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Oxford Engineering stands at the forefront of engineering innovation, blending advanced machining capabilities with industry-leading quality standards.

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Oxford Engineering Limited of Abingdon, Oxfordshire specialises in lean manufacturing, supply chain management and precision engineering to provide total manufacturing solutions.

Our mission is to be “an engineering company worthy of high regard” (as featured in Timothy Forster’s, ‘101 Great Mission Statements’ — How the world’s leading companies run their businesses. A collection of mission statements from leading organisations from all over the world, selected by experts in the field. Organisations such as Coca-Cola, Mc Donalds, Toyota, Ford, British Airways, Johnson&Johnson, American Express, Apple Computer, IBM, Microsoft, British Telecom, Bayer, Glaxo, Federal Express, Tesco, W H Smith…). We have the ability and the experience to provide cost competitive, lean, low risk manufacturing solutions to a wide variety of demanding industry needs.

Since its formation in 1968, Oxford Engineering Limited has built an extensive expertise in a number of selected focused industry sectors; namely Nuclear, Medical, Semi conductor / Instrumentation, Energy (Oil and Gas & Power Generation) and Aerospace.

The key to the company’s success is customer focus, with 90% of business resulting in repeat work from clients, many of whom have trusted the Company as a single source for over 25 years.

Years of Experience

Project Delivered

Continents Covered

We have worked closely with Oxford Engineering to fabricate hundreds of packagings and spares over many years, which have been manufactured to the highest standards. Oxford Engineering is a first-class facility, operated by skilled, dedicated, and friendly people.

Oxford Engineering is an outstanding supplier in quality, delivery and relationship.

It has been a pleasure working with everyone at Oxford Engineering over the last two years and thanks to everyone for all of your hard work and dedication to achieve both the Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 deadlines.

Oxford Engineering is the most proactive and strategic mechanical supplier. The relationship example is used as a benchmark to all suppliers.

Our Mission and Ethos

Our company values are a set of high level statements that describes how the company behaves. These company values are not a mission statement that describes what task the company aims to fulfil.

Our Mission Statement

to be an engineering company worthy of high regard

Our Vision

To strive for world-class

Our company values

To behave with integrity, honesty and openness in all our dealings
To continuously improve
To display mutual respect
To expect high performance standards
To maintain safe, good and clean working conditions above the industry norm
To provide equal opportunity and fairness
To provide job satisfaction and promote from within where possible
To train employees to release their full potential linked to our company goals
We believe that a well-trained workforce will outperform a company of untrained people no matter how much natural ability they may have.

Statement of Intent

This mission statement, vision and values are being published to let all interested parties know what we are about and where we are going. It should help all employees to pull in the same direction.

It is not just pretty words but an honest statement of intent by senior management.

We believe that if in every aspect of the business we warrant “high regard”, then success in both human and financial terms will follow.

This mission statement is featured in Timothy Forster’s, ‘101 Great Mission Statements’ – How the world’s leading companies run their businesses

Global Market

The global challenge in manufacturing is here to stay. We have embraced sustainable development. We have turned our focus to high added value, knowledge-based, competitive sustainable manufacturing.

Together with our customers, we are at the cornerstone of these changes, enabling them by design, experience and change management. Sometimes we are also holding back on the latest fads, as we believe that they might add complexity or reduce innovation. At heart, we embrace complexity rather than try to simplify at the cost of quality.

In any case, we push to make a better and cheaper product for our customers. This, if nothing else, is why we are building strategic alliances with all our customers.

About Karim Sekkat

Karim started his first venture while at business school, followed a path in investment banking and held various board positions of private and public companies in Europe before going at it alone. Karim has pursued a buy & build strategy over the last 10 years and is ranked in the Thames Valley 100. He is the recipient of multiple regional and national runner up awards, and a seasoned speaker at major business schools and for business and manufacturing magazines. His vision lead to its company being the only subcontract manufacturer in the United Kingdom awarded the investor in People Gold standard.

His vision is to continuously strive for world-class.