Mahdi Ghafori Email & Phone Number

Birkenshaw, GB

West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

• Act as a key link between Clean Water Operations and other internal departments such as Water Quality and Finance to ensure the business plan for WRAP, energy and chemicals are delivered.
• Produce weekly reports on the performance and financial implications of assets in regards to chemical and energy usage, as well as alarm monitoring.
• Using excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to identify shortfalls in performance by producing user friendly PowerBI dashboards for data visualisation.
• Work closely with Supply System Engineers, PPMs, TSE and process engineers, as well as other business representatives to ensure that system configurations are optimised, and data records are effectively maintained and.
• Drive field performance to ensure the control room alarm volumes are manageable and to enable increased alarm analysis and remote reach-out activity by the 24/7 teams.

• Involved in Trust and Transparency projects by managing the extraction, transfer and loading (ETL) of internal and external data in support of major biodegradation and ecotoxicology projects within SEAC. Enhanced.
• Researching data for the purpose of supporting environmental risk assessments, including ecotoxicity data (NAT, LC50, EC50, NOEC), physio-chem and fate data (OECD guidelines).
• Developed rigorous user acceptance testing (UAT) plans for tools being developed in support of new database systems for SEAC and wider R&D, as part of Unilever Digital Innovation.
• Worked and liaised in a multi-disciplinary team which includes scientists, senior level management and external contractors to deliver on projects.
• Utilised and strengthened MS Excel skills in the curation and management of spreadsheets. Developed skills in Python coding and MS PowerBI.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Completed a year long industrial placement with Thames Water Ltd, the largest utilities company in the UK, assigned to the Operational Excellence team as a Research Scientist. Work closely with R&D and industry experts.
• Conducted chemical analysis to identify the components found within digested sludge flowing through re-circulation of digesters at Beckton STW, Crossness STW and Long Reach STW. Sampling from sites, sample preparation.
• Modelled struvite formation using data collected from mass balance, which led onto further research and studies into a research paper, which I presented at the Aqua Enviro European Biosolids and Organic Resources.
• Attended IWA Specialist Conference on Sludge Management in 2017 at Imperial College London, among leading researchers and industrialists within the sector.
• Feed pumps post centrifuge are failing due to wear and tear at Long Reach STW. Sampling of sludge flowing through the pumps then attempting to isolate the grit using various self-tested methodologies. Trial and error.
• Lab work including: feeding and maintaining chemostats, recording biogas production, conducting health checks (including analysis of Ammonia, VFA, Alkalinity and pH), dry solids % and volatile solids %, chemistry.

Urmston, Greater Manchester

• Involved within a tech start-up company established by students, for students, in society event management and advertisements.
• Initiating and maintaining contact with the student union bodies at various universities in the North of England
• Worked as a team coordinator of Altrincham Grammar School college student volunteers, setting their weekly roles/tasks and keeping up to date with their work via reports;
• Using project management tools such as Google Drive, Asana, Trello, AffiliateWindow and Slack;
• Learning to code in HTML and CSS for web development experience as part of revenue stream project.

Stockport, United Kingdom

• Working in the workshop on most weekends, charged with regular maintenance and repair of the products, use of specialised tools and equipment, hand crafting and assembly of products to a high quality finish;
• Project management to the extent of designing specific one-of-a-kind products for customers, maintaining communication between customer and technician;
• Sales management by handling transactions and working within the showroom, dealing with customers and unique clients.

Msc Energy And Environment, Chemical Engineering, Merit

• Studying modules revolving around pollution and environmental studies, such as 'Atmospheric Pollution: Impacts and Controls' and.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Chemical Engineering, First Class Honours With Diploma Of Industrial Studies

Activities and Societies: Ahlul Bayt Society (ABSoc), Chemical Engineering Society (ChemEngSoc)• Wide variety of IChemE accredited modules.