United Kingdom
I currently hold the role of System Engineer within the Remediation EC&I Engineering Team. Remediation is one of the four ‘value streams’ of Sellafield Ltd. The role of the System Engineer is to develop and maintain expertise on assigned plant system(s) and/or area(s) and use this knowledge to advance the facility mission and safety by ensuring the overall performance, safety, condition and associated documentation of these assigned systems are maintained at a high standard. The System Engineer is a multi-disciplinary role and serves as the technical “owner” of their assigned system/area(s). I am currently based at the Calder Hall facility on the Sellafield Site. Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station comprises in excess of 60 buildings of which I have systems in 30. My assigned systems include the; Reactor Monitoring, Control & Protections Systems, Reactor Dry Air System, Reactor Primary Circuits, Dry Air Plants, Electrical Distribution Systems, Radiological Protection Systems, Fire Systems, Environmental Systems, Security Systems and Plant Support Systems. In total, I am responsible and accountable for 25 ‘Plant Based Systems’ spread across 30 buildings within the Calder Hall facility. As a System Engineer, I am responsible for: - Establishing and maintaining System Files for each of my systems - Evaluating System Health and performance - Developing and reviewing maintenance strategies - Monitoring activities on system components to identify those that contribute to system unavailability and make recommendations for improvements. (e.g. availability of critical spare parts)
I held the role of Project Leader at the Sellafield Ltd. Innovation Centre for a project. The ‘Innovation Centre’ was set up within the last few years in order to meet a growing business need to solve complex problems effectively in a very short time frame with a very low budget. Projects are submitted to the Innovation Centre from across the business, they are then screened and scored to ensure the highest priority and impact projects are addressed first. A Project Team is then formed from individuals across the business who applied for a secondment at the centre and a Project Leader chosen. I was chosen as Project Leader for the project the team was given. My project team was formed of 8 people (including myself) from a range of backgrounds, experience levels and disciplines. We were given 6 weeks and £15,000 to develop a working solution to the problem posed to us. As Project Leader I was responsible for planning, budgeting, organisation and direction of people and resources and control of tasks. I was also responsible for leading the team and developing the individuals within it.
I held the role of Lead EC&I Design Engineer within the EC&I Design Team at Nuvia Limited. The EC&I Design Team were responsible for providing design capability to the business in order to meet their strategic objectives. This included: • Delivering fully developed, verified and validated design packages for single discipline and multi discipline projects • Leading, co-ordinating and delivering tender response packages for tenders posed by potential clients • Functional Safety Assessments and Site Safety Assessments As a Design Engineer, I was responsible for: - Developing and producing designs for single discipline and multi discipline design projects in line with legal regulations and standards, best practice standards and the client’s standards and specifications. This included producing design drawings; Single Line Diagrams, Schematic Diagrams, Termination Diagrams, Ventilation Flow Diagrams, Cable Routing Diagrams, Earthing Diagrams, Hook-up Diagrams and General Arrangement Diagrams. And also included the production of various schedules; Cable, Load, I/O and Label, and equipment lists - Leading, co-ordinating and delivering tender response packages for tenders. This included producing strategy documents, deliverables schedules that illustrated quantity and time estimates for the project, Load Schedules, I/O schedules, Equipment Lists and Schedules and outline diagrams such as SLDs - Carrying out Functional Safety Assessments for new and existing systems in line with the relevant standards - Carrying out Site Safety Assessments for new and existing systems in line with the relevant standards
I held the role of Business Analyst within the NDA’s Financial Planning Team. The Financial Planning Team was responsible for developing, maintaining and providing assurance capability on critical financial spreadsheets and models prepared by or for the NDA or its estate. This included: • Maintaining the Critical Models and Spreadsheets Tracker for the whole of the NDA estate • Ensuring that the modelling and analysis NDA carried out was sufficiently robust in order to meet standards set out by Treasury for spreadsheets that are influential in deciding how the NDA spends public money. The CEO signed a declaration each year, which is included in the Annual Report and Accounts (ARAC), stating that all “critical spreadsheets” meet these standards. • Undertaking formal peer reviews of Critical Models & Spreadsheets to provide CEO assurance that they can sign the declaration in the ARAC. • Running training sessions and providing day-to-day support on various aspects of Critical Models & Spreadsheets to colleagues across the NDA estate. • Working with various directorates and teams within the NDA, Subsidiaries and Site License Companies to develop models and spreadsheets for a variety of purposes. As a Business Analyst, I was responsible for: - Providing modelling & analysis expertise and deliverables for internal and external clients - Undertaking formal peer reviews of ‘Critical’ models and spreadsheets - Manage Quality Assurance processes and Communications for Critical Models & Spreadsheets Improvement within the Financial Planning Team, the Finance Department, the NDA and the wider estate - Continuous Improvement within the Financial Planning Team, the Finance Department, the NDA and the wider estate