Andrew Preece

Project design solutions for your business With a diverse portfolio, our company can help you to outsource your project and design requirements. We can call on the strongest minds to bring clever solutions to even the most technical of problems. Project Design Contracts will bring added value and experience to your company, working with you to find a sensible solution to your design problems. Current work includes Chassis related projects in the Advanced Product Creation department of Jaguar.

Leader of an Engineering department with significant expertise in directing product design, development and validation programmes within stringent cost (engineering, tooling and piece cost) and timing constraints. Responsibilities • Delivery of multiple customer projects to global customer base, involving close liaison with customers and international manufacturing teams. • Management of a complete engineering facility of c. 36 staff with £1.5m+ yearly dept. budget to plan & control for headcount a

Lead Engineering role and Product Engineering Specialist for both Mechanical & Electrical Product Engineering. Responsibilities • Concept to Launch Leader of Project Engineering teams with full budget, timing & staff (incl recruitment) responsibilities. • Delivery responsibility for new electronically controlled powered mechanisms, including complex manual structures and mechanisms with electrical and electronic interfaces. • Project management responsibility extended to risk management, value enginee

Responsible for whole vehicle and sub system mechanical and electrical design & development including vehicle build (large RWD and small FWD commercial vehicles). Responsibilities • Managed the build of development vehicles and packaging bucks incorporating new model and product features, including powertrains and all other vehicle and interior systems • Responsible for mechanical and electrical design & development to satisfy unique customer requirements as part of the highly successful on-site Speci

Product Development role responsible for organising prototype build and test programmes. Responsibilities • Rig and dyno-testing; oil flow and bearing / seal development, refinement improvements; strain gauge instrumentation for static strength testing; and proposals for re-design / product improvement. Achievements • Full indentured BTEC Apprenticeship gained within design, development, manufacturing & production functions. • Extensive experience gained in testing and validating to OEM and Tier 1

Design & Development in Mechanical, Production Electrical & Electronic Engineering.