Nuclear Lifting 2016

Dai Davies: Inspector for Nuclear Safety– Operating Facilities Programme, Office for Nuclear Regulation

Dai Davies has over 35 years’ experience in the UK nuclear industry. He joined ONR (formerly Nuclear Installations Inspectorate) in 2009 and is the Mechanical Engineering Topic Lead for nuclear lifting equipment. Dai has extensive experience of nuclear lifting equipment design and its uses, and was previously the Centre of Expertise Lead within a UK licensee organisation. He led the formulation of the UK Nuclear Lifting Forum in 2007.

Steven Ayre: Assistant Head Technical Authority, Clyde Naval Base

Steven Ayre is the Assistant Head Technical Authority for the Clyde Naval Base, and responsible for ensuring the design intent of the nuclear infrastructure which is used to support nuclear submarines. This is a particularly challenging responsibility as standards and naval base requirements evolve. 

Neil Carr: Acting Head of Engineering, Radioactive Waste Management Ltd

Neil Carr is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Fellow of the IMechE with over 35 years’ experience, working in the private and public sector of the Nuclear Industry. From 1994 to date he has worked in the field of Radioactive Waste Management, holding several principle roles with responsibility for the development of Waste Package Specifications, waste container design development and waste package performance.  Currently, Neil is the Acting Head of Engineering with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) working in Radioactive Waste Management Limited (RWM) where he is responsible for the design development of a Geological Disposal Facility for safe handling and disposal of high activity wastes in the UK.   

Roger Best: Mechanical Handling Technical Authority, AWE

Roger Best has been the Technical Authority for lifting operations and equipment at AWE since 2004. During that time he has guided and approved a host of hazardous lifting and other moving systems tailored to the safety requirements of the respective application. He is familiar with the entire modern assurance process, but especially of compliant engineering solutions, and is the author of AWE’s site standard on mechanical handling design and engineering.

John Hanlon: Deputy Head Design Authority, Clyde Naval Base

John Hanlon is the Deputy Head Design Authority for the Clyde Naval Base, and as such is responsible for managing the delivery of a large complex nuclear infrastructure portfolio. He is responsible for ensuring the design intent and safety case of the Clyde nuclear infrastructure. John has over 100 Engineers and Project Managers working in my team and have responsibility for an Infrastructure maintenance budget in excess of £60M which is delivered through their industry partner Babcock.

Andrew Sivill: Crane Capability, Sellafield Ltd

Andrew Sivill has worked for Sellafield Ltd for 15 years. Andrew started his career as an apprentice toolmaker with British Aerospace and spent 5 years working as a toolmaker before joining Voith Sulzer Finishing Ltd. At Voith Sulzer he held various roles from production engineer to lead design engineer. Andrew joined Sellafield Ltd, as a designer but has spent the last 10 years working as a Mechanical Handling Engineer in the companies Capability Department. He designs, specifies and substantiates bespoke lifting equipment for the Sellafield site and oversees / provides guidance to internal and external engineers performing similar such tasks.

Shaun Kelso: Senior Policy Adviser, Sellafield Ltd

Shaun Kelso joined British Nuclear Fuels Ltd at their Sellafield site in August 1989 as a physics graduate from the Imperial College of Science and Technology and spent his first ten years in diverse safety roles before becoming an operations shift manager in the Magnox Fuel Handling Plant and later actively commissioning the first phase of the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Central Laboratory complex. This was followed by roles as Head of Technical and then Head of EHS&Q for the Sellafield MOx Plant, Head of Operations for Analytical Services (whilst simultaneously attaining a Masters’ degree (distinction) in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the Warwick Manufacturing Group), Head of Technical for External Affairs and Head of Operations Strategy.  Shaun is now a Senior Policy Adviser for Sellafield Ltd and also a doctoral researcher into Strategy-as-Practice with the Warwick Business School.

Eric Kroes: Operations Manager Special Devices, Mammoet Europe

Erik Kroes started his career with Mammoet in 2008 after obtaining his Master’s degree in Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics at the Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands. Developing from a Project Manager to Project Sponsor of Mammoet’s Special Devices division. During this period he has obtained vast knowledge of multi-disciplinary projects in amongst others the Civil, Nuclear and the offshore sector. The Special Devices division focuses on projects with Strandjacks, large skidding systems, Jack-up systems and a significant portion of customized projects focusing on client demands. Since September 2013 Erik holds the position of Operations Manager Special Devices in which he is responsible within Mammoet Europe B.V. for all operations concerning Special Devices projects, personnel and equipment. Examples of projects that Erik has been responsible for include the construction of Evaporator D and the Chernobyl Arch installation.

Alex Scott: Commercial Manager, Mammoet Europe

Alex Scott started his career with Mammoet in 2010 working in the engineering department after obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northumbria University, Newcastle. During this period Alex worked planning lifting operations on the Sellafield Site on both the Evaporator-D project and the dismantling of the world’s first commercial nuclear power station – Calder Hall. Alex developed into Project Engineering running Mammoet operations on the Sellafield Site including several high radiological risk lifts including the FGMSP-SPP1 Pipebridge installation and SDP Stack removal. Since October 2015 Alex has held the position of Commercial Manager at Mammoet UK where he is responsible for looking after Sales for the Nuclear Sector in the UK and continuing to assist Mammoet in safely and efficiently completing operations within nuclear sites.

Alex Johnstone: Principle Lifting Engineer, Sellafield Ltd

Alex Johnstone has worked in the Nuclear industry for most of his career, with the past 29 years at Sellafield. Alex started his career with Babcock Power at Heysham 1 NPS and moved on to Heysham 2 with NNC.  Since starting at Sellafield he has worked in a range of plants across the site mainly as a maintenance engineer and manager.  He is currently the Sellafield Site Principle Lifting Engineer and Lifting Appliance Engineering Authority, with responsibility for the management of lifting operations and equipment across the site.

John Sidney: Head of Category Management, Sellafield Ltd

Gordon Tait: Senior Project Manager , Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd

Gordon Tait started his engineering career at the Prototype Fast Reactor at Dounreay following his graduation. He moved quickly up the operations chain to become a shift manager, holding the post for six years until the final reactor shutdown and de-fuelling was complete in 1996. With the Dounreay site research work finished, he transferred to nuclear decommissioning, preparing and then implementing decommissioning plans and programmes for chemical process plant, shielded examination cells, criticality test facilities, sodium research laboratories and a materials test reactor.

Roger Haworth: EDF Energy Generation Ltd, Company Safety Advisor

Roger Haworth started work as a CEGB North Western Region Electrical Apprentice at a Carrington Power Station then moved to Heysham 1 Nuclear Power Station, which was still under constructions. He then moved to Agecroft Training Centre as a Skills Tutor, working on the Nuclear Electric Modern Apprenticeship Scheme, Multi Skill adult training and was the Centre Co-ordinator for the ETA NVQs. Roger then left Agecroft to join the British Energy Technical Training working on Systems/Operations training. Roger completed his NEBOSH Diploma and moved to the Industrial Safety Branch where he became responsible for the Company Code of Practice on Lifting Operation, and supporting EDF Nuclear Generation Eight sites in this area. He also provides general industrial safety support to Sizewell B and Hinkley Point B Power Station. Roger has participated in three World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) Technical Support Missions on Lifting and Material Handling at Nuclear Power Plants in France, Belgium and Brazil and presented at a WANO lifting and material handling workshop at a Germany NPP.