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Chartered Engineer, Geologist, Wastes Manager, Water & Environmental Manager and Radioactive Waste Adviser with 27years’ wide-ranging consultancy experience
Specialist in radioactive and hazardous wastes management, with 10years’ experience supporting the development and delivery of decommissioning and waste management strategies for nuclear sites, including work on Dounreay Shaft and Windscale Pile1
Recent support to NDA for definition and prioritisation of opportunities for ILW processing and management, decommissioning and early closure of sites across the NDA estate
Extensive recent experience in the planning and authorisation of facilities for the treatment and disposal of Low and Very Low Level radioactive wastes
21years’ experience in the characterisation, assessment and management of contaminated land, including the provision of strategic advice on Land Quality Management to the owners, insurers, lenders, prospective purchasers and developers of some of the most highly contaminated sites in the world / Key Experience
  • Radioactive and non-radioactive wastes management
  • Environmental and radiological risk assessment
  • Environmental authorisation applications and regulatory compliance, including EPR10 and RSA93
  • Planning application support, including EIA, public and stakeholder engagement
  • Regulator liaison
  • BAT/BPEO/BPM studies
  • Environmental Safety Cases
  • Article37 submissions
  • Waste and decommissioning strategy development
  • Options assessments
  • Land Quality Assessment and management, including contaminated land and delicensing support
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Engineering geology, hydrogeology and ground engineering
  • Design, engineering and operational management of landfills and waste disposal facilities
  • Durability of geomaterials
  • Development and delivery of training courses in environmental regulations, site characterisation and risk assessment
/ Profession
  • Chartered Engineer, Geologist, Scientist, Wastes Manager and Water & Environmental Manager

Years of Prof. Experience
  • 27

Qualifications
  • BSc (Hons) Geology
  • MSc Engineering Geology
  • PhD geomaterials durability
  • CEng, CGeol, CSci, MCIWM, CWEM
  • Radioactive Waste Adviser
  • Radiation Protection Supervisor
  • Specialist in Land Condition (SiLC)
  • Final-year BSc/BEng courses in structural design and construction management

Nationality & Languages
  • British national
  • English; limited French

Security Clearance
  • BC (formerly held DV)

Availability
  • Immediate, subject to agreement

Location
  • Manchester, UK

Rate
  • Current: 60,000 GBP p.a.
  • Desired: 70,000 GBP p.a.

Current Position
XXXX, Managing Director (2011 – Present)
Provision of strategic and technical consultancy services in radioactive and hazardous wastes management, permitting and compliance of radioactive waste treatment and disposal facilities, nuclear decommissioning and assessment and management of radioactively and chemically contaminated land.
  • Support to NDA for definition and prioritisation of opportunities for decommissioning and early closure of sites, integrated waste processing, optimising lifecycle requirements for waste packaging, optimisation of waste disposal, and enabling projects
  • Review of alternative decommissioning strategies and waste management implications for major facilities at Dounreay: Prototype Fast Reactor; High Active Liquid Effluent Storage Plant; High Active Drain; Ventilation Duct; ILW Silos; ILW Shaft; LLW Pits; and Low Active Liquid Effluent Treatment Plant
  • Independent peer review of report on 3-year monitoring programme to provide reassurance that there is no potential leakage from Dounreay ILW Silo
  • Continued support for Low and Very Low Level radioactive waste disposal applications at 3 facilities

Experience
XXXX, Managing Consultant, Risley (2007 – 2010)
Strategic and technical role involving development and delivery of services in waste management, ground engineering, contaminated land, environment and deep geological disposal.
  • Business development and delivery of projects related to the planning and authorisation of facilities for the treatment and disposal of Low and Very Low Level radioactive wastes. Responsible for applications for 3 facilities, including commercial and contractual advice, inventory assessments, radiological risk and capacity assessments, Permit applications, Environmental Safety Cases, Article37 submissions and planning support
  • Established Joint Venture to build and operate a facility to descale NORM-contaminated operational equipment from the oil and gas industry. Responsible for Business Plan, Radioactive Substances Act authorisation application, Article 37 submission, technical input to planning application, and stakeholder engagement including two public exhibitions
  • Strategic advice to Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on management of contaminated land, including delicensing requirements
  • Technical input to nuclear decommissioning projects, including peer review of Final Decommissioning Safety Report for Rosyth naval dockyard

XXXXX, Managing Consultant, Sellafield (2005 – 2007)
Management of XXXXs consulting business in West Cumbria, plus radioactive waste and environmental team in Risley. Technical direction of projects in contaminated land, waste, environmental management and due diligence, including:
  • Pre-acquisition environmental liability assessment of Westinghouse facilities in USA, UK, continental Europe and Ukraine
  • Investigation and remedial options assessment of a major radium-contaminated site in Scotland
  • Various waste management projects including review of BPEO studies for management of waste oils and asbestos-contaminated HEPA filters from Windscale nuclear site

XXXXXX, Technical Director/Director of Nuclear Services, Manchester (2002 – 2005)
Responsible for maintaining and developing quality and consistency of technical standards and service in soil and groundwater engineering, and for technical direction of projects in contaminated land and environmental liability management, plus strategic responsibility for development of UK nuclear sector business. Technical director/ lead author for various projects including:
  • Several technical studies relating to the retrieval of ILW from a 65m deep unlined rock shaft at Dounreay, including comparative assessments of shaft and foundation stability, rock excavatability, structural design, infrastructure requirements, M&E and safety aspects for alternative waste retrieval methods; environmental impacts and benefits; and implications of surface contamination
  • Optioneering studies considering technologies for use in decommissioning the fire-damaged core of Windscale Pile 1 reactor

XXXXXXXX, Head of Environmental Management Services, Manchester (2000 – 2002)
Group management and business development in the fields of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)/ due diligence auditing, environmental compliance assessment, Environmental Management Systems, environmental permitting, Environmental Impact Assessment, waste minimisation, Health & Safety management systems, and corporate environmental strategy.
  • Technical director for numerous major national and multinational M&A projects and environmental liability assessments (£0.5 million - >£2 billion)
  • Assessment of liabilities associated with leased operational facilities at Windscale, including detailed asset inventory of post-irradiation fuel examination facilities; regulatory compliance assessment; building contamination assessments; structural condition surveys; and environmental, health & safety assessment
  • Detailed environmental liability assessments of four coal-fired power stations and one CCGT power station
  • Compilation of wastes inventory for decommissioning of a North Sea gas production platform, and Duty of Care auditing of onshore breaking yard and wastes chain
  • Management of EIA for the UK’s first (and only) underground hazardous waste disposal facility at Winsford, prior to Public Inquiry

Previous Experience
XXXXXX, Manager, Soil and Groundwater Assessment, Manchester (1998 – 2000)
  • Group management, business development and project director/technical specialist for contaminated land investigation, quantitative risk assessment, land remediation, hydrogeology and wastes management projects

XXXX, Regional Associate/ Head of Environment, Exeter (1994 – 1998)
  • Group management, business development and project manager/technical specialist for contaminated land investigation and assessment, wastes management and related projects

XXXX, Assistant Group Engineer, Wastes & Contaminated Land, Epsom (1992 – 1994)
  • Project engineer/manager for contaminated land investigation and assessment, landfill engineering and environmental liability assessment/auditing projects

XXXX, Engineer, Geotechnical & Foundation Engineering, Epsom (1989 – 1992)
  • Planning and supervision of ground investigations, preparation of specifications and contract documents, interpretive reporting

University of XXXX, Postdoctoral Fellow, Civil Engineering (1988 – 1989)
  • Research into micro-scale physico-chemical mechanisms of concrete deterioration

Geomaterials Research Services, Consultant, Essex (1986 – 1988)
  • Testing, petrography and analysis of deteriorated concrete and other geomaterials

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