DAF Electric Truck – UK-based Truck Manufacturing

Andrew Irish: Facilities & Maintenance Manager, Leyland Trucks

Andy works as the Facilities & Maintenance Manager at Leyland Trucks as part of the Operations Management team. He joined the organisation in 2000 after graduating from Loughborough University in 2000 with a BEng (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering and has since developed to become an accomplished operations leader with more than 25 years of experience. His career has spanned senior roles across Operations, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Continuous Improvement and Facilities & Maintenance. Andy has managed numerous, significant Operations projects, ranging from new product industrialisation to major manufacturing facility and process redesigns.

Andy led the assembly process readiness aspects of the Euro 6 and New Generation DAF product introductions at Leyland Trucks, has since supported the incorporation of the Battery Electric DAF products into the assembly process and has been instrumental in the procurement of significant capital funding for the Leyland site in order to achieve capacity, facility reliability, sustainability and energy efficiency goals.

As a Chartered Engineer and IMechE member, Andy actively promotes professional development and engineering Chartership within the organisation.