David Knight

Leading Lean Six Sigma deployment at Arm by creating infrastructure to track people and projects, creating training material customised to Arm, and training and coaching people in Lean, 8D, Lean Six Sigma Yellow and advanced Green Belt globally. Recognition with the British Quality Foundation as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Led the Continuous Improvement strategy for the Combustors business unit in Hucknall site using Lean Six Sigma methodology.

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with Rolls-Royce in manufacturing

Provided Manufacturing Engineering Services for Rolls-Royce around the UK.

Led the Continuous Improvement strategy for Firth Rixson sites around the Greater Sheffield area using Lean Six Sigma methodology. Key customers were Caterpillar and Rolls-Royce.

Led a team of Quality Engineers to solve problems in the factory and with suppliers using Lean Six Sigma methodology.

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with both DMAIC and DMEDI methodologies

CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) for combustion chamber design and engine simulation Design of Experiments for design optimisation AI (Genetic Algorithms) for design optimisation Lean Six Sigma Yellow and Green Belt Chartered Engineer with IMechE

Pensions

Research into engine oils and lubricants

CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) on catalytic converters using UNIX and FORTRAN