David Northall

From lab scale to building the first commercial Iron Nitride magnet facility in the world has been a journey. Niron’s 2027 startup will be a massive milestone and I’m proud to be a key part of it. Go Niron!

United States

About

An international executive manager with excellent credentials in Operations, Project and Engineering Management.

Experience

  • Vice President of Global Plant Development at Niron Magnetics, Inc.
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Responsible for plant design and build scale up to commercial capacity.

  • General Manager - Project Engineering and Services at SABIC
    Oct 2018 - Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Responsible for creating a global PreFEED/FEED Engineering unit to deliver the baseline of SABIC's global projects, based from Jubail, KSA. Growing a fledgling engineering group into an international unit to service SABIC's very extensive global project portfolio. This involves setting up new execution centers and designing an organisation to service, support manage engineering on projects as diverse as petrochemicals, agrinutrients and mining, protecting IP and providing a central engineering resource to the wider organisation.

  • Director of Engineering at Jacobs
    Jan 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Departing from Jacobs soon for new horizons, I have been responsible for a great team of managers, and a team of over 800 engineers and designers executing FEED and detailed design engineering works for major clients in the region including Aramco, Sabic, BP etc

  • Executive Project Management / Operations Consultant at Owner - International O&G PM/Operations Consulting
    Aug 2015 - Jan 2016 · 6 mos

    Available for short or long term (contract or permanent) consultancy works managing, advising, developing or supporting major projects or operations groups internationally.

  • Chief Operating Officer, SVP & Executive General Manager at Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company, Inc.
    Mar 2014 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Management of all aspects of the business associated with design, procurement, fabrication and assembly of modules such as E-Houses, pipe racks & process modules, with over 7000 employees within my remit, two fabrication yards for international blue chip clients, over $600m of module projects for some of the largest projects in the world.