Andrew Keating BEng (Hons)MBA

Engineering director

Minehead, England, United Kingdom

About

Experienced Engineering Director with excellent man-management skills, getting the best out of people and teams, it’s people foremost and upmost in any walk of life especially in business. A demonstrated history of delivering a world class service, with innovative ideas. Excellent engineering strategy setting experience. Strong inter-personnel skills, extremely conscious stakeholder communicator. Great team builder, able to deliver great results through his teams. Proactive leader, who empowers staff and gets the best from them. Amazed at how many amazing and wonderful friends I have made in business working around the globe. Strong professional with a Master of Business Administration - MBA focused in Business Administration and Management, from University of Warwick - Warwick Business School. Mechanical Engineering degree from Brunel University. Associate diploma in health and safety. Competent in ISO55001 Prince 2 trained

Experience

  • Interim Management Specialist at A.J.P Keating Management Limited.
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Head of Engineering at Refresco
    Aug 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Interim Engineering Manager at Hellers Australia
    Sep 2023 - May 2024 · 9 mos

    Took over a very dysfunctional maintenance department. Introduced a new maintenance structure, delivered a new CMMS system (FiiX). Saved $100k per month of trade waste costs, by determining plant was being used wrongly, and correcting.

  • Interim maintenance manager at BMI Group (Roofing & Waterproofing)
    Oct 2022 - Jul 2023 · 10 mos

    Brought in to manage maintenance team, and control revenue spending, and to improve site efficiency and productivity. Coached and mentored maintenance staff, introduced PPM planning into existing SAP system, to improve site efficiency, and focus resource, time and money onto key downtime areas.Downtime was being reduced (4 hrs a week on average was achieved), and production runs stabilised. Engineering stores processes and systems and master data in SAP was greatly improved and developed, during a group technical audit this area was very successful shown as a great example of work to be introduced on other BMI UK sites.

  • Engineering Operations Manager at Serco
    Nov 2021 - Aug 2022 · 10 mos

    Fiona Stanley hospital