Experience

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  National grid

  Jun 2013 - Sept 2013

  Electronic records management analyst

  Summer work at National Grid between my first and second years at university

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  National grid

  Jun 2014 - Sept 2014

  Electronic records management analyst

  After my first summer job at National Grid, because of high performance I got invited back to do the same role again between my Second and third years at University

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  Boc uk & ireland

  Sept 2016 - Aug 2019

  My third placement on the BOC graduate development program as a process engineer. This role threw me back in the deep end, with a lot of technical work and a steep learning curve. As a part of this role, I supported customer projects, both internal and external, with full process design right from the initial proposals stage right up to commissioning. Common tasks included support calculations, mark ups for P&ID drawings, process design review, and process support on HAZOP and LOPA. This role massively increased my technical competence and understanding of basic chemical engineering principles. Working with cryogenics, a big part of this roll was to gain a better understanding Thermodynamics and Fluid Dynamics. As well as overarching chemical engineering principals such as mass and energy balances.This also provided me with opportunities to better understand ASU sites, with several projects and support calculations for equipment on ASU plants. It also gave me an opportunity to better understand the cylinder filling processes in my past 2 placements from a process point of view, dealing with extremely high pressures and supercritical fluids, further improving my understanding of Thermodynamics.One thing that I really enjoyed about this role, was the ability to build a model of the system in excel, and visually see how variable A impacts B by playing around with the numbers. I also really enjoyed how a lot of the basic principles I was reinforcing with this placement can be used to understand how a massive range of things all around me work, from vacuum cleaners and fridges, to Airplanes. Show less Support, monitor and report SHEQ performance for the Bristol, Crawley, Thame and Siemens production operations within the southern region. SHEQ stands for, Safety, Health, Environment & Quality. As a SHEQ advisor, I got involved with all four of these aspects on a daily basis. For the safety part, common tasks included reviewing risk assessments, incident investigations and task observations. For health, this covered tasks such as noise surveys, evaluating hearing protection requirements at different points on site as well as hand-arm vibration assessments. Some environmental initiatives I was a part of include reducing both waste production, and energy consumption on site. This required monitoring current usage, and conducting cost benefit analysis to confirm if the improvement projects identified are economically viable or not. There were also a few interesting quality control projects spread out across the year. First, was to evaluate the sites requirements against the ISO 9001 standard. Part of what was interesting for this part, was seeing and understanding the differences in quality control required when dealing with medical products, compared to requirements for Sureserve. One other interesting project that was given to me as part of the ISO 9001 compliance, was to develop a process flow chart for the operation procedures of the four sites. This helped me to gain an understanding of the cylinder filling process at BOC, and gave me a lot of context for conducting other safety related tasks, such as risk assessments. What was especially interesting, was it gave me the chance to visit other sites in the southern region to produce process maps, giving me the opportunity to visit the customer site at Siemens and better understand how the Helium we sell is used in the production of magnets and MRI machines. Other notable achievements this year included obtaining my yellow belt in Six Sigma, and NEBOSH certificate. Show less Working as a a project engineer for Immingham special gases site, as my first role on the BOC engineering graduate scheme. The role covered a range of tasks supporting the site, as well as management of my own projects. The major project for the year being the installation of a new effluent tank onto the existing toxic gases scrubber. The main challenge with this project was time management. Because the removal of the old vessel and installation of the new one had to be in line with the operating schedule of the scrubber and when the effluent water used needs to be changed out. This gave a small window of 5 weeks from when the old tank was taken offline, to which the new tank had to be fully installed, operational, and safe.The key variables in successfully executing this project was first to understand the full scope of work that needed to be done, such as repairing the civil plinth, installing new pipework and crane lift of the new vessel into place. It was key to understand and manage unknowns. As the plinth was underneath the existing vessel, before the old vessel was lifted out of place, it was unknown what the condition of the plinth would be like. Therefore, I was unsure on exactly how long it will take to repair all of the damage. It was key to factor this into time estimates, coming up with a conservative estimate for the time taken to repair the plinth, adding a lot of contingency time should the plinth be in worse condition than expected, so I could ensure the project was completed to schedule. Show less

  • Process Engineer

    Sept 2018 - Aug 2019

  • SHEQ Advisor South region

    Sept 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Project Engineer

    Sept 2016 - Aug 2017
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  Boc uk & ireland

  Oct 2020 - now

  Fourth year in the graduate scheme at BOC working as operations engineer at BOC Middlesbrough. This placement has been a great learning experience for me, strengthening and working on a few weaknesses identified in the previous placements. Following the last placement in process, I started to gain a better technical understanding of how the equipment works, but in all of the calculations and models I looked at, it was always using very conservative models to maintain the system as safe as possible. Spending time in the operations department, it is great to see what actually happens day to day, look at the trends and historical data to see how equipment behaves, and helping work together with other BOC personnel to troubleshoot operation problems and continue to provide product safely to the customer. By spending time on shift and with the various maintenance departments, I have been involved in a range of activities at Middlesbrough site, especially around the raising of new EMOCs and closure out of old EMOC actions. This has helped me to gain a better understanding behind the history of the site, and given me plenty of opportunity to work with the maintenance foreman from the electrical, instruments and mechanical departments, helping improve my multi-disciplinary knowledge. Additionally, I have been in charge of managing my own projects, building on the skills from my first placement in projects, while also incorporating technical knowledge from my process placement being involved as a part of the initial concept design process. Show less

  • Remote Operation Shift Manager

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Process Engineer

    Sept 2021 - Jun 2022

  • Operations Engineer

    Oct 2020 - Sept 2021