Redditch-based Heller Machine Tools Ltd (www.heller.biz) has appointed John Dineen as the company’s customer services manager.

He started working at Heller in 1992 as an apprentice mechanical engineer and later became a mechanical fitter, helping to build the MCP series of four-axis horizontal machining centres; and while on secondment to the parent company’s headquarters in Germany, he was instrumental in developing the MC16 HMC for production in the UK.

Appointed a project manager in 2003, his first job was installing a 12-machine system in Toyota’s Deeside factory. In his latest role, he is responsible for a team of seven field engineers and five office staff.