Morag Macleod

Experience

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  The Ellon Advertiser

  Jun 2003 - Aug 2006

  Reporter

  Sole responsibility for the accurate gathering and reporting of news for the Ellon Advertiser. Liaising with various bodies including police, community councils, councillors and members of the public. Attending press conferences and other local events. Meeting three deadlines a week. Writing various types of articles from local club reports to sports and front page news, paying close attention to detail. Taking photographs and organising own files and records.

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  Morvern Community Development Company

  Aug 2006 - Feb 2007

  Project Officer

  Directly answerable to the board of directors responsibilities include preparing and submitting funding applications, land purchase documents, planning applications for the company and other community groups. Arranging for quotes and tenders for the various projects, and organising monthly meetings with directors and the public. Ensuring the day-to-day running of the company including all administration, reception and PR duties. Ensuring Month end accounts and payroll are completed Minute taking and distribution for both company meetings and community meetings and preparation of monthly reports for directors and funders. Preparing and updating project timescales and costs, identifying potential problems and solutions. Updating the community on the various projects at monthly community council meeting and at quarterly company public meeting. Show less

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  Wood Group Engineering (North Sea)

  Feb 2007 - Apr 2010

  Technical Author

  Initially employed as Bids Administrator before being promoted to Technical Author in July 2007Directly responsible to the Project Manager. Duties include:-Reviewing and checking technical documents produced by team members as required.Producing new documents such as study reports, quality plans and bid documents. Copy-editing, updating or rewriting existing documents to fit the standards, style and format agreed.Collecting relevant, often very complex, information and presenting the information in the simplest and most appropriate way. Providing formatting support to team members. Liaising with team members to ensure information contained within technical documents is timely, accurate and up-to-date. Liaising with clients to ensure documents contain the required information.Planning and managing the technical documents. Understanding the projects for which documentation is to be prepared. Gathering and analysing the information needs of the users. Planning the order of the information, organising and designing the information effectively. Setting up document standards, styles and formats. Writing and presenting the information in clear and simple English. Commissioning, co-ordinating or preparing illustrations. Indexing and cataloguing material. Attending planning/briefing/kick-off meetings. Show less

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  PSN

  Apr 2010 - Sept 2014

  Business Acquisition Library Manager / Technical Writer

  Developing the technical input to tender submissions and generating high quality material across the full range of our engineering and O&M services and tools. Interfacing with our Communications team to prepare case studies highlighting the benefits of The Company's successful delivery to customers. Providing support to proposals for writing tender answers on topics like; Engineering, Construction, Hook-up, Commissioning, Operations and Maintenance, and a range of other corporate functions including HSE, Quality, HR, Training, Project Control and Project Management. Providing input to assist Proposal Leader(s) to ensure that a winning strategy is developed for each opportunity. Peer Review responsibility to ensure compliance with customer requests for all technical disciplines and corporate functions, including assisting with the design of associated graphics material. Creating plain English texts that highlight the benefits and value for complex topics that are targeted equally at a broad spectrum from technically literate experts to non-technical Executive management. Creating plain English texts that are suitable to be read by those who do not have English as their first language. Prioritisation of multiple, often conflicting tasks, against fixed deadlines within tight budgets. Show less

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  Wood

  Jan 2020 - now

  Most recently upskilling to create Help User Guide for a web-based integrity monitoring system using single source content. Other experience included various Technical Authoring and documentation projects, including:• BioLab Arabia – Creating HSE and Management System documents for Chemical Facility in UAE. • Chrysaour – Updating HSE and emergency response documents in readiness for Day 1 operations• BP Global Offshore Operations – Reviewing, updating and rewriting BP Global Control of Work document• BP North Sea (based in BP offices) – Creating new and updating existing Oil Pollution Emergency Plans (OPEP) and other security and incident management documents. • Conoco Philips (Britannia)– Authoring and updating material supplied by Conoco Philips to produce up-to-date Safety Cases• Bumi Amada – Creating various procedures, including Emergency Response Plan and Business Continuity Plan, for new FPSO• BP Angola – Updating and rewriting documents and procedures into Plain English• Taqa (Harding and North Cormorant) – Authoring and updating material supplied by Taqa and the relevant subject matter experts to produce up-to-date Safety Cases • GDF Suez – Creating various information management procedures based on specific management systems Show less Coordinate between the process owners and discipline leads to maintain alignment between content, purpose and users. Offer/continuously improve a vision on the structure to make content accessible, findable and retrievable. Support BCD custodians with updating the documents and manage them in the BMS-tool Update the authority lists in BMS-tool with changes in the organization/position. Regularly update Process Owners and Discipline Leads on the status of Business Control Documents, under their responsibility (not overdue, overdue within x months, overdue) Update SUKEP management on the general status of the BMS-content on a monthly basis. Inform the user community on: outages, changes of the BMS-tool, etc. Organize information to assure that the user community is informed about changes in content of BCD's in BMS. Clean-up metadata to ensure functionality of the BMS is improvedInvestigate and coordinate improvements to be made to the BMS Show less

  • Technical Author

    Oct 2014 - now

  • BMS Coordinator

    Jan 2020 - Oct 2020