Nick Hogwood

Purchasing and Procurement Manager @ Skyships Automotive Limited

About

Commercially astute chartered engineer, experienced in operational management and delivery of new electronic automotive products With 27 years’ experience in automotive engineering, and 21 years’ operating at a management/senior management level. Creation and leadership of high performing teams, with experience at resourcing work to lower cost regions to deliver on engineering cost targets. Over fifteen years experience in reviewing customer requirements; analysing business situations; using a systems analysis approach and providing cost savings.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Chelmsford

Industry

Automotive

Skill

DFMEA, Automotive, FMEA, Manufacturing, Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Engineering Management, PPAP, Design for Manufacturing, Product Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Six Sigma, Automotive Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Electronics, Powertrain, GD&T, Kaizen, APQP

Experience

Purchasing and Procurement Manager

Skyships Automotive Limited

2022-5 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Great Saling, England, United Kingdom

UK Hardware Manager

Visteon Corporation

2007-8 - 2021-12 · 14 yrs 5 mos

Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

Lead a hardware team of up to thirty electronic and ECAD engineers; managing team allocation to projects; hiring of personnel, both permanent and agency; budget allocation for the team. Ran the VES electronics lab (for eight years), managing a team of ten lab technicians and responsible for the lab health and safety. Managed off-shore engineering resources and associated business cases, including setting up a new team in Portugal; lead training and program allocation of this team. Developed the business case for use of 'off shore' support ; identified companies able to provide required support in India, interviewed prospective engineers and allocated appropriate work tasks. Managed delivering compliant EMC performance for products. Lead identification of cost save opportunities. Lead UK electronics team in successful development and launch of two major products in last five years; prior to that lead the development of radios and clusters for a variety of OEM customers.

Audio Sub-Systems Manager

Visteon UK Ltd

2000-12 - 2007 · 6 yrs

Basildon, England, United Kingdom

Lead a team of thirteen engineers in development of audio systems and improvement of radio reception performance for Ford vehicles. Responsible for three large test facilities, and their related health and safety. Lead the pursuit of new audio system business with vehicle manufacturers, which included trade shows and customer presentations.