Experience

Lianhetech Europe Limited

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Process Engineering

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Main duties and achievements include: • Primary responsibility to lead & coordinate team providing process and project engineering services to the manufacturing site; assigning appropriate resources to ensure delivery of product changeovers, new product introductions and CAPEX projects. • Acted as Lead Engineer on multiple projects; from plant design phase to leading cross functional implementation teams, including engineering disciplines, maintenance staff, contractors, manufacturing representatives and development chemists, to ensure successful start-ups that meet requirements of production plans, cost estimates and customers. • Oversee budget responsibilities for changeovers and projects, prepare departmental budgets for site financial planning. Prepare capital estimates for potential future processes, based on technical feasibility assessment of enquiries versus equipment capacity & capability. • Extensive experience of industry recognised standards & good practice, COMAH regulations, process hazard analysis (including HAZOP & LOPA studies) chemical reaction hazard assessment and environmental regulatory requirements; consistently apply the implications of these in process design and equipment selection. • Responsible for developing and implementing improvement strategies to processes & procedures and upskilling of process team through mentoring, on-the-job coaching, objective setting and performance review, plus identification and coordination of training & development opportunities. • Strong commitment to continuous improvement; re-engaged team with both post-campaign reviews and root cause analysis (for any safety, quality, or equipment failures) to ensure learning is captured, actions are implemented and re-occurrence is prevented. • Utilise broad cross-industry expertise to liaise with external technical specialists to conduct process modelling & optimisation activities, identifying work streams to deliver improvement opportunities.



VERTELLUS SPECIALTIES UK LIMITED

• Seal Sands, UK

• Senior Process Engineer

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2021

  Main duties and achievements include: • Provide process engineering support for multiple manufacturing plants, troubleshooting operations, analysing plant performance using OEE metric to identify improvements and assessing new product opportunities • Project manager for majority of plant improvements totalling $500k over 2 years. Delivered a variety of projects on time and in budget including safety critical pipework replacement, bund integrity upgrade, process automation, EHS projects and civil/structural works • Responsible for managing site capital programme including potential project assessment, scope development, cost estimation, cash flow tracking and close out • Provided process engineering input into update of COMAH report and prepare information required before, and in response to, HSE visits • Responsible for overseeing management of change system across the site; involving training new recruits and driving others to maintain compliance & address backlogs • Temporarily covered for multiple engineering & maintenance roles due to simultaneous open vacancies, including engineering manager, mechanical/reliability engineer and maintenance support; successfully able to maintain safe production and progress maintenance programmes until new appointments made



Johnson Matthey

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Support Engineer

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2017

  Main duties and achievements include: • Providing technical support for European Syngas and Refinery Hydrogen customers with focus on feed purification, steam reforming, water-gas shift and synthesis catalysts. • Evaluating plant data to analyse catalyst performance, generating optimisation advice and future performance projections to be incorporated into change-out planning. • Extensive foreign travel to lead a variety of site support work including catalyst loading, plant start-ups and catalyst reductions to ensure safe & successful product activation. • Significant experience in conducting reformer furnace surveys, utilising specialist thermal imaging equipment, developing the service offering by introducing new equipment. Global technical specialist for thermal imaging camera, developed user guides and involved in further development of the equipment with the manufacturer. • Able to provide remote and on-site troubleshooting of customer plants, requiring awareness of steam & water systems, syngas purification technology, combustion theory and metallurgy. • Line management of graduate engineer, responsible for their on-the-job training, professional development and performance review. • Responsibility for development and maintenance of technical relationships with customers, providing a key point of contact for technical queries, compiling technical proposals to meet customer needs and identifying new business opportunities. • Completed successful US secondment to provide extensive software training for regional technical team, developed best practice guides to improve technical standards globally.



AstraZenceca

• Macclesfield

• Senior Process Engineer

  • Sep 2008 - Jan 2013

  Main duties and achievements include: • Design, development and optimisation of drug substance manufacturing processes, with particular focus on unit operations with scale and equipment dependence, e.g. distillation, crystallisation, mixing, isolation & drying • Engineering support for drug substance manufacturing pilot plants, leading upgrade projects for sequence-based control & supervisory system to improve safety and flexibility Frequently required to investigate & resolve processing issues • Seconded to Capital Projects group to lead commissioning team for new effluent transfer storage system. Planned & safely executed commissioning activities to deadline • Conducted technology assessment exercise for new waste water treatment facility, evaluated options including capital and operating costs, then produced conceptual design and user requirement specification • Provided engineering input into HAZOP-based risk assessments. Required to evaluate SHE issues prior to manufacturing, including pressure relief, area classification, chemical hazard assessments, materials of construction checks, and calculating VoC emissions • Developed excellent communication skills working in multi-disciplinary teams across the pharmaceutical business from project managers to plant operators and technicians • Completed environmental assessments of processes, identifying solutions to reduce the environmental footprint and utilising relevant metrics to influence further development • Transferred internally-developed processes and understanding to European contract manufacturers, remotely supporting and troubleshooting operations • Perform detailed cost of goods and net present value calculations for projects from raw materials to finished product, influencing the future of projects in the R&D pipeline



Leeds Cooperative Society

• Customer Service Assistant

  • Feb 2003 - Aug 2008



AstraZeneca

• United Kingdom
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chemical Engineering Summer Placement

  • Jul 2007 - Aug 2007

  Individual project ‘Excipient stabilisation of the amorphous form' in Crystallisation Group Individual project ‘Excipient stabilisation of the amorphous form' in Crystallisation Group