Jonathan Bousfield, Technical Lead at Caliber Design
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.
    Caliber Design has experience in the Biofuel industry
    Caliber Design has experience in the Biofuel industry
    Caliber Design has experience in the Biofuel industry
    Caliber has experience in the Agriculture industry
    Caliber has experience in the Aerospace industry
    Caliber Design has experience in the Biofuel industry
    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

    Scott logo
    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.

    Canterbury Uni - Commercialisation Research Project
    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.

    Sky City Generator Replacement Project

    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’.

    Tasti is a client of Caliber Design
    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
    • Detailed drafting using either SolidWorks or AutoCAD Inventor 3D CAD

    • Concept Design and 3D concept Modelling

    • Structural Detail Drawings

    • Purchasing and procurement

    • Design of Belt Driven and Band Driven roller conveyor sets

    • Sheet metal profiles and assemblies, folded and welded parts

    SOLAR ENGINEERING

    • Electrical, Thermal, Mechanical design of solar thermal system

    • AutoCAD Drafting of electrical and pipe schematic

    • 3D modelling and shading analysis with Trimble SketchUp

    • Solar simulation and design using excel, T-Sol, PVSYS, HOMER

    • Managed design, construction and commissioning

    Canterbury Uni - Commercialisation Research Project

    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

    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.

    Canterbury Uni - Commercialisation Research Project

    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

    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.

    Canterbury Uni - Commercialisation Research Project

    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.

    Canterbury Uni - Commercialisation Research Project

    ORIGINAL STONE

    Concept design and validation for a unique automated manufacturing system.

    Jonathan Bousfield, recipient of the Caliber Design good bugger award

    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).

    Career development at Caliber, Jonathan Bousfield
    Jonathan Bousfield, Caliber Design Engineer