When did you join IMET?

I started working for IMET in December 2016. Before that I was supply chain director with Precision Cast Parts Corporation.

What do you do here? What is your main responsibility?

My main responsibility is purchasing and selling metals into the revert world, working not only with OEMs but also the generators, whether that’s the forging houses or the machine shops. I also work with our clients to put together materials management solutions for them. Ultimately IMET is a materials management provider, capable of processing aerospace metals such as titanium and nickel superalloys. That’s what defines us.

What do you need to be good at to do your job well? What particular skills and knowledge do you have?

In the main I’d say my supply chain background as well as more than 12 years working in the aerospace industry. And of course, you have to have people skills. Honestly, what we do is about building partnerships and relationships with OEMs and mills and local machine shops, managing the entire supply chain from mill to when it’s melted as virgin product.

What problems do you need to overcome as part of your job?

What we do is based on partnerships, so we have to prove ourselves in long-term relationships, not single points of purchase. From an organisational perspective, it’s a benefit that we’re a private company. This allows us to work together with our customers to create a solution and provide the personalised service our customers are looking for.

How do you know when your work has gone well?

In a new partnership, it’s when the customer is calling and providing opportunities to generate revenue for them, or work with them to solve a problem.  As we develop relationships with our customers we can build on different parts of the business where we can see they’re not getting the value for their material that they should, but need a processor like ourselves.

What do you enjoy most about your job and working in this industry?

At IMET, it’s the culture. It really is the people. The culture you encounter in the shop, in the office, you’ll see we’re all working to the beat of the same drum.

The company was built on consistently providing a quality product for our customers. So I’ve developed a lot of long-term relationships in the industry. It’s a large industry but a very small world.

What do you enjoy doing outside of work?

I have a second home in Cape Cod and love being at the ocean, with my wife, fishing or lobstering. When it’s wintertime I hide until May comes around again. I also collect wine. And I have to say, I love what I do for work.