Chris Truman

Background

About Chris Truman

With 15 years experience in General Management, Project Management, Operations Management & Directorship roles in Engineering After Market Services environments, drawing on expertise from manufacturing industry, Chris is a strategic thinker who makes the complex simple, enabling clear goals and objectives. • Financially astute, Chris has held responsibility for a £170m long term project with at £25m annual turnover, £9m cost reduction opportunities implemented within 2 years. • An adept relationship manager; building and maintaining relationships at all levels within own organisation, customers, suppliers and industry stakeholders. • Improvements have been underpinned by a programme of change management, to deliver strategic thinking and the natural challenging of the status quo. Developed in both Unionised and non unionised environments. Lean methodologies implemented include: 6Sigma, kaizen, 5S's, Kanban & TPS • This has led to improvements including: • Customer Award for mort improved reliability – 60% reliability improvement in on site plant • Product reliability tripled, moving from 11th to 3rd in Rolling Stock national league tables enabling £1m+ additional margin opportunity. • Production volumes for High Horsepower engine remanufacture increased from 30 to 200 units pa - £15m additional annual sales. • Manufacturing capacity increased three fold from £6m to £20m • Inventory reduction ~£2m • Key skills include: Strategic thinking, six sigma, financial management, change management