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Wakefield, GB

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Lead Project Engineer for the Tarbert Emergency Generation Project; a 150Mw open cycle gas turbine plant for generation in times of significant grid constraint. Key Responsibilities include:- Engineering Concept design development;- Management of engineering input into planning application process;- Managing the engineering of pre-FID design development.

Keadby, England, United Kingdom

Project Engineer on the development of the Keadby 3 Low Carbon CCGT project. Responsible for delivery of the DC'O engineering, requirements verification and construction elements of the design.

Keadby, England, United Kingdom

• Construction Engineer for the Keadby 2 Combined Cycle Gas Turbine project. This delivered the first 50HZ 9000HL. I was responsible for supporting the Lead Engineer, specifically on the grid connection and key.
• Lead delivery of the HV Grid Connection and metering interfaces
• Project Validation of electrical systems
• Designed mechanical and performance improvements to existing infastructure

Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• Lead Construction Engineer for Ferrybridge Multifuel 2. FM2 was a Waste to Energy project in West Yorkshire. It was the second plant to be built at Ferrybridge, and when complete would form the UK’s largest Energy from.
• Owners engineering on project
• Management of client/EPC interface and technical issues
• Technical risk management
• Design Validation

Ferrybridge

• Construction Engineer for Ferrybridge Multifuel 2. FM2 was a Waste to Energy project in West Yorkshire. It was the second plant to be built at Ferrybridge, and when complete would form the UK’s largest Energy from.
• Design verification of electrical and mechanical systems
• Design interface management
• Management of on-site validation works

Ferrybridge, England, United Kingdom

• Lead Engineer for the Hunterston Energy Storage Project. HESP was the an innovative co-located battery on a small wind farm. It was intended to be a testbed to evaluate the benefits of co-locating energy storage with.
• Developing engineering strategy, programme and resource estimates
• Co-ordination between engineering and key stakeholders
• Managed risk management (technical risk register and HAZID)
• Development of detailed design requirements for issue in ITT
• Management of OEM technical appraisal

• Lead Engineer for Orkney Storage Park Decommissioning. Orkney Storage Park was a battery storage project based on the island of Orkney. It was designed to trial a new containerised battery technology test facility..
• Discharging engineering responsibilities of Principal Designer role
• Co-ordination between engineering, project team and key stakeholders
• Managing & developing HAZDEM
• Managing & authoring of demolition scope

Ferrybridge, England, United Kingdom

• Project Engineer on Shetland Power Station. This project was to develop a new power station for the Shetland Islands. The plant needed to provide power, ancillary services, peaking and spinning reserve as the sole.
• Evaluation of concept design criteria (demand scenarios, fuel & environmental optioneering)
• Basis of design assessments (cooling, redundancy, environmental controls, boiler technology)
• Technical design specification development
• Technical risk management (development and ownership of technical risk register & HAZID)
• Contractual deviations management

Ferrybridge

• Project Engineer for the Keadby 2 Power Station project. Keadby 2 was a new combined cycle gas turbine project based adjacent to the existing Keadby power station near Scunthorpe, England.Key Responsibilities:
• Developing project design specifications.
• Managing discussions with OEMs & tracking contact deviations
• Concept design development
• Key optioneering studies (Cooling, Constructability, Layout)

Ferrybridge, England, United Kingdom

For the Ferrybridge Multifuel construction engineering secondment, I had the opportunity to work with a number of teams with in the construction engineering team. This gave me practical experience from multiple perspectives on a major construction project. This included project management, construction safety, quality management, planning and discipline.

• Project Engineer for the Lerwick Power Station. This project was to replace the power station on Shetland with one capable of reliably a efficiently meeting the growing island demand.Key Responsibilities
• Developing a specification for the replacement plant.
• Cross-discipline optioneering studies on key design elements
• Technical risk assessment and management

Ferrybridge

• Graduate project engineer supporting the development of the Abernedd project, a 450MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine project intended to be delivered near Port Talbot in Wales.Key Responsibilities:
• Managing technical, project and documentation meetings;
• Managing minutes, actions and communications with the OEM contractors;
• Managing contract deviations;
• Managing the development of HAZID;

Ferrybridge Power Station

A 2 year period within the Engineering Team, with 3 placements: Technology Engineering, Process Engineering and Project Engineering within SSE Generation.

Ferrybridge Power Station

Project Administrator for the SSE Generation Engineering Team’s knowledge capture and asset management platform.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Main projects included: Compilation of quality dossiers for a substantial oil pipeline project. Duties also included the compilation of mechanical completion documentation for a package of work destined for a gas platform off the Norwegian coast. During this time I also had the opportunity to experience other quality control related situations, such as.

Msc, Finance And Management

Activities and Societies: Student cinema, Hockey,Treasurer of Loughborough Student Cinema 2008-2009 Publicity Designer /Co-ordinator for.

Beng, Aeronautical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Mountain Biking, Hockey, Art & Design, Student Cinema, Trumpet PlayingWind Band Trumpeter 2005-2007 Tuxedo Swing.

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