Pippa Ford (nee Long)

Experience

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  IPOP

  Jan 2007 - May 2012

  Support Playworker

  Responsible for the support of children with disabilities between the ages of 4 and 18 years old. Being entrusted with their sole care taught me patience and the ability to understand and manage people’s needs and requirements in challenging situations. This work has taught me good transferable skills for an engineering workplace in respect to patience, forward planning and verbal and non-verbal communication.

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  Cardiff University

  Jan 2009 - Jun 2013

  MEng Architectural Engineering Student
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  Halstead's Assossiates

  Jun 2012 - Jan 2012

  Assistant to Structural Engineer
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  Balfour Beatty Workplace

  Jun 2012 - Sept 2012

  Experience gained at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham. Projects I was involved in included: Engineering Resilience Reviews; identifying and considering improvements of the maintenance systems of the hospital, and a Black Start test; testing the electrical systems to ensure the power would behave as stated if turned off, representing a failure at the generators. Venue Hosting at the Orbit tower in the Olympic park over the duration of the Olympics and Parolympics. My main duties were to enhance customer experience, assist in creating a clear, safe flow path of people around the stages of the structure and to communicate with customers. This job taught me great customer service skills as were coming face to face with over 5000 people a day.

  • Assistant to M&E Manager

    Jun 2012 - Sept 2012

  • Venue Host on Orbit Tower at Olympics/Parolympics

    Jun 2012 - Sept 2012
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  Arup

  Sept 2013 - now

  Package Manager of a large interdisciplinary design team on a rail mega-project under NEC I have attained a wealth of civil and structural engineering technical skills since starting at Arup in 2013 whilst working in buildings, rail and maritime sectors during both design and construction stages. Working on this range of projects has strengthened my problem solving and design co-ordination skills. Working withn GSA, CSC software and Revit and CAD.Held a Client’s Representative role on a maritime project during the construction phase under ICC.

  • Associate Design Manager

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Senior Design Manager

    Apr 2020 - Apr 2024

  • Building Design Manager

    Oct 2018 - Apr 2020

  • Structural Engineer

    Sept 2013 - Oct 2018
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  Institution of Structural Engineers - Tuesday Group

  Sept 2016 - Sept 2017

  Chair

  Chair for the IStructE young person's committee for the Western Counties. I joined the committee in 2014 as an events co-ordinator and secretary, this led onto the deputy chair role 2015/16 and now chair. We organise monthly presentations in both Bristol and Bath, networking events such as grab-a-grad and I lead monthly meetings for the committee. I also attend the Western Counties Main Committee monthly meetings.