Chartered Control & Instrumentation Engineer with Project

Management experience within the Process Industries

Key Skills and Experience

1. Lead engineer on all forms of control and measurement system - hazardous and safe area: Costing / specification, design, purchase, build, testing, installation and commissioning of control and safety systems for busy contracting firm. Documentation of ATEX hazardous area design. Specific expertise in combustion management systems and fired process plant. Fire detection and protection. ESD systems. Application of IEC61508/61511.

2. Hardware and software engineering of DCS, PLC and SCADA systems: Fisher Provox, Emerson DeltaV, Allen Bradley RS Logix and PanelBuilder, Siemens STEP 7 and ProTool and others. System specification, electrical design, programming and factory and site acceptance testing. Design and commissioning of Fieldbus systems. Integration of software with third party suppliers.

3. Management of project engineering and contractual issues: Design concept / quotation stage through acceptance trials to long term service and support. Responsible for field control of installation contractors as well as internal engineering resources. AUTOCAD / EPLAN proficient.

4. Testing, site installation, commissioning, repair and service of process equipment: Contracts across a wide range of process industries in U.K., E.U and Far East. High degree of process and mechanical engineering skills honed by work in remote locations. Site survey, retrofit design, advising on operating procedures and training programmes.

5. Software validation for batch and continuous plant: Management of Change implementation on top tier COMAH site. Development of test and commissioning procedures. Software / human factor investigation of plant incidents. Configuration design approval.

Qualifications

M.IET - C.Eng

BEng(Hon) Instrumentation & Control Engineering.

Universityof Teesside1989 - 1992

BTEC Industrial Measurement & Control

Mathematics 4

Electronics 4

LonglandsCollegeof Further Education 1986 - 1989

8 'O' Levels.

English Martyrs R.C. Comprehensive > 1986

Courses

Siemens Step 7

Emerson Provox Continuous

Emerson Provox Batch

Emerson Delta V Implementation

EEMUA 191 Alarm Management

Employment History

Commissioning Engineer - 3 month contract

Cargill Manchester Wheat Project

June 2007 - September 2007

Inspection, test and commissioning of solids handling plant in food manufacturing - Zone 20/22 to Foxboro IA DCS (+3000 I/O continuous plant). Day-to-day area control of commissioning technicians on multi-national team - control of test procedures, Documentation and progress reporting. ESD engineering using Pilz safety PLC on conveyors, escalators, mills, etc. Supervision and design of remedial installation work. Extensive use of remote I/O on Profibus networks.

Process Control Engineer

Chemtura Manufacturing UK. - Speciality Chemical Manufacturer (Formerly Great Lakes)

January 2005 - June 2007

DCS engineer covering project and support design, configuration and commissioning on +4000 I/O batch (Unit operations. Recipe management. Wash / Product compatibility protocols) and continuous processes (Distillation / Absorption columns. Effluent treatment)

Engineering support - troubleshooting site operations across DCS, PLC and SCADA systems. Responsible for ensuring operational standards of "tune access" activities. Policing of system

security and training / validation of access levels. Technical investigation reporting to incident review committee.

Team liaison with Operations, Maintenance and third party contractors. Lead C & I resource - Responsible Person - on software team. Plant specialist on pigged product transfer / filling system. Site safety duties.

Lead E. C & I Engineer / Project Engineer

Hirt Combustion Engineers Ltd. - Thermal/Catalytic Oxidiser Systems Manufacturer

August 2004 - January 2005

Responsible for delivery of all electrical, instrument and control engineering to existing customers and new projects. Scheduling and overseeing of internal and external manpower. Responsible for design approval and inspection systems.

Project Engineer

Hirt Combustion Engineers Ltd. - Thermal/Catalytic Oxidiser Systems Manufacturer

2002 - 2004

Project planning and contract management across all disciplines on multiple projects >£200,000, heading an engineering and administration team. Wide experience dealing with both European and American regulations. Scheduling and overseeing of internal and external manpower. Control of transport and logistics. Responsible for design approval and inspection systems.

Lead C & I engineer for company providing technical support to colleagues. Acting as Shanks Group C & I consultant, carried out site survey and design of overspill protection / level gauging system for a 70 vessel, Zone 1 tank farm.

Instrument & Control Engineer

Hirt Combustion Engineers Ltd. - Thermal/Catalytic Oxidiser Systems Manufacturer

1996 - 2002

Full range of C & I design, project management and commissioning in tobacco, glass, water, chemical, petrochemical, food and flexographic printing industries;

Airco DIET - China, Thailand and Philippines.

Philip Morris - Germany, U.S.A.

Glaverbel - Belgium

Pilkington - Brazil

Interprojekt - Turkey

Philips Lighting, Yakult - Holland.

BP, Croda Solvents, DSM Resins, Lambsons, Warwick Int., Grampian Water, Dublin Water, Shanks Group, Birdseye Walls, Bernard Matthews, Owens, Corning, Rolls-Royce, Bredero Shaw, Elementis, Tarmac and others - U.K and Europe.

Projects Co-ordinator

Endress + Hauser Ltd. - Instrumentation Manufacturer

1995 - 1996

Project management and technical support on large orders and non-standard equipment. Long term liaison with major customers - Shell, J.W.Kellogg, Kvaerner, John Brown, BOC, ICI, BNFL and water industries.- dealing with contractual matters, QA documentation and equipment specification.

Chemical Engineering Undergraduate

LeedsUniversity- Course incomplete

1992 - 1995

Apprentice Instrument Draughtsman / Undergraduate Engineer

Tioxide U.K. Ltd. - Pigment / Chemical Intermediates Producer

1986 - 1992

Worked as field engineer controlling routine maintenance and test procedures for several small process plants. Commissioning of Taylor MOD300 DCS system on rolling replacement of existing plant controls. Supervision of loop validation/handover to process operator.

Secondment to Honeywell contractors - instrument maintenance.

Secondment to Morgan Moore contractors - electrical and instrument installation.

Drawing office - design work covering all disciplines.

Artificer craft training - general engineering skills covering all disciplines.