Job Title: Programme Manager
Company: EqualEngineers
Tell us a bit about yourself. This can include telling us what fires you up about the job you do, your professional achievements, your career highlights. What inspires you? What attracted you to pursue a career in manufacturing? Is there anything else you’d like to say about either your job or UK manufacturing?
I’m an engineer, having spent over a decade in automation and worked at Senior Management levels – but I am also a changemaker, passionate about re-engineering culture so everyone thrives. Manufacturing and automation constantly seek to improve productivity, efficiency, and safety through technical innovation. The same should apply to people. Inclusive cultures aren’t just good for morale – they drive performance. I’m glad that after my time on the technical side of engineering, my work with EqualEngineers and InterEngineering and my research into DEI now supports organisations embed inclusion into culture, not just compliance. What inspires me is the potential for UK manufacturing to lead not just technologically, but socially. A sector where all feel welcome, and all voices are valued. This is how we innovate.
What advice would you give to your younger self?
You don’t need to fit in to succeed. Keep true to who you are, even when it’s hard, because one day that visibility will help others feel seen too. You’re not here to survive the culture;you’re here to change it.
What is your favourite engineered/manufactured product?
The C-17 Globemaster III. My entry to engineering was through my interest in aviation. I joined the RAF Cadets as soon as I could and my undergraduate was in Aerospace Engineering.
Please give one interesting fact about yourself that not many people know.
I lived in Cambodia and in Chile after University before joining industry. I worked in a landmine relief centre in Cambodia, and taught English in a school in Chile.
If you weren’t in manufacturing what would be your dream job?
I actually moved from my role in technical engineering in automation and manufacturing to follow my passion of working in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the engineering sector, so I would say that I’m working in my dream role now.
