Nigel Harper

Director, Navitas Project Solutions Ltd
Director, Navitas PLM Solutions Ltd

Nigel is renowned for his ability to implement rapid improvement in organisations using cutting edge ‘lean construction’ tools & techniques. The approaches and tools Nigel employs are proven on (large and small scale) high profile projects and easily deployable. The emphasis is focussed on implementing with his clients’ teams rather than deploying large numbers of external people, also using his industry knowledge as a civil engineer with out of industry skills gained in lean deployment. Nigel’s career has very much been about delivery on capital projects and programmes and accordingly he acutely understands his clients’ needs to get maximum rapid return on change endeavours.

Career details and achievements

• Director of a company that specialises in defining, designing & implementing ‘lean construction’ tools & techniques for major project and organisations. Clients include Anglian Water, Tesco, Highways Agency, Laing O’Rourke, Costain.
• T5 Heathrow - Head of Demand Fulfilment Strategy (02 – 05) – responsible & accountable for the definition, design, implementation and operation of T5 civils ‘just-in-time’ production & logistics strategy (on secondment from Laing O’Rourke).
• Laing O’Rourke (93 – 06): Director Air Sector Portfolio – LOR Infrastructure,
  Director Malling Products – Pre –assembled products
  Director StrongForce – Post-Tensioning Company
  Project Leader – Royal Opera House, BA Waterside, Museum of Scotland, etc
• Kier (89 – 93) – Engineering and project management roles.

Skill detail, track record and services provided

Navitas enable our clients to deliver superior project execution & achieve sustained competitive advantage.

We supply:
3d digital prototyping software and support/training/outsource services - Siemens products
Production Mgt software and support/training/outsource services – SPS products
Consulting support services in process/productivity improvement

Our customers use either:
Software & training help -  our customers do it for themselves
Outsourced help – we do it for our customers
A combination of the two above

We are a construction led team – focussed on adding value and reducing cost and time in the capital delivery process - who have developed hands-on lean implementation approaches, tools and techniques translated from other lean industries.

We work with our clients by engaging their extensive resource to do things differently through knowledge transfer, coaching, mentoring and vitally ‘learning by doing’.

We mobilise and facilitate our clients’ resource to do things differently and more effectively – not our own.

Navitas have worked on multiple deployments with contractors and client bodies alike - large and small - with
notable success, hard results and testimonials. Current clients include Anglian Water, Tesco, Highways Agency, Laing O’Rourke, Costain, Byrne Bros etc.