Lee Pickering, Consultant/Europe

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General Expertise

Lee Pickering has 10 years experience in the aerospace industry and has led process transformation in areas encompassing strategic business planning, product development, product transition to manufacture and operations. Many of these engagements were carried out while he held senior programme leadership positions in radar, military vehicle and airborne transponder programmes with customer-facing responsibility for all aspects of the programme life cyle from bid management, through product development and manufacture to product acceptance. Key customers include UK DPA, DoD, FAA and NATS.

Individual Areas of Expertise

• Lean implementation — reduced lead times, cycle times and inventory.
• Certified LeanSigma Blackbelt.
• Defect reduction through 6 Sigma and process analysis and redesign.
• Programme management from bid to sell-off in the military aerospace environment.
• Engineering management of new product development.
• Creation of high-performing teams.
• Visionary business planning and strategic implementation.

Professional Background

• Director Northstar Business Solutions Limited.
• Programme Manager and Lean-Sigma consultant, Raytheon UK.
• Radar Site Services Programme for NATS
• ASTOR Ground Stations for UK MoD
• Operations Exec for Air Traffic Control

Representative Clients

• National Air Traffic Services
• Air Services Australia
• Cyrrus Limited
• Curtiss Wright

Education and Associations

• BSc Communications Engineering, Plymouth Polytechnic
• Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET

 

“Helping clients achieve results they didn’t think possible is great. Watching them go on to make further improvements with the capability we helped them develop is the best reward we get.”