Will Millar Email & Phone Number

Manager of the Statutory Support Group within the Classification Group. Providing guidance to marine surveyors and shipowners and operators on the requirements of all major statutory conventions including SOLAS, MARPOL, Load Line and COLREGS. Assisting in the implementation of new statutory requirements to new and existing ships. Quality assurance work vetting the statutory certification of ships and monitoring the quality of ship survey reports.

London, United Kingdom

Providing guidance to marine surveyors and shipowners and operators on the requirements of all major statutory conventions including SOLAS, MARPOL, Load Line and COLREGS. Assisting in the implementation of new statutory requirements to new and existing ships. Quality assurance work vetting the statutory certification of ships and monitoring the quality of ship survey reports.

Shanghai, China

Design approval of fire protection, LSA, load line, pilot boarding and bridge arrangements for a wide range of ship types, such as chemical tankers including an orange juice carriers, crude oil and product tankers from small bunker tankers, aframax, panamax to VLCCs, bulk carriers from handysize to capesize and VLOCs, container ships from 150teu feeders to 6800teu post-panamax capacity, LNG & LPG carriers, ro-ro cargo ships, general cargo / multi-purpose ships, escort tugs, anchor handling tugs, offshore supply vessels, dredgers, work boats, motor yachts, cargo transfer pontoons, fall-pipe rock dumper vessels, research vessels, passenger ships, floating docks, self-unloading propelled barges and cable layers. Leading the Shanghai Plan Approval fire & safety section and ensuring the overall standard and volume of work output for the section. Issuing survey instructions to surveyors and advising shipyards and owners on issues related to carriage of dangerous goods and other hazardous cargoes on ships.Pre-site project manager for a series of handymax 37,5k dwt bulk carriers being built for Greek and Croatian owners in a Shipyard on the Yangtze river near Jiangyin. Responsible for managing the overall plan approval process for the project ensuring timely return of plans. Acting as point of contact for the owner, liaising between ship owner, designer and shipyard to overcome any design issues that arise. Carrying out third party certification (Type Approval) services of fire protection products for China based clients on behalf of Lloyd's Register Verification.Giving training presentations on SOLAS, carriage of dangerous goods, structural fire protection, type approval and EC/MED product certification to delegates on the statutory survey course and graduate training course.

London, Shanghai & Busan

Approval of cargo ship plans against appropriate statutory requirements for the Lloyd’s Register Shanghai office. Principally, plan approval of the arrangements of fire protection, fire fighting systems, life saving appliances, Load Line items, bridge visibility, navigation lights, pilot boarding, SOPEP/SMPEP manuals and cargo securing manuals on new construction and existing cargo ships.Training and supervising new staff as well graduate surveyors passing through the office.A short term assignment in Lloyd's Register Busan Office assisting ease their high work load and helping to provide technical consistency across the region.

Watford, United Kingdom

Leading the fire resistance assessments section, which conducts detailed analyses of the design of elements of building construction, evaluating the fire resistance. Advising clients on optimum fire testing schedules and analysis procedures.Representing BRE on the Fire Test Study Group technical committee which develops and governs UK fire resistance assessment procedures.Conducting and reporting fire resistance tests to BS, IMO, European and other International Standards on a wide range of building construction products.Assessing the fire resistance performance of elements of building construction.Witnessing and reporting fire resistance tests in other laboratories in the UK and overseas.Developing software for the analysis of structural steelwork fire resistance test data to the ASFP methodology and European standard.

Borehamwood, Uk

Conducting and reporting fire resistance tests to BS, IMO, European and other Standards on a wide range of building construction products.Responsibilities included advising/liaising with clients and supervising technical staff.

M.Sc., Fire Safety Engineering

B.Eng, Building Services Engineering