Richard Slater

Richard Slater is an accomplished operations and engineering professional with extensive experience in managing manufacturing processes and project delivery in the optical and engineering sectors. Since February 2020, Richard has held the position of Operations Manager at Snap-on, preceding this role with similar responsibilities at Sigmavision Ltd and M-Solv Ltd, where responsibilities included project engineering for precision systems. Earlier in the career, Richard served as Director of Manufacturing at Film Optics Ltd, overseeing the production of specialist optical films, and held the Engineering Manager position at Microsharp Corporation Ltd, focusing on bespoke micro-structured optical films. Richard's foundational experience includes process development at Arjo Wiggins for paper coating technologies. Richard holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bristol.