Scottish Canals - the organisation like no other !Leading a fabulous team delivering Health, happiness, history, Heritage, Engineering projects, economic regeneration, climate change mitigation, Transportation, carbon reduction, Tourism, active travel, sustainability, biodiversity, physical activities, community well-being …….and lots lots more .

Health & well-being ……simply the most important sector in the world ! Leadership of Facilities Directorate, as part of the NHS Tayside Executive Leadership Team - providing Estates & Assets Strategy and Hard & Soft FM support services to clinical services in a challenging, demanding & time and life critical environment; c1500 staff , £120m pa Executive Director & part of Executive Leadership providing Strategic Leadership of Corporate wide support & Integrated FM Estates functions & capital programme. Former Local Government Chief Officer, experienced Director & General Manager; extensive strategy planning & operational delivery across a wide range of Public facing operations in FM & environmental/ community services sectors.Chartered member Royal Environmental Health Institute for Scotland, Chartered Waste Manager & Chartered Environmentalist.Facilities & Property Asset Manager, PPP/PFi Contract Management, Environmental Services, Hard & soft Facility Management, Local Government , Regulatory & Health care sectors professional. Experienced Multidisciplinary Service Manager, Prince 2 Project Manager & Project Director of capital projects.Managing change in complex politically charged & unionised environments.Director level Leadership of large scale public services, operating on a commercial & austerity measures (best value) proactive & reactive basis, in Partnership with trades unions (£110M pa, 1500 staff) & large Property portfolio & geographies. Property capital Infrastructure project delivery & FM Technical lead eg New Hospital initial agreement business case; delivered Waste recycling Treatment facilities, Lanarkshire Beatson Radiotherapy unit, Children’s Theatre suite Ninewells, new Monklands hospital Intensive care unit & live operating theatre refurbishment. Led a wide range of Community & Environmental Service contract Procurements & PFI projects.

General Manager, PSSD leads on overall facilities strategy, policy & project delivery, aligning to the corporate objectives of NHSL. Responsible for all facility & maintenance services performed to established standards. Providing leadership & guidance to the Property & Support Services Division  1200 staff , £100m pa• Hotel Services (Catering, Domestic, Hostess, Switchboard &Portering)•Capital Engineering, construction Services• Waste Management• Transport & Fleet• Laundry Regional Production & Linen Distribution• Energy Strategy & Management• Sustainability Strategy• Property Strategy • Asset Management Strategy• Strategic & Operational Management of Fire Safety The most senior technical officer within NHS Lanarkshire, responsible for advising NHS Lanarkshire on all property& building services matters, ensuring safe systems & procedures for 100 + properties owned or leased by NHS Lanarkshire. Designated Person for all relevant statutory undertakings associated with Property, including Nominated Officer (Fire) & interface with Scottish Fire & Rescue via joint concordat.In addition to inhouse delivery of soft & hard FM services at Monklands Hospital, I manage the PFI contracts at Stonehouse, Hairmyres & Wishaw General large acute Hospitals & the Hubco capital development programme:3 new integrated Primary Care sites. Lead Corporate Manager for the Board’s Capital Planning function & the Board’s property development & disposals strategy, Chairing Property Strategy Board. The General Manager (PSSD) works closely with decision makers in clinical & non clinical services to identify, recommend, develop, implement, & support cost-effective facilities services for all aspects of the organization. Interfacing at a corporate management/board level across the organization & beyond to develop regional & national strategy. Representing NHSL on national special interest groups eg HFS/Scottish Facilities Group, Frameworks 2 & Shared services Boards.

Chief Officer and Head of Service for Operational Services Group. General manager for a wide range of front line, public facing Operations across a diverse portfolio directly impacting on the public ; including Waste Management, Estates Management, Parks, Bereavement Services, Catering & Cleaning, Building/ Facilities Management Services, Fleet Management, Community safety , Litter Strategy, Sign Factory . c1500 staff, £40M pa. Inheriting multi disciplinary diverse services with some serious issues, I undertook a major service restructure, multiple service reviews and implemented improvement plans. This resulted in yielding in excess of £2million recurring savings per year, whilst developing staff, teams and self to put several of the services on a much more stable footing. This provided the Falkirk area public & Councillors with greater stability demonstrated through notably improved performance & customer care.

Senior Service Manager responsible for Operational service delivery; £13Mpa, 170 staff. Waste collection & disposal, including Operation of 8 Waste Management facilities, Commercial Waste business, major EU service contract procurement, Waste strategy, project management / development. Client manager for £8Mpa disposal & recycling contracts & procurement of future £150M Waste Treatment infrastructure arrangements.Main Technical advisor & Board member for West Lothian tertiary treatment OJEU procurement project.

Chief Officer responsible for range of front line Environmental Services, £40Mpa 1800 staff; Waste Management, Recycling, Environmental Health, Street Scene, Trading Standards, Catering & Cleaning, Parks& Amenity Services, Regulatory Services

Responsible for the strategic development, procurement & direct operational delivery of a wide remit of front line services - including; Waste Strategy , disposal & recycling services, Commercial Services functions & development of service strategy & improvement initiatives. Secured over £84million government grant funding, resulting in the introduction of a range of new recycling services leading to an increase in the recycling rate by 6 fold in 3 years (2010 government target of 30% from a low base, 3 years early). Deliverd the difficult stages ofnthe contorversial on street containerisation of city; management of planning , public consultation, stakeholder management of significant heritage, public backlash and conservation issues. Procurement of major EU infrastructure projects and lead officer for shared services with neighbouring lothians & borders Councils.Tender preparations and market testing for alternative business model (full preparations for outsourcing of refuse collection, a first for Scotland).

Instrumental in a key role for start of ambitious "sea change" in Waste Management through facilitated partnership approach with industry and Local Authority Lead officers. This was the precursor to the zero waste movement and circular economy.Senior Consultant (Waste Policy) & Project Manager for the original National Waste Strategy Programme - 15 staff & 120+ national partners' networks.Developed & implemented multi stakeholder partnership waste planning processInitiated PRINCE 2 Project Management technique & culture at SEPARepresenting SEPA, regular liaison with former Scottish Executive & reporting to SEPA CMT & Board levelDeveloped National & International Waste Policy at OECD (Paris) & DEFRA level as SEPA rep.Recruited, trained & established new team of 11 Area Coordinators & multisector national partnership network of 11 Waste Strategy Area Groups for development of first Area Waste Plans & National Waste Plan Scotland.

CEC's Lead officer for 5 Council Lothians & Borders Pathfinder Waste PPP Project- Secondment to Midlothian Council as Lead Technical Officer for start up 1st year & ongoing.Operational Service Delivery of front line customer focussed servicesDevelopment & constant adaptation of Service Strategy. Project Managed major EU Collection Service Contracts & larger Waste Disposal/treatment PPP procurement projects/contracting. Developed outline business cases for up to £1.5 billion waste infrastructure procurement projects.Waste services contract management (Client) (£30Mpa) & private sector partnership disposal & collection contracts. Management of capital programme (£17M

(2 posts), Fife then Stirling Teams Multidisciplinary regulatory environment (water, waste & air)Provision of advice to industry, environmental monitoring. Inspections and permitting/licensing. Liaison with partner statutory regulatory bodies eg Police, Planning.

General Environmental health regulatory duties eg licensing & inspectionCapital development & Operation of Waste Management facilities Waste strategy planning & contracting.Introduction of innovative/ "firsts" recycling schemes

General environmental health regulatory duties

Various front line seasonal holiday relief Operational posts within Waste Management (whilst studying at University)(cumulative 1 year)

Infantry soldier & Piper/ bandsmanK-Company, 1/51st Highland Division(TA), The Black Watch.