Ian Ross

Experience

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  Royal Air Force

  Sept 1989 - Feb 2012

  Operations & Maintenance Manager

  Over a 22-year career in the Royal Air Force, delivered successful results in a variety of challenging operational and engineering support roles, the majority of which included senior management responsibility in the rank of Squadron Leader. These spanned a broad spectrum of business activities including, but not limited to: active operation and maintenance of fast jet and rotary aircraft; dedicated Technical Authority roles; fleet and programme management; modification management; contract management; safety and airworthiness management. Career highlights included delivering results on numerous operational tours in demanding environments, working with large teams of talented and dedicated technical staff, and leadership of aircraft and personnel deployments in a variety of challenging conditions. Show less

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  Wood

  Mar 2012 - Sept 2017

  Senior Maintenance Engineer

  An experienced Maintenance Delivery Engineer/Onshore Team Lead, predominantly focused on dedicated Operations & Maintenance support of a variety of UK Oil & Gas Industry offshore assets including Harding, Nelson, Brent Alpha, Brent Bravo and Brent Delta. General responsibilities included: maintenance delivery; maintenance optimisation and improvement plans; project management of critical maintenance scopes; contract management; budget management including maintenance OPEX controls/reporting and CAPEX bid submissions; management, prioritisation, mentoring and recruitment of onshore discipline engineer teams; maintenance reporting; management of change and resourcing. Specific projects of note included capability improvement introduction; maintenance & reliability improvement programmes; plant decommissioning programme support; technical investigation and staffing. Show less

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  Lloyd's Register

  Oct 2017 - May 2019

  Maintenance & Reliability Team Lead

  Maintenance & Reliability Team Lead for Lloyd's Register; Project Manager for an extensive portfolio of maintenance and reliability optimisation programmes conducted in the International Energy and Marine markets. Using Lloyd's Register's Real Time Adaptive Maintenance Optimisation (RTAMO) software to deliver responsive maintenance optimisation solutions, these projects were tailored to the needs of the operator and asset. Whilst predominantly focused on UK and International Oil & Gas Majors and Independent operators, clients also included downstream and marine operators seeking to make maintenance strategy improvements based on actual equipment performance, Show less

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  Oceaneering Asset Integrity

  Oct 2019 - Nov 2020

  Principal Risk & Reliability Engineer

  Principal Risk & Reliability Engineer for Oceaneering's Risk Reliability Maintenance (RRM) group. This team provides specialist integrity management and reliability services for a range of clients across the International Energy sector. With staff based in the UK, Norway, India, USA, Malaysia and Brasil, Oceaneering RRM supports clients in managing asset integrity effectively, and driving operating and maintenance program improvements based on equipment reliability and performance.

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  PBS by Ponticelli

  Nov 2020 - Mar 2023

  Maintenance & Reliability Team Lead

  Lead for PBS' Maintenance Methods & Reliability Team, supporting all TotalEnergies UK offshore and onshore production sites

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  Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S)

  Mar 2023 - now

  Poseidon P-8A Weapon Systems Lead

  Poseidon P-8A Air Engineering Manager, with specific responsibility for aircraft weapons systems