Who are we...
Instrumentel Limited was incorporated in 2001 as a venture capital backed spin-out from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
at the University of Leeds and has since developed to become a world-leader in the design and manufacture of telemetry systems
for extreme and inaccessible environments.
Instrumentel’s condition-based maintenance systems are being increasingly adopted by asset owners, operators and maintainers in the Rail, Automotive, Industrial and Defence sectors.
Meet The Team
Josh Kimberling
Managing DirectorAs Managing Director at Instrumentel, Joshua Kimberling is a commercial leader with a proven track record. He excels at developing strategic partnerships and driving results across extreme environments like F1 and rail. His expertise combines commercial strategy with a focus on saving customers time, carbon, and cost.
Jonathan Birch
Technical DirectorAs Technical Director at Instrumentel, Dr. Jonathan Birch is a technology leader with a proven track record. He excels at developing asset monitoring solutions and driving projects in extreme environments like the rail industry. His expertise combines advanced hardware, software, and predictive analytics.
Sam Bussey
Sales DirectorLeading the Sales Team, Sam brings significant engineering and technology experience to Instrumentel. With deep technical and operational expertise, he drives projects for customers in various sectors, including rail aerospace and automotive. His ability to combine technical competence with real-world context delivers new, actionable insights that improve performance.
Chris Fan
Programme ManagerChris Fan is an accomplished programme manager with over 15 years of experience. Starting as a mechanical engineer, he has successfully led projects from inception to completion across the automotive, nuclear, and rail sectors. Prince 2 qualified, he specialises in managing resources, budgets, and stakeholders to ensure project success.
Tim Suggett
Hardware LeadTim has over 25 years of Electronic and RF design experience and has worked on products ranging from mass production commercial products to low volume military devices. Tim spent most of his career prior to joining Instrumentel, designing Military and Security monitoring products for use in harsh environments.
Lee Barker
Firmware LeadAs the Lead Firmware Engineer, Lee Barker heads a team of engineers at Instrumentel. A 2012 graduate of the University of Leeds with a first-class master's degree, his expertise in firmware and software development has been crucial to the company's technology. Lee specializes in creating programs for the remote retrieval and analysis of real-world data.
Nick Brady
Software LeadNick has over a decade of experience in the rail sector, specializing in the design and development of critical applications. He has built and managed cloud and edge software across all major operating systems and web browsers, while also ensuring the reliability of core infrastructure.
Bradley Ayres
Data Science LeadBradley specialises in solving complex industrial challenges using advanced machine learning. As Lead Data Scientist, he builds and deploys robust solutions, from computer vision to predictive analytics, with a clear focus on turning raw data into measurable and impactful business results.
We are part of Unipart Group
We are one of Britain’s largest employee-owned companies, with the majority of shares being held by employees. But when the group formed nearly three decades ago, it was ideas rather than size that shaped our fortunes.
Instrumentel became part of an even bigger family when acquired by Unipart Rail in early 2017. The Unipart Group employs thousands of employees worldwide and has an annual turnover of approximately £750million. It is a leading UK manufacturer, full service logistics provider and consultant in operational excellence.
At the heart of our Group is The Unipart Way – our standard way of working that has been developed over more than 20 years.
It is our proven method of generating our high levels of employee engagement, which deliver a wide range of benefits for all our customers.
Unipart people consistently strive to deliver better than expected results through their high levels of engagement, underpinned by our operational excellence.
It’s what we call Performance through Engagement.
Other Unipart Divisions
Through its global operations, Unipart works with clients across a wide range of sectors including automotive, technology, financial services, healthcare, utilities, industrial, manufacturing, rail, retail and distribution, aerospace and defence, and the public sector.
The Unipart Way
The Unipart Way provides a foundation for innovation and organisational improvement on a global basis. When implemented across multiple sites or in multiple countries, it can provide you with a standard approach and measures that enable people to share best practise more easily and effectively.
Whether that means managing a complex global supply chain or sharing problem solving skills, The Unipart Way has already been used successfully to unlock the potential of businesses around the world in almost any sector. It offers people the ability to have ‘one way’ of evaluating and improving that can connect diverse elements of even the most complex businesses.
The Unipart Way provides a foundation for innovation and organisational improvement on a global basis. When implemented across multiple sites or in multiple countries, it can provide you with a standard approach and measures that enable people to share best practise more easily and effectively.
Whether that means managing a complex global supply chain or sharing problem solving skills, The Unipart Way has already been used successfully to unlock the potential of businesses around the world in almost any sector. It offers people the ability to have ‘one way’ of evaluating and improving that can connect diverse elements of even the most complex businesses.
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