02/07/2019
Philip Wingrove (MSc Logistics and Transportation 1996, Fellowship in Manufacturing 2003), Interim Operations Director, COO, Managing Director, Philip Wingrove Ltd
Philip is a highly-experienced global operations director with international expertise across supply chain, manufacturing and aftermarket support in a range of regulated industries.
Until recently he was Vice President of Operations at Orolia and took voluntary redundancy after restructuring the UK Business. He has now nearly completed renovating a house and is starting to provide consulting and interim management services.
At Orolia Philip was responsible for forming an integrated operations team across eight sites and five countries. This also included three M and A integrations.
At Boeing Defence UK, he was instrumental in reducing aircraft turnaround time by 81% and at the UK MoD Philip increased Chinook maintenance output by 45% in one year. He also worked for Smiths Medical and took the Tijuana Mexico plant from worst to best performer in the division in one year.
Philip is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Association of Manufacturing Managers, and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport.
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