Andy Giles

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Thermal/Nuclear Power Plant Outage & Projects Manager
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Doncaster, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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Engineering, outage, projects, maintenance and management career spanning 25 years in the heavy industrial environment of coal, gas fired and nuclear electricity generation. Degree qualified, chartered mechanical engineer and qualified projects manager with Association of Project Management (APM) Practitioner Qualification (APMPQ). Currently responsible for outage strategy, planning and delivery at a 2000MW power station and project troubleshooting across the EDF Fleet.

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Thermal/Nuclear Power Plant Outage & Projects Manager
Andy Giles Work Experience Details
  • Edf (Uk)
    Edf Fleet Services Outage And Projects Manager
    Edf (Uk) Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
    West Burton B Ccgt, Lincoln, Uk
    Set up and managent of the EDF Energy Thermal Generation Fleet Services team, tasked with performing steam turbine outages plus project management and outage management across the fleet. In addition to managing the team I personally managed high profile projects at Dungeness nuclear power station and Sizewell nuclear power station and I managed outages at West Burton B CCGT.
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  • Edf Energy
    Outage Manager
    Edf Energy Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
    Cottam Power Station
    Responsible for determining outage strategy and planning and executing delivery for a 2000MW coal fired power station within a challenging commercial landscape. End to end remit including scope definition, generation of business case, procurement and contracting strategy, securing investment, delivery of scope, compliance with HSE legislation, control of contracts, management of staff and budgets. Team size varies between 4 and 200 according to timing of outage cycle.Undertake secondments to other parts of the business including nuclear and CCGT in a project management troubleshooting and assistance capacity.
  • Edf Energy
    Fleet Projects Team Manager
    Edf Energy Jun 2012 - Nov 2016
    Cottam & West Burton Power Stations
    Responsibility for delivering all capital projects and programmes across the EDF Energy coal fleet. The purpose of this role was to bring greater professional standards to EDF Energy’s project management process and to improve certainty of outcome from the projects. During this period I have:• Selected and built a team of 33 project managers, planners and engineers to deliver a project portfolio of circa £80m per annum. These were a mixture of full time internal staff and temporary agency staff. • Defined, designed and managed the governance processes by which oversight and control of the team’s activities can be achieved. • Defined and managed the project reporting processes focusing on safety, quality, progress to program, spend and risk. • Negotiated and managed contracts and contractual relationships with the key suppliers• Carried out a troubleshooter role when issues have arisen, both within my team’s projects and within other areas of the business. Most recent role was Event Recovery Manager/Outage Manager for West Burton 2014 outage season when a series of events required significant intervention.
  • Edf Energy
    Capex Project Team Manager
    Edf Energy Oct 2009 - Jun 2012
    Cottam Power Station
    A new role created to manage safe delivery of all capital projects at Cottam, to programme and to cost. Specific responsibilities include:• Creation and management of the Cottam projects team consisting of 3 permanent project managers and multiple transient project managers• Management and delivery of the £27m statutory outage programme with responsibility for over 1000 staff at peak times.• Management and delivery of the £20m non outage CAPEX programme, consisting of approximately 60 individual projects ranging from plant and infrastructure refurbishment at major plant modifications and enhancements such as biomass semi-direct injection installation and LP turbine repairs.
  • Edf Energy
    Turbine & Station Shutdown Outage Manager
    Edf Energy May 2009 - Oct 2009
    Cottam Power Station
    A secondment into a project and programme manager role, ensuring delivery of three business critical activities which had been identified as failing and presenting a risk to the company. The activities were all at Cottam Power Station and included:• Turbine outage manager – taking control of and ensuring the £9m, 16 week critical path activities of CMV replacement; HP turbine replant and turbine outage ran safely, within budget and ahead of programme• HP heater replant manager – management of the in house £12m replacement programme of Cottam’s HP heaters which took place concurrently with major outages and a station shutdown creating significant interface and plant availability risk• Total station shutdown manager – managing operational and maintenance activities on the first complete station shutdown in Cottam’s 40 year history
  • Edf Energy
    Fleet Reliability Engineering Manager
    Edf Energy Jun 2008 - May 2009
    Cottam & West Burton Power Stations
    Secondment into senior management, with responsibility for all short and medium term engineering at Cottam and West Burton Power Stations. Team consisted of 3 direct report managers and 180 staff across the two sites. Budget responsibility was £24m OPEX and £10m CAPEX. Achievements included:
  • Edfenergy
    Fleet Turbine Group Manager
    Edfenergy Jan 2002 - May 2008
    Cottam And West Burton Power Stations
    Managing mixed discipline engineering team of 53 people across Cottam and West Burton coal fired 2000MW power stations. Managing short medium and long term maintenance , statutory and plant improvement activities. Budget accountability £6m OPEX, £23m CAPEX.Completed 9 month secondment as fleet engineering manager with resposibility for all engineering activites across the two sites.
  • Edf Energy
    Turbine And Water Preparation Team Manager
    Edf Energy Jun 2001 - Mar 2005
    Cottam Power Station
    Responsibility for all turbine, auxiliary and feed water plant inclusive of water treatment and reverse osmosis plant. Management and formulation of annual budgets in excess of £1.5m and a team of 13 craftsmen, engineers and apprentices. Involvement in many activities and projects outside the team included:• Management of the final phase of the 3A cooling tower civil repair project with a value of £2m.• Interviewing and appointing of Engineering and Commercial Team Leaders and selection of graduate and undergraduate engineers.• Research, assessment, testing and implementation of biomass and ‘energy from waste’ co-firing projects.• Pilot member of the London Electricity Management Development Programme. • Management of the annual turbine outages including 2004 Unit 1 turbine outage, delivering within budget and reduction of programme length from 12 weeks to only 8 weeks.• Project manager for the Cottam FGD building programme Intensive Care Committee.
  • Powergen
    Boiler & Site Services Task Area Manager
    Powergen Oct 2000 - Jun 2001
    Cottam Power Station
    Assumed role of Boiler Task Area Manager in addition to Engineering Maintenance Support Manager. Concurrent management of two teams of nine men with annual budgets of £801k and £2,430k respectively, managing maintenance activities, projects, modifications to the plant and all issues up to, during and after the change of plant ownership in December 2000. Appointed temporary Engineering Manager in February 2001, in addition to existing roles, to cover current Engineering Manager during times of absence with responsibility for 70 personnel and all engineering activities on site.
  • Powergen
    Site Services Team Manager
    Powergen Oct 1999 - Oct 2000
    Cottam Power Station
    Lead and managed a team of nine men of mixed disciplines and backgrounds. Responsibilities included management of annual budgets totalling £2.2m for maintenance and project work in mechanical, electrical and civil engineering disciplines. In addition, management of large cross station contracts ensuring compliance with a wide range of legislative requirements. Achievements included:• Successful management of the project to repair the concrete structure of 3A cooling tower to a programme of 1 year 9 months and a budget of £2m.• Engineered a system for incineration of an environmentally hazardous waste in a Cottam boiler. This was the first system to in the world to be operationally proven to dispose of this material in a conventional boiler. The system will provide Cottam with a potential income stream of up to £2m per annum with a capital cost of approximately £20k and operational costs of less than £30k per annum.
  • Edf Energy
    Turbine Team Engineer
    Edf Energy Oct 1996 - Oct 1999
    Cottam & West Burton Power Stations
    Appointed to provide quality engineering support within turbine and rotating plant areas. Progression of commercially important engineering projects to a successful conclusion and accountability for the management of a number of contracts and budgets with combined values of £295k in addition to outage budgets of £280k. Achievements included:• Successfully engineered the in situ repair of a failed High Pressure (HP) heater initially cost estimated by Original Equipment Manufacturer in excess of £300k and 6 months down time. Project was successfully completed within 5 months at 60% less than projected cost. • Temporarily promoted to Team Leader managing the step change of workforce size reduction, making commercially based decisions and having accountability for the team whilst gaining exposure to management issues.• Evolved an innovative in-situ HP heater spark erosion system for removal of section drain cracking at a cost of £14k per unit taking 2 weeks, as opposed to cheapest alternative mechanical methods costing in excess of £400k with a minimum down time of 12 weeks. • Co-ordinated and managed four major unit outages using largely in house resources with budgets totalling £280k each.
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  • Powergen
    Graduate Engineer
    Powergen Sep 1994 - Oct 1996
    Kingsnorth Power Station
    Employed on a 2 year Graduate Engineer training programme at Kingsnorth Power Station during which three periods of 3 months were spent within the Fuel Supply and Trading, Pool Operations and Strategy departments respectively at PowerGen Headquarters gaining valuable commercial exposure. Achievements included: • Designed, developed and implemented a company wide major plant failure insurance claiming system, providing PowerGen with an insurer approved semi-automated system of calculating claims in excess of £1m. • Managed two major Chrome/Molybdenum/Vanadium (CMV) pipe and Turbine auxiliary plant system outages at Kingsnorth PS with budgets of £300k each.• Developed, wrote and installed computer systems for gas arbitrage and coal stock endurance prediction.• 3 month secondment to Rye House CCGT to assist outage management and carry out risk assessment into deviation from OEM service recommendations and spares holding for the GTs. Recommendations adopted, resulted in annual savings of approximately £1m.
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Mechanical Engineering Project Management Team Management Creative Problem Solving Power Generation Management Factory Engineering Energy Stakeholder Management Turbines Maintenance And Repair Gas Coal Power Plants Project Engineering Project Planning Contract Management Commissioning Change Management Engineering Management Leadership Renewable Energy

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