Rob Groves

Background

About Rob Groves

A highly motivated and dedicated leader with twenty years’ experience in Engineering Management and technical roles. A strong communicator, excellent under pressure, with a keen interest in self-development - both professionally and personally. Safety Focus: • Driving of initiatives and campaigns to ensure that the teams remain engaged with Health and Safety. • Ensure that teams are motivated to comply with safety requirements in addition to improvements in processes to ensure -my teams remain safe. Stakeholder Management: • Experience of stakeholder management of large organisations from front line to Managing directors. • By ensuring communication streams and information is appropriately structured and stored leading to effective relationships with information at all levels fingertips. • Experience in Union management and negotiation to ensure all parties come to amicable agreements. Service Transition: • Highly experienced in creating and executing maintenance transition plans to bring a new team into the organization and ensure operations are not adversely affected from day one. Service Transformation • Able to develop and deliver transformation plans to change operations to suit business needs for both short and long term. Performance focus: • Ability to direct efforts to correct data to be able to resolve both long term performance issues and short-term failures. • Experience in leading teams into locating, resolving and presenting outcomes of performance issues and failures and able to articulate the technical issue to all stakeholders. Continuous improvement: • Experience in planning and implementing a better CI culture within teams led by experience and best practice using both coaching and physical improvements. Incident management: • Responsible for incident management across vast material handling systems and ensuring that the issue is resolved, stakeholders are informed and the best operational decisions are made. • Following the incident, using networks and technical ability to ensure that outcomes and lessons taken from incident are communicated and followed up to continuously improve.