Callum Evans

Experience

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  Diamond Event Services Ltd.

  Jul 2009 - Aug 2015

  Crew Chief

  • Managed teams and jobs across the Scottish events industry from concept through to completion.

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  Vocis Ltd

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Engineering Internship

  • Manufactured and analysed transmissions for a large German automotive OEM recovering a delayed project. • Calibrated a dual-clutch transmission for different driving styles by gear change profiling

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  Scottish Widows

  Jan 2015 - Aug 2015

  Client Consultant
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  Siemens

  Oct 2015 - Sept 2017

  Wind Power Graduate, Rotational

  • Undertook placements across Siemens Wind Power’s Service and Offshore Construction business units. Awarded final programme score of 93%.• Managed the development of a concept offshore HV cable exchange tool at Westermost Rough offshore windfarm.• Developed external blade ID signage for Race Bank offshore wind farm, which became a standard SGRE product offering. • Assistant Project Manager for a campaign repairing 96 high-risk DC cables.

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  Siemens Gamesa

  Oct 2017 - Aug 2024

  ● Lead project manager for wind turbine repair, retrofit and upgrade projects in a challenging projects department. Manage multiple large and complex projects across Europe on the world’s largest windfarms. Deploy service operations vessels, crew transfer vessels and up to 70 full time resource on each project to undertake innovative engineering solutions.● Deliver all projects safely by establishing and maintaining proactive safety at their core through robust planning, culture setting and safety leadership. Technician hours across all projects managed total more than 250,000 and have been undertaken without lost time incident or medical treatment case.● Deliver projects on multi-billion-pound wind farms with multi-million-pound budgets. Accountable for full profit and loss responsibility. Consistently deliver on or under budget through diligent budgeting, monitoring of spend and management of risks.● Lead multidisciplinary, international project teams with up to 10 direct reports. Manage project interfaces across the Europe. Establish collaborative relationships across all project teams and stakeholders.● Determine and implement project strategies and report progress and risks to Senior Management. Take decisive, timely action to ensure project success. Where necessary update strategy to overcome emergent issues.● Procure project services including the drafting of subcontractor contracts. Determine contracting methods, negotiate terms, and assess and offset risks. Manage contracts end to end and ensure obligations and terms are met by all parties.● Undertaken several departmental improvement projects such as establishing robust processes for the upskilling of Authorised Technicians for SGRE’s projects. Appointed the NE&ME representative for global standardisation of Major Projects’ operating procedures.● Volunteer SGRE Wind Turbine Safety Rules Panel Chair and Major Projects representative on the regional Safety Committee. Show less • Key support to the Senior Leadership Team managing the integration of Siemens Wind Power and Gamesa through a highly sensitive period of significant organisational restructuring.• Implemented and managed governance of the local merger through reviews of the business segments and structured integration programmes.• Achieved accelerated delivery of UK&IE integration. Success resulted in extension of scope to include the newly merged Northern Europe & Middle East region.• Delivered cost reduction synergy programme for Northern Europe & Middle East supporting overachievement of regional productivity targets. Show less

  • Project Manager, Offshore Major Projects NE&ME

    Jan 2021 - Aug 2024

  • Technical Project Manager, Major Projects UK&IE

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Junior Programme Manager, Business Transformation

    Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
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  SSE Renewables

  Sept 2024 - now

  Project Management Office - Manager (Offshore Asset Management)