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STEVE
WELCH
Title: Director - BPIR.com
Role within COER
Director, www.BPIR.com
Benchmarking Facilitator, NZ Benchmarking Club
E-mail s.j.welch@massey.ac.nz
Telephone number +64 6 350
5921
Qualifications
Master’s Deg. –
Performance measurement and Business Excellence Massey University,
NZ In progress
Diploma units in Data Modelling & Relational Database
– Logical Design South East Metropolitan College, Aus
2000
B Eng. (Elect) Open University, Aus 1995Unfinished
HNC in Microelectronic Engineering Plymouth College of Further
Education, UK 1987
HTEC Aerospace Studies RAF No 1 Sch Trade Trg Unit, UK 1981
ONC Mechanical Engineering Staffordshire Technical College,
UK 1980
GCE ‘A‘ Levels – Maths, Physics, English
School 6th Form 1978
Experience overview
Various
countries 1980 - 87
RAF Aerospace Electronics Maintenance engineer and later,
aircrew.
United
Kingdom 1987-94
Director of Viewcross Personnel - supplying production, planning,
and support engineers to the Aerospace industry.
Also filled various roles as Draughtsman and Production, Planning,
and Support Engineer during this period as necessary.
Australia
1994-2000
Project work in Management/Design/Draughtsman capacities in
the following industries:
Aerospace
Mining
Structural steel
Oil & Gas
Telecomm
Ship building
Malaysia
1998
Commissioning Engineer and Training Facilitator - CNC machinery
New Zealand
2000
- 2002
Project Leader - Benchmarking and performance Improvement
Resource (www.bpir.com)
2001
New Zealand Business Excellence Award Evaluator
2001-
Current
Benchmarking Facilitator for COER's
NZ Benchmarking Club.
2002
- Current
Director of www.bpir.com
Areas of expertise
Baldrige, Performance Measurement, Strategic alignment, leveraging
technology
Professional/research interest
Performance Measurement systems, worker motivation and retention
Career highlights
Aircrew training
Completion of offshore integrity project for BHP
Finalising designs of innovative twin seat carbon fibre aeroplane
"Eagle"
Completion of first formal Business Excellence evaluation
Launch of www.BPIR.com
Selected/recent publications
Welch, S.J. and Mann, R.S., (2001), The Development of A Benchmarking
And Performance Improvement Resource, Benchmarking: An
International Journal, Vol 8, Issue 5, Emerald, Bradford.
Personal interests/hobbies
Friends,
wildlife, golf, soccer, networking, cars
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