Personal profile
I work between the drawing board and the rolling mill — specifying the grade, qualifying the source, and holding the tolerance that keeps a programme on schedule.
18
Years in the trade
60+
Programmes delivered
12
Source countries
99.4%
On-time delivery
Profile
I have spent my working life in the narrow space between what a drawing demands and what a mill can actually roll. That space is where industrial programmes are won or lost, and it is where I prefer to be.
My method is unglamorous: read the specification properly, qualify the source before the purchase order, and stay with the material until it is on site. Over eighteen years that has meant negotiating tonnage in unfamiliar ports, walking cold rolling lines before sunrise, and rebuilding a schedule after a single out-of-tolerance heat.
What I offer is not a catalogue of grades. It is judgment — about material, about timing, and about which supplier will still answer the phone in the third year of a programme.
Expertise
Four disciplines, one job — making sure the grade on the drawing is the grade that reaches the site.
Reading service conditions, corrosion exposure and forming behaviour, then converting them into a grade, a tolerance and an acceptance criterion a mill can actually hold.
Auditing mills and traders on process capability, traceability and financial durability — before the purchase order exists, not after the first claim.
Building price, tolerance bands and penalty terms so that risk sits with the party who can control it, and a change of grade does not become a renegotiation.
Sequencing coil, plate and long product into port slots, heavy haul and crane windows — keeping a site fed without building buffer stock it cannot finance.
Experience
Four roles, one continuous line of work: inspection, buying, sourcing strategy, and material governance across a group.
Set material strategy across four business units, and reduced twenty-three approved suppliers to nine qualified sources without a single supply interruption.
Built the wide-plate import programme to 40,000 tonnes a year and lifted on-time delivery from 82% to 99% over three shipping seasons.
Held rebar and section supply through the 2012 price shock with index-linked contracts and a second qualified mill kept warm.
Owned dimensional acceptance and EN 10204 certification for every plate despatched, and closed the mill’s largest customer claim in its first year.
Selected work
Each of these was decided before the first tonne rolled — by the grade chosen, the source qualified, and the sequence agreed with the site.
11 days earlier than the revised plan, with zero rejected coils across 214 deliveries.
Zero crane days lost to late steel, across an eleven-month erection programme.
2,400 joints accepted at first inspection, with no rework at the coating yard.
Skills & tools
Credentials
Contact
Send the specification, the tolerance you cannot move, and the date you cannot miss. I will tell you honestly whether it can be bought — and what it costs to keep it that way.
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