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Consultant to the nuclear industry. Specialist in end of generation transitioning to defuelling and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, project and programme management, shutdowns and turnarounds, sustainable development, nuclear safety, compliance, productivity, maintenance, project delivery, plant operations.

Harwell, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading the development of the Preliminary Safety Report (PSR) for the UK’s geological disposal facility for nuclear waste.

Harwell, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading the strategy for developing and maintaining RWM’s scientific and technological capability.Custodian of RWM’s requirements led technical knowledge base to support the implementation of geological disposal and waste management solutions. Leadership of the development and control of the technical programme to deliver a geological disposal facility.

Providing specialist services to the nuclear industry including: nuclear decommissioning, programme management, project management, outage management, plant management, maintenance and nuclear assurance.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading and coordinating a small team to provide oversight across 12 Magnox sites to assure the Tier One Site Management Partnership is delivering the agreed £7Bn contract to the agreed scope, schedule and cost milestones, pre contract termination September 2019.

Responsible for all project management aspects of establishing lifecycle costing for all options in managing the integrity of the Safestore Blower Houses due to accelerated building degradation. Capital project value of circa £30m. Completed a “cold eye review” of Berkeley Sites’ Management Summary Schedule v’s Life Time Plan Detailed Volumes to establish programme risks, verify assumptions and identify opportunities to optimise value for money against scope, schedule and cost.

Torness Nuclear Power Station

Providing impartial oversight and governance to the Power Station Management Team and EDF Energy Executive, to assure compliance with the nuclear site licence conditions and all other regulatory requirements. Identifying areas of best practice and those requiring improvement when benchmarked across the EDF Energy fleet and other nuclear operators.

Gloucester

Delivering high profile projects - integrating the demonstration of annual emergency exercises across 8 nuclear power stations into the Internal Regulation Assurance Department (INA) to meet the requirements of Site License Condition 11 (emergency arrangements) and Office for Nuclear Regulation.

Gloucester

Preparing Project Definition Documents to meet tight timescales for submission to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for the commencement of the pre-closure execution phase of the nuclear fleet’s Baseline Decommissioning Plan to secure the first phase of decommissioning funding of £1.5Bn.

Gloucester

Responsible for specifying and implementing a strategy across 8 nuclear power stations and 2 corporate offices to ensure EDF Energy, Existing Nuclear, achieves the ambition of being a leader in sustainability.

Gloucester

Responsible for defining, developing, implementing and managing strategies to drive substantial improvement within outage performance across EDF Energy’s fleet of 8 nuclear power stations.

Heysham 2 Nuclear Power Station

Responsible for all strategic matters and programme management of statutory outages of typically £20 to 25m cap expenditure, 55 day duration and 1000 FTE’s including contract partners and guiding tactical delivery.

Member of a transition team to deploy aligned commercial policies, processes and procedures across 11 sites. Responsible for managing a team of Category Managers.

Hinkley Point A Nuclear Power Station

Managed a department of 225 staff of day maintenance, health physics, day operations and site services teams and 24/7 shift operations teams, with full profit and loss responsibility for a departmental budget of circa £15m. Setting and enforcing departmental policy and standards for production, maintenance and site support.

Hinkley Point A Nuclear Power Station

Managed a technical and industrial workforce of 120 staff to achieve the maintenance plan objectives and site support infrastructure needs. Directed resource utilisation and set policy and strategy for preventative and breakdown maintenance to meet the site’s statutory maintenance schedule requirement, long-term plan, daily plan and emergent work requirements.

Hinkley Point A Nuclear Power Station

Responsible for the management of a multi-skilled shift team of 25 staff to ensure the site's production targets were met and ensuring nuclear, environmental, plant and personal safety.

Hinkley Point A Nuclear Power Station

12 years of shift experience.Positions Held: Assistant Shift Manager (Control Room and Pant); Reactor Desk Engineer; Turbine Hall Engineer.

Hinkley Point B Nuclear Power Station

Prepared engineering contracts and subsequently managed awarded contract.Conceived and designed plant modifications and prepared submissions for approval.

4 year Marine Engineering apprenticeship including extensive Worldwide travel.