DANIEL JOHN EVANS

4 Mallory House, Southfield Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1USTel: 07805 924729

Email: evans.daniel@hotmail.co.uk

Personal Summary

Construction plant professional with over 20 years’ experience gained in the plant hire, capital equipment sales, and repair and maintenance sectors. An experienced manager, equally at home managing a team, or working independently. Well organised, and proficient in the use of IT suites and technology. Excellent communicator at all levels and in all mediums, with strong interpersonal skills, and skilled at extracting and analysing relevant information. Adept at providing solutions to problems and challenges.

Employment History

April 2013 – Present Babcock Critical Services Ltd, Coalville

Regional Manager Joining this growing repair and maintenance division of a multinational FTSE 100 company this role brings together all my past experience in the heavy plant industry. Key roles and successes are:• Manage customer relationships across 70 sites throughout the Eastern region, successfully

delivering R&M contract covering circa 200 plant assets with an average age and usage of 14 years and 17000 hours.

• Manage supplier relationships, successfully allocating resources correctly to drive down costs and bring efficiencies in terms of attendance and repair timescales and consistently achieving availability in excess of 93% (against a KPI of 86%)

• Manage team of eleven site based engineers across three key sites, I successfully implemented rigorous PDR regime, setting achievable aims for staff and ensuring these goals were met.

• Manage SHEQs responsibilities throughout the region, personally delivering tool box talks on a three monthly basis, and implementing a monthly programme of delivery for the same. Actively investigated SHEQs incidents in a timely manner, and provided solutions based on the learning outcomes of such investigations.

• Provide monthly reporting of profit and loss, consistently reaching sales margin of circa 7% against a budgeted 5%.

• Actively seek out and win extra to contract work, achieving sales over and above minimum contract value of circa £900k annually.

January 2009 – March 2013 Self Employed

Equipment Assessor & Machinery BrokerDrawing on my experience to date, and utilising the network of contacts gained both in the UK and abroad I brokered sales of construction machinery to mainland Europe, Scandinavia, Middle East, China, Asia and the Indian sub-continent. To provide additional income I also carried out independent equipment evaluations both in the UK and abroad. My work required me to:• Accurately inspect equipment and provide honest descriptions to buyers, and successfully market

these through online media to ensure positive outcomes for both buyer and seller, brokering used equipment sales of circa £500k annually.

• Carry out minor repairs and maintenance prior to sale, completing basic PM services, hydraulic hose and cylinder repairs and replacements.

• Arrange loading, transport and forward shipping, I formed solid relationships with shipping providers and transport companies.

• Be flexible travelling both within the UK and abroad, travelling at often less than 24 hours notice to Norway, Spain, Netherlands, Italy and Ireland.

• Project manage Aggregate Industries due diligence inspection programme on behalf of Babcock, successfully completing 380 equipment inspections within a five week period and providing detailed and comprehensive reports back to the client.

DANIEL JOHN EVANS

October 2007 – December 2008 M B Machinery, Shrewsbury

Sales ManagerThis small independent construction equipment dealer focused primarily on export sales, and required the team to be extremely hands on. Key to the success of this role were:• Forming an accurate understanding of equipment requirements throughout the world, and I built

relationships with customers from Scandinavia, Continental Europe and the Middle East. I successfully sourced and marketed equipment to suit their individual requirements, achieving consistent monthly sales in excess of £60k.

• Negotiating purchase of construction equipment, often on a sale before purchase basis, and ensuring that the supplier themselves bought into the process.

• Thorough and comprehensive inspection, appraisal, valuation and marketing of plant machinery, and I was able to accurately target the correct marketplace dependent on factors such as manufacturer, age, value etc.

• Arranging of transport and shipping within agreed timescales, and I successfully ensured that all sales items were delivered to port or final destination without delay and in clean condition with all required paperwork.

• Providing assistance in loading and dismantling, on some occasions fully stripping machinery and loading into container.

June 2006 – September 2007 Viking Plant Hire, Shrewsbury

Plant ManagerApproached by the former Managing Director of Greyhound Plant Services to join this emerging construction plant hire company, the key position of Plant Manager encompassed total day-to-day operational responsibility. Key tasks here included:• Fully responsible for the complete hire process, successfully achieving monthly turnover target of

£22k, and overseeing a 30% growth in fleet size from 50 machines to 65.• Management of customer relationships, successfully winning new business and maintaining

existing accounts.• Implemented a rigorous regime for the movement of abnormal loads with both internal and

external resources, and ensured that VOSA requirements were met in accordance with Operator’s Licence conditions.

• Recruitment and allocation of both plant operators and engineers, recruiting an additional engineer as the company’s fleet size grew, and ensuring that sufficient plant operators remained available to cover customer requirements.

• Implement a plan of preventative maintenance, allocating both internal and external resources to unscheduled service incidents to ensure timely repair and maintain availability.

March 2005 – May 2006 Murley Construction Equipment, Evesham

Area Sales ManagerIn this position I was responsible for managing sales of Daewoo and Manitou ranges of construction equipment in the West Midlands area. During my employment the Daewoo brand began its transition to what is now Doosan, and at this time the brand was regarded as non-premium. Key tasks included:• Management of existing customer relationships, successfully maximising customer spend on non-

core business such as parts, attachments, lubricants and warranty packages.• Generation of new business, successfully building new customer relationships and achieving

sales targets of 2 machines per month.• Inspection and appraisal of exchange equipment, gaining valuable experience in both inspection

methodology and in the valuation of used machinery.• Identification of most suitable disposal route for used equipment, successfully ensuring that used

stock turnaround remained both fluid and profitable.

DANIEL JOHN EVANS

January 1998 – March 2005 Greyhound Plant Services, Oswestry

Assistant Plant ManagerMy role within the company grew and in 1998 I took on this customer facing role, involving managing the hire process from enquiry through to termination. Key tasks and successes included:• Managing customer enquiries and negotiating hire rates, introducing a formal register of

quotations and suggested hire rates and ensuring that all enquiries were followed up through to completion.

• Assist the Plant Manager in planning transport requirements, and successfully introduced a process for digitally distributing abnormal load notifications.

• Managing a team of circa 100 plant operators, and allocating their daily work schedule to ensure minimal downtime, and successfully built a business case for the employment of two relief operators.

October 1994 – December 1997 Greyhound Plant Services, Oswestry

Administration ClerkOn joining this large independent construction plant hire company in 1994 this position demanded a highly organised and methodical approach, and involved working to tight deadlines. Key tasks included:• Raising of hire contracts on a daily basis, I ensured that all chargeable extras were fully noted and

therefore recoverable.• Analyse, review and authorise plant operator timesheets, successfully controlling both travelling

and hourly employment costs.• Produce invoices for both operated and self-drive hire. I was able to ensure that all invoices were

prepared on a weekly basis to be with the customer by Friday weekly thereby speeding up the credit-control process.

• Maintaining customer and asset records, ensuring that all records remained upto date and maximised company income by analysing on/off-hire inspection proformas and agreeing recharges with customers for things such as damage and fuel not returned.

• Distribute abnormal load movement notifications to appropriate authorities under instruction from the Plant Manager, and I gradually completely took on this task to include route planning.

Qualifications

CPC National Road Haulage Gained in April 2004CSCS Supervisor (Gold Card) ExpiredCPCS Dumptrucks ExpiredCITB Intermediate Construction Certificate Plant & Machinery Operations (January 2001)University of Cambridge Local Examinations Spreadsheets (October 1997)University of Cambridge Local Examinations Word Processing (October 1997(University of Cambridge Local Examinations Databases (January 1988)GCSEs 4 at Grade B, 3 at Grade C (June 1988)

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