JONATHAN BOUSFIELD
Team Lead, based in Auckland
Jonathan has been with Caliber since 2017, based in our Auckland office. JB is a highly talented engineer with more than 15 years experience, gained by working across multiple industries on a multitude of projects.
JB is one of our most senior engineers. He has been a lead engineer for projects at Newsmith, Tasti and Scott Technology Australia. Having such capable engineers within the Caliber team allows large teams of Caliber engineers to join projects without the team becoming a management burden on clients. (Sometimes our clients really need to firepower to get their projects over the line, but don’t have the resource to manage them). JB’s role is dynamic; he’s effectively managing a team on the clients behalf.
Recipient of the highly coveted Caliber Good Bugger award three times, Jonathan is a high achiever. His expertise and awesome mentoring skills have been recognised with him being promoted into a Technical Lead role. As a Tech Lead, JB spends some time each week providing technical support and mentoring to a group of Caliber engineers.
During his time at Caliber, JB has gained Solidworks Professional accreditation in Mechanical Design, Sheet Metal, Drawing Tools, and Weldments; as well as becoming an Autodesk Inventor Certified Professional.
JB’s enthusiasm is infectious, and he is a highly valued member of our team. It is our privilege to support his career development by continuing to provide exciting projects, challenging problems, and great people.
I’m excited by every single project. Some projects offer unique challenges, and others give me the opportunity to meet great people. Some exceptional projects I’ve worked on include doing Finite Element Analysis of a blast freezer pusher mechanism, installing backup power generation at SkyCity, and a product design study of a commercial hand tool. Probably one of the best moments in my career was the opportunity to see a working a vintage reciprocating piston ammonia compressor in action, first commissioned in 1883, and working with oil wells and with a 3m diameter belt driven flywheel!