I am a Chartered Chemical Engineer (CEng, MIChemE) currently working as an Engineering and Maintenance Delivery Manager at Sellafield Ltd. I am the current chair of the IChemE Cumbria Members Group, was the 2023 IChemE nominee for the Karen Burt Memorial Award for best newly chartered female engineer, and was rated Highly Commended as a 2023 Finalist in the IChemE Global Awards in the Young Industrialist category.I have had extensive experience on new and ageing operational process/chemical systems, in particular within effluent management and building utilities and services. I am a designated subject matter expert in my facility’s effluent systems and have had wide experience in equipment reliability, asset condition assessment and investment recommendations and process monitoring, as well as responding to breakdowns and incidents. I have led investigations and fed back key learning points to management as well as nuclear regulators, and ensured as part of the assessment process that the operations team leaders are familiar with recent learning. As part of my role on an active, operational facility, I have regularly interfaced with people from a variety of backgrounds and both internal and external stakeholders, and have built up a good understanding of how to vary communications based on different requirements. I have also been on two Peer Reviews following an application and selection process with the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO). The purpose of my first review was to share knowledge across engineering on another nuclear facility; I spent 3 weeks on a nuclear power station in mainland Europe providing feedback on the engineering department performance and structure. For my second review, I acted as part of the review team on my own facility, reviewing an area that was new to me and providing facility knowledge to the wider WANO team. I have been in a line management role since 2022, and currently have line management responsibilities for a team of plant engineers who deliver improvement work and carry out asset condition assessments on an operational facility. I previously managed trainees which required a higher level of technical coaching.
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