John O’Connor, the principal consultant at Adamant International, has worked in the textile industry for over 50 years, and as a consultant for the past 30 years. John has managed the largest textile vertical operations in Australia predominately in the woven fabric sector.

A Diploma in Business Management and certified as an Associate of the Textile Institute underpin the vast experience in textile manufacturing.

Either as a manager or as a consultant, John has been engaged to elevate performance – albeit in volume, reduced off-quality, productivity, plant reliability by engaging employees to take ownership of assets and processes and having them adopt a preparedness for cross-skilling and up-skilling. Mentoring the management and supervisory teams in the process of establishing robust process controls and procedures with regular auditing to ensure compliance.

Aligning those support structures supporting the production process to the timeliness of their service delivery.

John has experience across apparel, home textiles, industrial filtration & outdoor fabrics sectors. He has also project managed textile plant relocation from various parts of the world mainly into Asia.

This knowledge, experience and business acumen that John brings offers the opportunity to textile manufacturing organizations to fast track sustainable business improvement projects.