We offer the following new services that draw on the extensive experience gained by our team in the fields of operations, technical and engineering. The project management services below allow us to ensure that you maximise the potential of our combined knowledge.
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We can provide experienced project management services to supplement the quality equipment we provide. The team has over 18 years experience in project engineering with knowledge in the areas above.
about us
McA Manufacturing Consultancy was formed in 2005 as a manufacturing consultancy with a difference. We take the service beyond simply offering advice based on theoretical standards. We agree approaches with the customer and apply the solutions ourselves. We provide a real hands on management of processes and people. We strive to make connections and work with people, which is why we have a team with varying skills, to be able to send a specific member which will suit your business.
We provide a hands-on, personal approach along with the experience of a 20 year history. If you wish to make an enquiry, please feel free to contact us
FRANK MCADAM - OWNER AND DIRECTOR
Frank is a petrol-head originally from Ayrshire, Scotland.
A true lover of all things with an engine, he graduated from Napier University, Edinburgh in 1987 with a 2:1 in BSc (Hons) in Engineering with Management Studies.
With his two daughters all grown up, Frank and his wife now live in a small village in Cheshire.
When he’s not working, you’ll find him tinkering in the garage with motorbikes, trikes, kit cars and hot-rods.
Frank has over 30 years experience in fast-moving consumer goods, textiles and the automotive industry. He is experiences in running multi-functional teams and small businesses, acquiring businesses and assisting organic growth. He is specialised in implementing business rationalisation processes and strategies, while keeping them low risk to be effective and successful. He is qualified as an Internal Verifier, NVq D34, Trainer D32 and Assessor D33 in the Chemical Industries Association (CIA), as well as Total Quality: Facilitator Training, Business Processes Analyst and Implementer in Total Quality Management (TQMI).
He has experience of major restructuring programmes, amalgamation of sites, up-skilling of staff, major capital investments, site refurbishments and full new factory builds. Past jobs include Business Advisor / Director of Operations / Engineering Director for Herrco Cosmetics Ltd, Head of Autonomous Production for RDM Group Ltd, Project Manager and Lead Engineer for Alexander Dennis, Project Director for WD40, Principal Engineer for ONE80 Ltd, Operations Director for William Ransom & Son PLC, Project Director for Dimensions Corporatewear Ltd, Project Director for COSi, Head of Operations and Business Manager for Remploy Household & Toiletries, Head of Operations for Burlington Toiletries Ltd, Engineering and Production Management / Senior Manufacturing Executive for PZ Cussons International.
He has worked with big customers such as Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Safeway, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, PZ Cussons, Sara Lee and Superdrug.
His speciality involve products such as toiletries and household detergents, soap, aerosols, PDCB, creams, waxes, enzymatic liquid and powders, bleach, flammable liquids, and gift packing. More detail of all of the above are outlines in the Case Study section of Project Management, on our Services page.
He provides McA with the experience and knowledge, from a large number of successful projects. His attention to detail and network of industry experienced contacts make him the perfect director, managing the employees who work within the McA umbrella. All customers will receive an onsite representative, which will be matched to each company personally, based on preference and skill-base, with Frank as a management role to aid both customer and employee, often from afar.
Please see below other McA employees, which can be requested on our Contact page.
RUSSELL BLAIKIE -
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RUSSELL BLAIKIE -
PROJECT MANAGER / MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
Russell is another petrolhead with a keen interest in cars. Born in Edinburgh, Russell is now living in Boston, Lincolnshire. Russell is a music lover with extensive experience in business management.
Russell has a proven track record for cost reduction and control within businesses, hitting the ground running in able to assimilate into the company and aid it from within. He has knowledge of turnaround, cost management, streamlining, professional interpersonal skills and great ability of building strong and profitable customer relations. He has skills in procurement and supply chain, sales and marketing, process improvement, efficiency optimisation, vertical integration, logistics and OTIF, and setting KPI’s.
Achieving a BA(Hons) Msc CIM Dip, Russell began work as a Commercial Manager in ISoCoM Electronics Limited, before becoming Commercial & Marketing Manager at BP Chemicals Ltd, Sales and Operations Director at Cleenol Group Ltd and Commercial / Managing Director at Coventry Chemicals, where he increased turnover by 56% and profitability by 68%. Continuing to work in directing roles, Russell has also worked with Sanmex International Ltd, Robert McBrides PLC, Liquiform Limited, Ransom PLC, JKJ Limited, Solent Group, working with customers Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Aldi, and Statestrong Ltd.
Russell met Frank in Ransoms, hearing of one another from being within the business long before. They’ve been working together for many years, Russell being an McA Associate within WD40 Ltd, as Project Lead, where he oversaw the transfer of units between UK and international production houses. He also aided in the implementation of a new BOM system in line with USA parent company throughout Europe, and aided the OTIF standards through the setup of raw material supply and logistics chain. Since, Russell bought into a startup company, Cinnamon WD Ltd, a personal care manufacturing facility, building excellent margins through low overheads and cost reductions within the supply chain.
Now a member of McA Associates, Russell has been working on site at Aurora with another Associate, Tom Goggin, and aids in the on site management of supply chain.
Russell has excellent personal and financial skills, experienced in all areas of manufacturing.
If you believe Russell is the Associate you wish to start a dialogue with, click here to be referred to our Contact Page.
NEALE EDWARDS -
PROJECT MANAGEMENT / DESIGN CONSULTANT
Neale was born on the Welsh side of the border in Wrexham and after a varied beginning in his career, decided to risk all by setting up with his own computer design office in his home in Wrexham and giving up a more 'traditional' approach.
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He has a keen interest in cars and, to be perfectly honest, anything mechanic - or chocolate! - based. Neale also used to race and time trial with the local cycling club (Wrexham RC Fibrax) and was treasurer for some years. Though cycling is a rare thing these days, he still holds a keen interest in the sport, and in restoring his own vintage bicycles. He can play the Saxophone (reasonably in tune) and has a collection of vintage horns which he enjoys to play and annoy the neighbours and the dog!
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Neale is proficient in AutoCAD, Solidworks, Tekla and Revit, with a high-spec portable mobile workstation and home Desktop PC, along with other design equipment to give him flexibility to work anywhere needed.
He graduated from Plas Coch Technical College and has a multiple qualifications: BTEC OND Mechanical and Production Engineering Level 1 & 2, BTEC ONC Mechanical and Production Engineering Level 3, BTEC HNC A5 Mechanical and Production Engineering. Also, he was a part of the Institution of Engineering Designers and Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Originally starting off in doing design and detail work in Brymbo Steelworks Drawing Office, he has gone on to gain a wide range of experiences and knowledge in a wide range of industries and fields including Automotive, Structural, Mechanical, Piping, Process and Electrical.
However, since 1994, Neale has been freelance to make the most of his home set-up. He’s managed to build his own knowledge and flexibility, while expanding his software base from 2D to 3D, both as a design tool and also to communicate concepts and designs to engineers, directors and staff alike.
Though Neale is often based at home, he’s not afraid to travel, having worked as far as Penrith to London, and even in Germany and Cuba. Since being freelance, he’s worked with a huge range of customers: ADL Electrical Ltd., English Provinder Ltd., Anglesey Aluminium Ltd., Calipso Soft Drinks, Classic Couverture Ltd., DRB Machining Ltd., Electromec Ltd. in which he designed for Kellogs Ltd., Herrco Cosmetics Ltd., JB Fabrication (wxm) Ltd. aiding Welsh Water with design and detail, Remploy Ltd., PFS Ltd., Tracoinsa System UK Ltd. and Vauxhall Motors, and Villiage Bakery.
Neale met Frank when they were working together on the Remploy project and since then, Neale has been an intrinsic Associate to McA. Alongside his design skills, Neale has knowledge in multiple areas and is suited to any project management tasks sent his way.
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If you want to utilise Neale’s design and development skills, click here to be referred to our Contact Page.
ELEANOR MCADAM - OFFICE MANAGER
Eleanor is McA's office manager with a background in administration and hospitality with a passion for books, coffee and motorbikes.
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As Frank's youngest daughter, Eleanor has grown up around motorbikes and all things mechanical, trying to 'trike' her first motorbike at age fourteen. Studying a Creative Writing BA and MA, she's a lover of science fiction books which mix her love of the mechanical and robotics into a fictional setting. Having worked as a barista during university, she's become a lover of coffee and has built up a sizeable collection of coffee makers in her home in Manchester.
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Though she never became an engineer (much to Frank's disappointment!), she's been helping out with McA administration since a young age and after graduate roles in administration for HSS, she became an administrator for McA. Being promoted to Office Manager, she now not just aids McA with administrative duties but helps on projects to aid the financial and administrative duties of the client.
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Though Eleanor will not be a project manager on site, she will assist our Associates with additional duties on projects.
RIAN GAMBLE -
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING APPRENTICE
Rian is an Irishman, raised in Cheshire, with a love of music and all things electronic.
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Rian loves heavy metal and rock music, playing bass guitar in multiple bands in Manchester. He loves guitar pedals and has studied Electronics in A Level with the aim to be able to construct his own. Learning to ride a motorbike before he could even drive, Rian is a petrolhead just like the rest of the McA team!
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After graduating with a BA in Audio Engineering and Production, Rian continued on as a studio technician in his university before becoming Assistant Facilities Manager. When he decided he wished to study Electrical Engineering, he started working for McA as an apprentice, aiding on site with a range of engineering tasks, hoping to specialise in electrical engineering over time.
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Rian will be assisting our Associate on site in a range of projects.