QUALIFICATIONS
- BE Mech (Hons) – 2019
- Prince 2 PM Cert
- Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management
- Certificate in Grid connected PV system design
DESIGN SOFTWARE
- AutoCAD
- Creo
- Inventor
- SolidWorks
ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
- ANSYS
- Excel (numberical method analysis)
- Matlab
- SolidWorks Simulation
- Inventor Simulation
Jonathan Bousfield
TECHNICAL LEAD
Skills Overview
Jonathan is an experienced engineer with infectious enthusiasum. He’s worked across a broad spectrum of industries and has a deep understanding of engineering principles and their real-world applications. He brings notable commercial insight to his projects. His expertise and awesome mentoring skills have been recognised with him being promoted into a Technical Lead role in 2022. As a Tech Lead, Jonathan spends some time each week providing technical support and mentoring to a group of Caliber engineers. Jonathan maintains a positive and professional, client focused attitude when leading any task.
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT – Jonathan has over 5 years of professional project management experiences, as well as PRINCE 2 Practitioner level accreditation and a functional knowledge of the PMBOK guide and project processes. Jonathan’s project management experience spans from managing a cross functional teams; to managing design, procurement, and installation projects; and planning and executing a multistage prototype.
- PROFESSIONAL DRAFTING SUPPORT – Jonathan can precisely follow the drafting conventions of a client business, or if a convention has not yet been established, Jonathan is also able to draw on experience and drafting standards to create a consistent drafting convention. He has co-written standards, produced reports and recommendations on drafting practice, and created and employed VBA macros for automating drafting updated for a fast and seamless turnaround.
- FOOD PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT – Jonathan has experience in both sheet metal assembly and welded stainless assembly of food production equipment to be wash-down ready and hygienic, as well as meeting machine guarding and interlock safety standards. From a redesign and resizing of coating rollers, ultrasonic knives and sprinklers for a cereal bar line at PTL, to carcase laydown conveyors for meat industry at Scott Automation Australia, to designing prototype production equipment for Tasti Foods.
- MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT – Jonathan’s extensive expertise in materials handling systems includes designing varied mechanisms and conveyors for companies like Modular Conveyors, Facteon, and Scott Technology Australia. His work ranges from belt-driven rollers to complex systems like overhead conveyors and specialised elevators. He’s adept in creating efficient solutions for different applications, including waste chutes and modular belt systems, demonstrating a broad skill set in designing and implementing practical and innovative materials handling solutions.
- PRODUCT DESIGN & COMMERCIALISATION – Jonathan’s postgraduate expertise in Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship underpins his ability in customer-focused and manufacturable product design. He has demonstrated rapid 3D design capabilities at Globex, contributed significantly to IBEX’s product development, and utilized rapid prototyping to blend mechanical functionality with user experience at Aim Altitude and Fisher and Paykel Appliances.
- SITE WORK / SAFETY – Jonathan excels in onsite work with a detail-oriented approach, ensuring precision and compliance with safety standards. His experience includes guiding site installations, managing complex tasks like running conveyor systems with tight clearances, and executing intricate engineering solutions such as vertical pipe installations. He has overseen job safety assessments, ensuring adherence to safety, security, and hygiene protocols. Jonathan’s expertise extends across various industrial and construction projects nationwide, including work at prominent locations like Sky City, Fonterra, Datacom, Silver Fern Farms, and Auckland International Airport.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I’ve enjoyed working on a wide variety of design projects in a wide variety of industries throughout New Zealand, supported by additional training in project management and commercialisation.
Over my career so far I’ve:
- lead exciting food production equipment projects
- sized refrigeration systems using engineering standards
- performed computational data analysis
- run commercial research at Canterbury University
- liaised with customers and stakeholders on project scoping, sales and handovers
- sold, designed, installed and commissioned solar power systems to New Zealand standards
- designed materials handling systems in both SolidWorks and Inventor
- produced detailed manufacturing drawings for designs
- managed effective and compliant engineering solutions on key construction projects
Project Experience
New Production Line
Fast paced project lead role, delivering remote design support for a new production line in Melbourne, leveraging the scalibility of the Caliber team to deliver a great deal of design and project support in a very short design window.
Waste & Laundry Chute Systems
Drawing sets for architectural use, fabrication, and building installation. Design and drafting, using Autodesk Inventor, for use in apartment buildings and hospitals. Project included site visits, liaising with stakeholders, building architects, engineers and installers, as well as providing support and special engineering solutions as required.
APPLEBY ENGINEERING
Sky City Generator Replacement Project
Pictured is one of three new generator sets providing a combined 4MW of standby backup power to the Sky City building in downtown Auckland. This was an excellent experience facilitating a complex installation project managing staff, commercial clients, and other contractors, while keeping work on track and solving engineering problems to a high standard and often ‘in real time’.
Food Production Equipment
Project lead to bring together a team to design and build revolutionary food production equipment at Tasti foods, from timelining to managing risks to budgeting to ensure project success.
MECHANICAL DESIGN CONTRACTOR
Materials Handling
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Detailed drafting using either SolidWorks or AutoCAD Inventor 3D CAD
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Concept Design and 3D concept Modelling
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Structural Detail Drawings
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Purchasing and procurement
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Design of Belt Driven and Band Driven roller conveyor sets
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Sheet metal profiles and assemblies, folded and welded parts
SOLAR ENGINEERING
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Electrical, Thermal, Mechanical design of solar thermal system
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AutoCAD Drafting of electrical and pipe schematic
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3D modelling and shading analysis with Trimble SketchUp
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Solar simulation and design using excel, T-Sol, PVSYS, HOMER
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Managed design, construction and commissioning
AIM ALTITUDE
Aircraft Interiors
Interpreting models and producing fully detailed manufacturing drawings in accordance with Aerospace standards. Design and drafting using Autodesk Inventor and Vault Data Management system. Tracking, checking and reporting design status of hundreds of parts and drawings as part of a drafting team. Modelling mock-up models for prototyping.
SOLAR CITY
Solar Thermal Power System
Design and installation of Solar City’s largest residential solar heating installation, a huge 30kW solar thermal array consisting of 94 solar water heaters, capable of reaching temperatures of up to 100°C. All of the pipe runs had to be hydraulically balanced, thermally efficient, and allow for considerable thermal expansion.
NEWSMITH PACIFIC LIMITED
Bread Handling Conveyor Systems
Designing upgrades and new product handling mechanisms. This involved site measurement, specification, layout, and machine concepting.
GLOBEX
Vapour Analyser
Rapid turnaround design for creating a user friendly breath analyser around a PCD, from concept to production read 3D prototype in 10 days, this was a fun challenge to deliver a 3D printable solution for batch scale manufacture.
UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY
Commercialisation Research Project
Commercial and technical validation project for a novel technology developed at Canterbury University with applications in pasteurisation. ANSYS CFD was used to optimise the test chamber geometry shown for particles to receive a uniform exposure to the treatment, prior to prototyping.
The project involved: project Management of commercially funded research within a New Zealand University; market research; fluid simulation Using ANSYS CFX to accelerate prototyping phase; early prototyping; co-ordinated experimental trials; IP and patent research.
ORIGINAL STONE
Concept design and validation for a unique automated manufacturing system.
GOOD BUGGER AWARD
January 2023
Jonathan Bousfield took away the Caliber Design Good Bugger award for Auckland this month. JB is one of our technical leads, and has been doing a stellar job of mentoring some of our new engineers, enabling them to thrive in some challenging client projects. Well done JB, we’re lucky to have you!
February 2021
“Jonathan Bousfield is the lead engineer on two projects for two clients, so he’s managing a team of Caliber engineers and the client for each of those. So, juggling many chainsaws. He’s also doing a sterling job on creating reports for both projects.”
May 2020
Jonathan was nominated by our two directors to receive the Good Bugger Award, to acknowledge the fantastic work he did on a design checking system for Freezing Solutions Limited (FSL).