Dave Bloom 14 Keble Drive

Syston, Leicester, LE72AN Mob-07955952704

Home-01163327407

Profile Trustworthy & reliable Planner, able to meet tight deadlines due to excellent organisational skills, along with the ability to mentor others and work well as an Individual or as part of a complex team, with an awareness of LEAN principles and the ability to apply them to improve output and efficiencies, whilst able to work within a fixed budget and timescale, extremely process driven with the ability to implement and maintain process with the flexibility adapt to emergencies

With 22 Year’s Experience working in the British Army, serving both operationally and in peacetime globally, managing multi million pound assets in management roles, competent in managing Safety Health environment and Fire matters, also planning of freight movement and its necessary documentation and engagement with Customs authorities and 3rd parties, with an awareness of the Railway working environment

Key skills

• Team work & communication skills • Planning works & deadline setting • Management procedure delivery • Transport Management • Stores management • Equipment husbandry • Allocation of work & mentoring • Auditing • Fault diagnosis & rectification • Writing and carrying out Risk Assessments • Implementing Health and Safety Policy • First Aid at Work qualified Fist Aider • Account management

Career History

(Maternity Cover)Resource Planner (Network Rail) AUGUST 2016 - NOV 2016

Key responsibilities • Arranging Resources within lead times to support schedules and programs • Arranging manpower and technical staff within lead times • Arranging and coordinating hire and transport of road rail vehicles • Providing resource schedules to support annual and quarterly plans • coordinating and optimising all resources for efficient maintenance delivery • Managing the transportation of materials to sites of work • Managing the effective resourcing of plan changes and emergency works • Managing the engineering train haulage process • Submitting highway access requested to the integrated planning group • Collating and submitting accurate resource forecasts as required

Operations Assistant (Geosynthetics Ltd) APRIL 2016 - MAY 2016

Key Responsibilities

• Resource Management in accordance with Lead Times • 3rd Party engagement including inspectorates and sub

contractors • Maintenance of warehouses and office complex • Sales and Customer Care Procedure Auditing • Waste Management • Health and Safety and Fire Prevention • Operations monitoring and end of month closedown • Sourcing and purchasing PPE • Seeking quotations and arranging repair works from external

companies • Assisting Operations manager in day to day running tasks • Project Planning • Project Management

On ISOQAR Audit ISO:14001 and ISO:9001 accreditation gained.

Senior Facilities & Accommodation Manager (British Army)-2012 - 2015

Key Responsibilities

• Resource Management of equipment and Logistics • Works planning of scheduled repair and projects • Contractor Engagement for repairs and improvement projects • Managing building maintenance across Technical, Secretarial and Dormitory Buildings • Risk Assessments for Technical, Secretarial and Dormitory buildings • Requisitioning furniture stores • Disposal of household white goods • Health and Safety directive implementation • Unit Applications Manager for the MJDI logistic system • Enforcing strict accounting procedures within budget • Ensuring accounts were up to standard for external Audit • Ensuring all Health and Safety procedures are up to standard • Ensuring all faults are repaired in a timely manner • Ensuring all furniture requirements are met • Rail freight coordination, including dispatch and collection

On external Audit, all accounts responsible for fell within budget and were accurately accounted for, along with all Health and safety Policy being robust, fit for purpose and up to date.

All planned projects of works completed on time and within budget, all repair works completed within allowed timeframes

Junior Resources manager (British Army)- 2010 - 2012

Key Responsibilities

• Requisitioning stores for a squadron of 105 people and 26 vehicles • Resource management including coordination of transport and heavy vehicle lift capacity • Freight Movement planning • International Freight Documentation • Liaison with Lowland country police forces to move Weapons • Managing 6 logistics accounts both on pre tour training and on operations • Management of Health and Safety Matters within Squadron area • Management of waste and repairs within a mobile squadron area • Large scale Logistical movement planning • Engagement with the Danish Army to move logistics on my squadrons behalf • Joint operations planning with the Danish Army The Squadron was always well supplied and in a timely fashion, both in camp and on operations in Afghanistan and remained within budget, The squadron was known as the best resourced unit in Afghanistan and I received a Brigade Commanders Commendation

Heavy Armoured vehicle repair line Deputy Manager (British Army)- 2009 - 2010

Key Responsibilities

• Planning works for heavy vehicle repair, including transport of heavy machinery for delivery of safety critical work

• Managing Receipt of heavy vehicles from TRANSCAN Rail station and unloading procedures • Resource Planning • Running shop floor maintenance and repair of 19 vehicles • Managing Health and Safety matters in the vehicle repair line • Mentoring less experienced team members • Fault finding and rectification • Assisting in Project Planing and providing performance feedback to project manager 19 vehicles were completed on time fully fit for purpose, to allow a rigorous training schedule to take place using those vehicles

Heavy Vehicle Maintenance Supervisor / Inspector (British Army)-2001 - 2009

Key Responsibilities

• Planning unit maintenance for a fleet of 44 wheeled vehicles and 58 armoured tracked vehicles ensuring they meet legislative standards

• Resource planning • Scheduling of servicing • Coordinating dispatch and receipt of heavy armoured vehicles by road and rail • Transport Management and coordination • competency management, ensuring maximum output within the team • Supervisory tasks of vehicle crews carrying out maintenance. • Carrying out quality assurance of servicing and writing inspection reports • Managing Health and Safety issues for the Servicing Bay All vehicles remained on the the road and fit for purpose due to implementation of a schedule of servicing, a skills matrix was set up to record mentoring and training of junior team members, the unit passed the Equipment Care Inspection External Audit with a green pass, spare filters and Petroleum products to carry out servicing were always available at the time needed. Defence Junior Transport Managers Qualification gained alongside CPC Road Haulage Management National.

Qualifications

• IOSH (Managing Safely) 2015 • First Aid at Work 2015 • CLAIT2006 • CPC Road Haulage (National) • NVQ LEVEL 1 & 2 OCR 2013 Literacy & Numeracy • NVQ LEVEL 3 OCR 2012 ADR 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9, In tanks and packages

Training and Continuous Professional Development • CVRT DRIVER-learning how to drive and carry out basic maintenance. • CVRT GUNNER- learning how to operate 3 separate highly complex gun systems and maintain

them. • PHASE 1&2 SIGNALS-learning how to use and maintain radios and digital telecommunications

equipment. • CVRT CREW MECH learning advanced maintenance of all areas of the vehicle. • PANTHER DRIVER- learning how to drive and maintain a up armoured all terrain vehicle. • PANTHER COMMANDER- learning how to command and operate the vehicle tactically and

operate the gun and surveillance equipment. • MASTIFF DRIVER- learning how to drive and maintain a protected mobility vehicle. • MASTIFF COMMANDER- learning how to command and operate the vehicle and crew tactically • JCB 440 OPERATOR- learning how to operate a telescopic fork vehicle. • MJDA MA- learning the basic operations of the operating system for requisitioning stores. • MJDI UAA- learning how to be a system administrator, fault finding and rectification, user allocation

and system checks. • JAMES UAA- Learning how to be a system administrator for the system used for vehicle and

weapon maintenance scheduling. • JAMES BASIC- learning the basic operations of the system and data entry. • DJTO- learning how to run a transport department and complete the necessary documentation in

accordance with road law • TechIOSH2015- learning how to manage health and safety matters • First AID at Work 2015- learning how to be a workplace first aider. • RCP2 - learning how to be proficient as a rock climber and how to become a lead climber and gain

a single pitch supervisor award

Leisure Interests

• Coaching watching and playing Ice Hockey • Rock climbing • war-gaming