engineering solutions to internal non-conformances (rejects), customer issues (CORs) and change requests within agreed timescales.
* Implement and support continuous improvement actions/projects and best practice replication throughout the company.
* Understand and influence engineering performance measures.
* Implement actions as instructed by the site Engineering Manager.
* Mentor and guide new/young engineers.
Projects (Snapshot)-
* Novo Nordisk 'Resolute Linear Columns (2 x Ø450, 2 x Ø1000 - PD5500)' - Working in partnership with NNE Pharma - acting as the consultants to Novo Nordisk. This was a very demanding project with the added dynamic of working alongside NNE. I picked this project up a few weeks after starting and quickly had to get up to speed. It was a fully bespoke Column with a very comprehensive and demanding URS for their new advanced plant in Hillerød, Denmark. During this project I helped introduce a new dynamic seal design in partnership with Trelleborg as well as designing bespoke pipework with SS Duplex/1.4410 Ferrules. As well as the physical design I worked closely with NNE process engineers to produce bespoke, fully tagged P&ID's with intelligent CIP/Process procedures.
* Designing A Standardised Range of Manual Columns - Working closely with marketing and product managers to define specs and quantify the range. Reducing lead-times from 14 weeks down to 9 weeks with optional 'Piping Flow Kit'.
* GSK 'Resolute Linear Columns (2 x Ø1000 - ASME VIII / PVHO)' - Designed two fully bespoke columns for GSK's site in Massachusetts. All Calcs were in accordance with the ASME VIII and PVHO design code as well as Seismic Calcs. Both columns were handed with respect to electrical and pipework, retrofitting too their existing skids. Tight dimensional restrictions also had to be adhered to.
* LFB - (2 x Ø500 Manual Columns - PD5500) - Designed a simple Ø500 Manual Column for the use in blood products - specifically Plasma.
* CSL Behring - (1 x Ø450 Manual Column - PD5500 + 1.4435 Packing Station) - Designed a high pressure Ø450 Manual for CSL's new site with all 1.4435 wetted components and an accompanying 1.4435 packing station.
* JSR Micro - (2 x Ø1000 Fixed Columns - PD5500) - Designed a column to meet their existing process. This was fixed column with no dynamic cells. Matching their existing columns in volume and process specific dimensions to ensure FDA approval and ensuring production between transition.
* Aurobindo Pharma - (1 x Ø800 & 1 x Ø1000 Manual Columns - PD5500) - Working with Aurobindo to create two Manual Columns, this was a smooth and straight forward project with occasional input from process engineers working alongside Aurobindo.
Support, UP, Manager, Processes, Kaizen, Calculations, Production, Guide, Scalability, Inventor, Solid edge, SOLID, Hardware, Marketing, Pharma, It, Engineering, Sales, Mechanical design, Mentor, Autodesk Inventor, Continuous improvement, R, SolidWorks, Design
2013 - 2016
job
Mechanical Design/R&D Engineer
Circuit Engineering Marketing Co Ltd.
CEMCO design and manufacture bespoke wet processing machinery for the electronics industry, specifically roll-to-roll and conveyor machinery for emerging technologies such as printed electronics, RFID's, Photovoltaics and Battery technologies. As a member of the Engineering Department and Drawing Office I am pivotal to the development of the companies next generation of products.
Joined on the Higher Apprenticeship Programme; after spending time in the Machine Shop, Fabrication, Electrical & Fitting department I was brought into the Drawing Office where I could be fully utilised.
Duties -
* Part of the Engineering/Design team, specialising in the SolidWorks package. Designing and detailing specialist machinery solutions to customer specifications; working closely with my Managing Director, Senior Project Engineer, DO Manager and Production Team to realise machinery for manufacture from the concept phase. Always ensuring internal & external deadlines are met and ensuring component parts and systems are validated to meet the functional and technical requirements.
* Overseeing and managing design changes and new product developments as well as continuous product improvement and support for our existing machinery.
* Producing documentation for manufacture/instruction manuals for new and retrofittable products.
* Resolving production issues and constantly liaising between design & production teams.
* Basic use of CFD for the purpose of piping design, substrate/fluid interaction and marketing literature.
* Logical BOM structuring, maintenance and development with respect to sales and production.
* Using math to form and solve equations regarding fluids, heat, velocities, forces etc. to determine design feasibility as well as to be incorporated into PLC programs.
* Determining nature of technical problems and possible solutions, such as product redesign, substitution of material or processes, or rearrangement of parts or subassemblies. Troubleshooting exercises involving assemblies, typically surrounding tolerances stack up and manufacturing methods.
* Producing conceptual models from existing machinery or new solid body models for the purpose of quote drawings/proposals. Typically presenting solutions to international technology companies.
* Research & development of processes, typically in partnership with the client.
Projects (Snapshot)-
* BAE Systems 'Electroplater' & 'Develop/Etch/Strip Line' - Working in partnership with BAE as well as chemical suppliers I designed a semi-automatic electroplating machine. Its function was to plate the internal bore of a palladium precursor coated holes on Ceramic circuit boards used in Spearfish torpedoes. As well as that our team designing a part automated production tool that utilised a subtractive process for the application of manufacturing the circuit boards tracks.
* Atmel - Developed a roll-to-roll Blackening line used to process the Apple iPhone/iPad's high-resolution touch screens. This line was fully automated including the dosing & fill systems.
* CPI/UniPixel/Kodak - Developed a flexible lab test module comprised of a pre-treat, plater & rinse modules which is hired out to technology companies to perform process testing, helping us to secure contracts for larger production tools.
* ThinFilm - Developed an environmentally friendly etching lab tool using Ozonated Water instead of harmful Acid & Alkali based etchants. A redesigned and developed fluid delivery system 'Fluid Engine' incorporated a dual plenum which created and delivered the Ozone/DI solution to the substrate.
* Career - Performed etch trails using Cupric Chloride for the next generation of Apple iPhone circuitry, commissioned by the Taiwanese firm 'Career'. Over the course of the trails we developed various fluid delivery systems to etch away at thin copper films achieving 20 micron tracks and spaces. During which I was responsible for data collection and forming an Excel spreadsheets to analyse data before writing a report to determine the process feasibility against the specification.
* CEMCO 'Streamline' - Continually developing process subassemblies in a modular fashion. Helped in reducing the overall machine cost by £7,000 through cost engineering exercises, DFA and creating standardised fabrications that cater to all processes while still meeting company/clients standards.
* CEMCO 'QuickSilver' - Responsible for the creation of the Top Level CAD model from 2D drawings. Working side-by-side with fitters in order to ensure the models accuracy. Was responsible for developing a digital/actuator retrofit version as well as fixtures and tooling for clients internationally.
Joined on the Higher Apprenticeship Programme; after spending time in the Machine Shop, Fabrication, Electrical & Fitting department I was brought into the Drawing Office where I could be fully utilised.
Duties -
* Part of the Engineering/Design team, specialising in the SolidWorks package. Designing and detailing specialist machinery solutions to customer specifications; working closely with my Managing Director, Senior Project Engineer, DO Manager and Production Team to realise machinery for manufacture from the concept phase. Always ensuring internal & external deadlines are met and ensuring component parts and systems are validated to meet the functional and technical requirements.
* Overseeing and managing design changes and new product developments as well as continuous product improvement and support for our existing machinery.
* Producing documentation for manufacture/instruction manuals for new and retrofittable products.
* Resolving production issues and constantly liaising between design & production teams.
* Basic use of CFD for the purpose of piping design, substrate/fluid interaction and marketing literature.
* Logical BOM structuring, maintenance and development with respect to sales and production.
* Using math to form and solve equations regarding fluids, heat, velocities, forces etc. to determine design feasibility as well as to be incorporated into PLC programs.
* Determining nature of technical problems and possible solutions, such as product redesign, substitution of material or processes, or rearrangement of parts or subassemblies. Troubleshooting exercises involving assemblies, typically surrounding tolerances stack up and manufacturing methods.
* Producing conceptual models from existing machinery or new solid body models for the purpose of quote drawings/proposals. Typically presenting solutions to international technology companies.
* Research & development of processes, typically in partnership with the client.
Projects (Snapshot)-
* BAE Systems 'Electroplater' & 'Develop/Etch/Strip Line' - Working in partnership with BAE as well as chemical suppliers I designed a semi-automatic electroplating machine. Its function was to plate the internal bore of a palladium precursor coated holes on Ceramic circuit boards used in Spearfish torpedoes. As well as that our team designing a part automated production tool that utilised a subtractive process for the application of manufacturing the circuit boards tracks.
* Atmel - Developed a roll-to-roll Blackening line used to process the Apple iPhone/iPad's high-resolution touch screens. This line was fully automated including the dosing & fill systems.
* CPI/UniPixel/Kodak - Developed a flexible lab test module comprised of a pre-treat, plater & rinse modules which is hired out to technology companies to perform process testing, helping us to secure contracts for larger production tools.
* ThinFilm - Developed an environmentally friendly etching lab tool using Ozonated Water instead of harmful Acid & Alkali based etchants. A redesigned and developed fluid delivery system 'Fluid Engine' incorporated a dual plenum which created and delivered the Ozone/DI solution to the substrate.
* Career - Performed etch trails using Cupric Chloride for the next generation of Apple iPhone circuitry, commissioned by the Taiwanese firm 'Career'. Over the course of the trails we developed various fluid delivery systems to etch away at thin copper films achieving 20 micron tracks and spaces. During which I was responsible for data collection and forming an Excel spreadsheets to analyse data before writing a report to determine the process feasibility against the specification.
* CEMCO 'Streamline' - Continually developing process subassemblies in a modular fashion. Helped in reducing the overall machine cost by £7,000 through cost engineering exercises, DFA and creating standardised fabrications that cater to all processes while still meeting company/clients standards.
* CEMCO 'QuickSilver' - Responsible for the creation of the Top Level CAD model from 2D drawings. Working side-by-side with fitters in order to ensure the models accuracy. Was responsible for developing a digital/actuator retrofit version as well as fixtures and tooling for clients internationally.
Redesign, Data collection, Testing, SOLID, Development, Electronics, Office, International, 2D, Production, Presenting, Processing, Atmel, Contracts, RFID, Processes, Manager, UP, Basic, Fashion, Design, Excel, Writing, Research, Contracts, SolidWorks, R, CAD, Marketing, Mechanical design, Sales, Test, Technology, Engineering, PLC, Support, Cfd
2003 - 2005
job
Mechanics Assistant
Cresent Suzuki Southampton.
During my mid-teens I worked helping the mechanics with servicing, MOT's and race bike maintenance as well as assisting on the shop floor. Worked unpaid for the first two months to secure the position.
My education
2015
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2016
Southdowns College
HND, Mechanical Engineering
HND, Mechanical Engineering
2013
-
2015
Highbury College
HNC, Mechanical Engineering
HNC, Mechanical Engineering
2011
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2013
Brunel University London
Secondary, Higher Apprenticeship
Secondary, Higher Apprenticeship
2010
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2011
Swansea Metropolitan University
Bachelors, Left on health grounds
Bachelors, Left on health grounds
2008
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2010
Barton Peveril College
A-Level, Maths/Physics/Product Design/Extended Project (2-Stroke Engines)
A-Level, Maths/Physics/Product Design/Extended Project (2-Stroke Engines)
2002
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2007
Hamble Community Sports College
Secondary, Physics /Maths
Secondary, Physics /Maths
University of Portsmouth
Bachelors, Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
Bachelors, Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
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