Employment History

2003 - PresentAvecia Ltd

Control and Electrical Engineer

Leading the professional engineering function for control and electrical in Avecia UK with particular responsibilities for Grangemouth sites. Principal Accountabilities:

To lead the Control & Electrical function in Avecia, to ensure that legal compliance is appropriately interpreted, requirements are set, implementation carried through and achievement monitored in a cost effective manner. To establish and manage arrangements for the delegation of Responsible C/E Licence to operate matters across the UK sites and within the Grangemouth site to ensure local areas have the proper engineering appointees to deliver SHE compliance. To ensure the appropriate C/E skill resource is identified for the ongoing business needs, to support the line management in the associated

training/development in delivering that resource and underwriting the competence. To establish effective C/E networking between sites and within Grangemouth to promote effective and value adding design, construction and maintenance activities. To lead the commercial and technical management of the main C/E contractor for Grangemouth Site to deliver the required performance on service to meet the project and plant needs. I am accountable for ensuring the company complies with the legal and company obligations in the control and electrical area. This covers a wide diversity of technical expertise e.g. high voltage supply, plant protective safety instrumented systems and process control automation systems. I am required to take decisions on the appropriate interpretation of some very complex legislation and HSE expected standards e.g. EU ATEX Directive, IEC Standard on Safety Instrumented Systems, this required working with organisations outside of the company. As I do not hold line management responsibilities over many of the people in the company who need to work in this area considerable influencing and networking skills are required. Avecia wishes to reposition itself in the application of technical standards and move more towards industry norms and wider use of professional judgement in place of prescriptive standards. I am leading this culture change in the C/E community. This is a significant challenge given the history of the company and requires great determination and leadership qualities to succeed.

2001 - 2002Avecia Ltd

Engineering Manager

Supplying support functions to a variety of chemical manufacturing plant areas. Business sectors included: fine chemical, agrochemical intermediate and pharmaceutical intermediate manufacture. Accountabilities:

To act as duty holder for Pressure Systems, Electricity at Work Regulations, Machinery, COSHH, Plant Modifications etc in order to demonstrate legislative compliance. To develop and implement procedures, systems and audit to ensure that engineering is compliant with current Good manufacturing practice for pharmaceutical intermediate products. To act as plant control/electrical engineer, in addition to role as engineering manager/duty holder, managing all aspects of control/electrical engineering especially SHE and safety instrumented systems. To manage and lead the development of the combined engineering tea, within the plant towards a proactive support role rather than reactive repair role. To act as project engineer for a WISHE portfolio of investments within manufacturing plants, ensuring that good project management disciplines are adhered to. To develop appropriate maintenance strategies for the total asset and implement them utilising best practice. To lead plant engineering and condition audits to ensure plant condition is consistent with the maintenance strategy, and company/site policy. To support the development of appropriate engineering skills within the work station teams and coach work station managers to manage their engineering responsibilities. To be accountable for the overall engineering and maintenance within the plant and also the overall engineering budget @ > £1.0 million.

1998 - 2001Avecia Ltd

Control and Electrical Engineer

Control and electrical engineer supplying support functions to a variety of chemical manufacturing plant areas. The scope of this position includes, ensuring that the plant maintain their safe operation and conform to legislative and company standards. Auditing as required to ensure that these standards are maintained and developing the appropriate documentation systems for this purpose. Providing essential C/E maintenance service by assisting in fault diagnosis to return plant to service in line with business needs. Improving plant effectiveness / productivity by application of C/E technology. Working to minimise production outage by use of a full mix of maintenance techniques. Overseeing the installation of minor projects and assist in commissioning these to meet project targets. Acting as a member of major standards and maintenance practices to optimise the cycle cost and plant availability. Leading the technical development of the C/E process service technician role.

Education

5/1997GlasgowCaledonian University

Bachelor's Degree

BEng Honours Electrical Power Engineering

Classification 2:2

Modules:

High voltage engineering, power plant engineering, condition monitoring, drives and power conversion, signals and systems, control engineering, industrial management, computer systems, casework studies, mathematics, quality assurance.

Affiliations

Institute of Electrical Engineers CEng MIEE

Skills

AutoCAD - Expert

MS office suite products - Expert