Managing Ageing Assets

Nick Deavin: Senior Maintenance Authority, AWE

Nick is the Senior Maintenance Authority appointed by the Chief Engineer (Site & Assets) to set the standard and support operations in maintenance delivery across AWE sites. Nick started his engineering career in the Royal Air Force as an aircraft technician (mechanical), travelling the world and serving in several conflicts before a final tour as the MOD composite materials subject matter expert and aircraft structural integrity advisor. On retiring from the RAF after 24 years, he was honoured to be awarded an MBE in the 2008 New Year Honours for services to the Crown. He subsequently joined AWE as a Project Engineering Manager, moved to a Lead Internal Regulator role and, after 4 years, left to run the Berkshire Nuclear Engineering Consultancy Business Unit for AMEC. After several business changes through to AMECFW Nuclear becoming part of the Oil & Gas corporation Wood, he successfully transitioned the business unit from reliance on a single large project to a diverse portfolio of services. In Oct 2018, Nick was delighted to return to AWE to take up the role of Senior Maintenance Authority and strengthen the Engineering Safety Organisation. Nick gained a BSc in Engineering Design with the Open University, is a Chartered Engineer with the IET and a Chartered Manager. He lives in Newbury and has I child in University and 2 at school locally. He enjoys walking, cycling and time on the water.

Bruce Cletheroe: Head of Project Engineering, AWE

Bruce’s early career started in the mid 80s at BNFL Sellafield engineering small projects, running shutdowns and undertaking routine maintenance and breakdown repairs. Moving to BNFL’s head office, Bruce led a front end design team, then implemented deterministic safety cases and finally lead a waste project. In 2007, Bruce moved to AWE, leading the teams designing facility capability sustainment. For the last 5 years, he has been AWE’s third line of defence, assuring that Facilities will deliver their future mission.

Neil Arthur: Maintenance Strategy Lead, Harbour Energy

Neil Arthur is Maintenance Strategy Lead at Harbour Energy with over 30 years’ experience in Asset Management, Maintenance and Integrity in the Energy and Maritime industries.

Robert Pattison: Vanguard & Astute Class Availability and Sustainment Engineering Manager, Submarine Deliver Agency

After gaining a Bachelors of Science in Engineering at the University of West of England, I started my engineering career as a draughtsmen for GKN aerospace almost 23 years ago. I spent a few years there before moving to the Ministry of Defence in 2004 and starting my career in submarines. I worked as a technical desk officer looking after submarines and surface ship valves. This was a considerable change from light aircraft designs in CAD and FEA to submarines designed in the late 70s. This started my career working with the Royal Navy and supporting submarines, I then moved on to looking at new technologies for future submarines, trying to overcome the technology valley of death. During this time, I completed a part time Masters of Science in Engineering Technology Management. I then took a side step into working with engineering skills, training, graduates, apprentices and spent time looking at how Defence Equipment and Support, understood what engineers worked in the organisation and what skills they had. This is when I started my involvement with the IMechE taking over as the Industrial Liaison Officer. I then spent some time working on vulnerability reduction e.g., testing equipment and systems against weapon attacks, planning how to blow stuff up which was the best job. I then moved to the Dreadnought submarine programme again working on new technologies. This led me to being the leader of a submarine framework agreement which supported concept submarine designs and investigated how new technologies could be incorporated into new submarines. As part of this I completed the Submarine Design Course taught at University College London with students from many Navies across the world. From here I moved into my current role where I am the engineering lead understanding the required justifications to continue operating submarines beyond their intended design lives. Outside of work my time is spent with my wife Hazel and two children Mackenzie and Archie mostly as a taxi for football or their other activities. I have been climbing and mountaineering for the past 25 years and continue to do so with a week ice climbing in Norway planned for next year.

Sakshi Sircar: RAS Project Engineer + Sustainability Team Lead, Net Zero Technology Centre

Tim Ingram: Technical Director Strategic Asset Management, Atkins

Philip Wardle: Director IIOM UK Chapter, Advisor IIOM, International Institute of Obsolescence Management

Paul Grady: HM Principal Specialist Inspector (Mechanical Engineering), Health and Safety Executive

Sakshi Sircar: Project Engineer, Net Zero Technology Centre

Simon Watson: Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester

Ian Chapman: HM Specialist Inspector – Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Explosives Microbiological Hazards Division, Health and Safety Executive

Ian has worked within the Chemical Explosives Microbiological Hazards Division of the Health and Safety Executive as a Specialist Mechanical Inspector since August 2009 undertaking both interventions and investigations of incidents mainly at sites within scope of the Control Of Major Accident Hazards regulations. He also works within HSE on policy topics related to mechanical integrity of critical plant. Ian has worked in the process industry since 1988 within the industrial gases sector within the UK and abroad having previously worked in a variety of fields, including oceanographic research. He began his career as a mechanical engineering apprentice with the MOD at the National Gas Turbine Establishment, where development and testing of marine and aviation gas turbines was undertaken.

Sharon Callanan: Head of Asset Management, Waterways Ireland

Sharon Callanan is a Chartered Civil/Structural engineer with over 17 years’ experience encompassing asset management, project management, bridge design and construction supervision across a range of infrastructure assets in both private and public organisations.

She is currently the Head of Asset Management for Waterways Ireland, where she is responsible for developing Waterways Ireland Asset Management Strategy, leading the Asset Management Team and building Waterways Ireland Asset Management capabilities.

Sharon holds a BA/BAI in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering from Trinity College Dublin, Post Graduate diplomas in both Project Management and Bridge Engineering and a Diploma in Asset Management from the Institute of Asset Management.

She is a Chartered Member of Engineers Ireland, a member of the Institute of Asset Management, co-chair of the newly launched IAM Ireland Chapter Leinster Branch, an active member of the Engineers Ireland Project Management Society and the NSAI TC 048 SC 09 Asset Management committee.

Ashley Barratt: Co-Chair, IAM Climate Emergency Group

John Pearce: Reliability and Availability Discipline Lead, Atkins

Nicola Fairburn: Technical Authority – Human Factors, Atkins

Lindsey Mortimer: _, Rolls-Royce