{"id":8175,"date":"2022-09-01T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/?post_type=leadership&#038;p=8175"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:41:57","slug":"neville-tranter","status":"publish","type":"leadership","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/our-experts\/neville-tranter\/","title":{"rendered":"Neville Tranter"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8175\" class=\"elementor elementor-8175\" data-elementor-post-type=\"leadership\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c9cbdf6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"1647\" data-id=\"c9cbdf6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d0a6276\" data-eae-slider=\"1646\" data-id=\"d0a6276\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7798e7b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7798e7b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Following completion of his degree in Metallurgy at the University of Birmingham, Neville worked as a Graduate Heat Treatment Engineer at Wallwork Heat Treatment. 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After Intertek, Neville moved to Goodrich Corporation as a Materials Engineer where he investigated failures, non-conformance and manufacturing issues on hydraulic and electric aerospace actuation systems. 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