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London, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading safety input and environmental programmes on engineering designs, asset-support projects and proposals. Chairman of hazard and fault identification reviews (HAZID/ENVID, HAZOP, HAZCON and WEHRA).Produced documentation in support of regulatory licensing (PPC, COMAH, environmental modelling and monitoring).

Managed Process Safety Department with over 40 professional personnel.Overall technical responsibility for quality of discipline documentation on all projects (hazard and fault identification, risk assessments and design to ALARP, layout and inherent safety studies, setting safety instrumented system targets and verification, fire protection design, input to safety cases).Led multi-disciplinary safety review meetings at key stages on all projects (attended by the Engineering Director, all Chief and Lead Engineers, Project Engineering Manager), implemented findings and managed lessons learnt as part of continuous improvement.Supported construction site HSE teams to implement inherent safety and reduce risk from accidents.Planned projects and proposals, presented to clients and CB&I’s senior management.Global Functional Leader for process safety, chaired working group of international chief engineers. Responsible for all corporate safety procedures.

Led design projects in high-hazard industries.LNG design projects (FEED and EPC).• Led safety engineering design team’s work including hazard and fault identification, consequence analysis using PHAST, risk assessment and interpretation of recommendations, inherent safety design, SIL requirements and validation, active and passive fire protection, fire and gas detection, escape and evacuation, safety action management.• Managed specialist subcontractors providing explosion analysis and air quality modelling.• Defined and met requirements for As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) and Best Available Techniques (BAT); supported safety case led by client.• Liaised directly with client’s project management team.Other projects (design phases and on construction sites) included Buzzard Platforms, Russia-China Pipeline, South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), South Hook LNG Terminal construction, Interconnector Terminal.• Prepared design documentation (typically ENVID, Emissions and Waste Schedule from heat and mass balances, Environmental Aspects Register, BAT Assessment, Environmental Performance Standards, vendor document compliance review).• Input to selection of power generation equipment, specifying emission and monitoring requirements, dispersion modelling and vendor review.• Developed licensing documentation including a major PPC permit application, management of EIA contractors, liaison with stakeholders and regulators.• Managed site environmental programme during construction of South Hook LNG Terminal, notably treatment of site runoff and supervision of contaminated land remediation contract.

Managed teams providing consultancy services in process safety and flow assurance.Produced documentation for safety cases (nuclear and industrial), led development and marketing of Electronic Safety Case product.Led development programme to produce a software package to model hydrogen sulphide scavenging, managed Physical Processes Panel of Effluent Processing Club, provided input to Separation Processes Service.Developed, piloted and operated processes for effluent treatment including radionuclide decontamination from potable water, heavy metal removal, oil-water separation and clean-up of solvent-contaminated groundwater. Managed effluent treatment plant at pharmaceutical site.

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical Engineering, First Class Hons.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering