The Maintenance Professional of the Year Award was launched by Maintenance & Engineering Magazine to give recognition to the contribution made by maintenance professionals to the overall efficiency and productivitiy of their organisations and to encourage excellence in maintenance and engineering.  It was presented for the first time at MAINTEC 2002.

All entries 'superb' say judges.

Speaking on behalf of the judges at the presentation of the 2005 Maintenance & Engineering Maintenance Professional of the Year Award, sponsored by PMI Software, Alan Wilson described all the submitted entries as: 'superb and deserving of congratulations'.

The winner was Craig Martin, Site Engineering Manager at United Biscuits' factory in Glasgow. Craig Martin joined UB in 1991 and has been in his present position for three years. Of the 840 employees at the site, 59 are maintenance staff, of whom 45 are craft. Craig outlines his main job responsibilities. "I am primarily accountable for overseeing all engineering activities including operational engineering, site services/ infrastructure, project engineering and energy management."

Craig also has to ensure the full utilisation of a SAP PM computerised maintenance system for coordinating, planning and delivering all planned maintenance activities and schedules, manage a £6m Repair and Maintenance budget, up to £6m Capital Development budget and ensure on-site legislative adherence for all engineering activities.

In addition, he is assuming engineering responsibility for a 24-acre site, £104m site assets, with product value of £100m/pa, production volume of circa 50,000t of finished product, across 14 complex manufacturing lines operating on a 5 x 24hr shift pattern. On the staff side, he has to lead, motivate and develop the 59-strong team, at varying levels of hierarchy, oversee development and training, including upskilling, cross-skilling, enhanced skilling and legislation adherence and lead all planning activities across the department.

"I believe that I have achieved visible results in a fast paced, challenging and changing environment," says Craig.  "A number of initiatives have been introduced to develop people within their roles. Team members now have personal development plans and are supported with their training for accredited qualifications. These include degree qualification for apprentices, NVQ Level 3 for craft chargehands, Diplomas for engineering managers, enhanced technical skills and secondments onto major capital project programmes for craft team members".

"Over the past five years I have pioneered and implemented an incremental asset care strategy, while operating in an Area Engineering & Site Engineering role," says Craig. "Between 2000 and 2003 this has included creation of a PPM scheme, implementation of synthetic lubrication on all gearbox, bearings and drive systems, tribology on all major gearboxes and thermographic imaging on all HV & LV electrical control panels. In 2004, we piloted then implemented acoustic analysis on one production line, extending this to 14 manufacturing lines in 2005, when a computerised data capture system, with 1050 fixed sensors, was installed. In the same year, we developed a HV maintenance strategy which was implemented, with all seven HV substations being upgraded from 2005 - 2007. Implementation of OEE, WPO and 5S on two manufacturing lines to support the movement of progressive maintenance and integration with operations resulted in OEE being increased from 71% to 82%."

"On the training side, in 2003 we implemented cross-skilling, with 80% of singled skilled craft cross-skilled by the end of 2005, and between 2003 and 2005 a £250k total investment programme in craft and management development across Health and Safety, advanced mechanical and electrical, general mechanical and electrical, predictive techniques and professional qualification support was successfully delivered."

"The program and strategy, which have been successfully implemented, will be sustained through effective communication, detailed and meaningful areaplans, SMART objectives and personal development plans. All of these, which are now in place, will ensure that the overall plan can be sustained and embedded as the way of working within the engineering function"," Craig concludes.

The full result of the Maintenance & Engineering Maintenance Professional of the Year Award, sponsored by PMI Software was: 1st Craig Martin, United Biscuits; 2nd Michael Quinn, Schrader Electronics; 3rd Equal Martin Taylor, Moy Park and Dave Porrill, Eli Lilly & Company.

If you would like to enter for the next Maintenance Professional of the Year Award yourself, or to propose somebody you think deserves it, please contact Conference Communication on 01252 783111 for details of how to apply.

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDGING PANEL IS DOCTOR ALAN WILSONAlan Wilson's experience in asset maintenance management developed at Guinness, the brewers in London, where he was responsible for planning and controlling the maintenance and project activities of over 200 in-house and contract trades people at the Park Royal Brewery. He assisted Guinness Overseas in the design, procurement and build of a new brewery in Lagos, Nigeria, and progressed to the upgrade of other breweries for product development in Nigeria and the Cameroons.

As a Chief Engineer with the operations management consultancy of WS Atkins, Alan headed the maintenance team of ten people carrying out audits, strategy development, computer system installation, and people development and training, with clients including the Royal Navy, BP, Kodak and British Airways. He was the Chairman of the Computer Aided Maintenance Management Group, the fore-runner of the Institute of Asset Management, and is the author of two books, 'Computerised Maintenance Management' and 'Asset Maintenance Management, a Guide to Developing Strategy and Improving Performance'.

Alan proceeded as director of his own company with engineering and building consultancy services in maintenance and projects for clients including British Steel, Ford, the UKAEA and the Health Authorities. The projects included criticality and RCM assessments, contract preparation and partnering arrangements, and organisation development. More recently, he has carried out project management assignments in the design and construction management of breweries in Colombia and Hong Kong.

Alan has carried out engineering assignments for over 50 well known companies. He is the adviser to many asset maintenance conferences, is a presenter at seminars throughout Europe, and represents the UK at the European Federation of National Maintenance Societies events. He is a chartered engineer, and has bachelor and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering.

PMI SOFTWARE - SPONSORS OF THE 2005 AWARDSponsoring the Award is Dublin-based PMI Software, which already sponsors a group of awards for maintenance projects in Ireland.

PMI Software Ltd (PMI) has been developing software solutions for engineering maintenance since 1986. As part of the Project Management Group of Companies (PMG), which employs 1100 people throughout the world, PMI has its roots firmly embedded in engineering.

Around seventy technical personnel are engaged in the development and delivery of the company's core skills, software development and related services. Constant innovation from within a quality assured environment guarantees that PMI's software and service is developed to the very highest standards, while incorporating the cutting edge of both knowledge and technology including WAP, WEB, Hand Held, and Enterprise based solutions.

Packaged software, such as PEMAC™, the computerised maintenance management and stores control system (CMMS), and Calib2000™, the advanced calibration technology system, form a major part of its product line up.

PMI offers all the standard associated services, such as system implementation, project management, and training. For situations that demand further, more innovative solutions, PMI's software engineers are able to offer bespoke software services to meet the most challenging specifications. Specialist technical services,such as validation for companies with a requirement to meet FDS or MCA, standards, is one area where PMI has particular expertise.

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