Project Manager / Study Manager - 2014 - 2015
Johnson Matthey Plc, Enfield, London
I was contracted by this stock exchange listed major materials processing company [world’s largest platinum refinery in 2014] as client side Project/Study Manager for the design, supplier selection, engineering, construction and commissioning of a new processing complex to treat an awkward post-consumer PGM rich material. I managed the step change study using a gated engineering process, in which the project was incrementally defined in stages.
Alongside that major project I had carriage of a suite of medium and minor projects mostly involving the integration of materials handling equipment and control systems.
As Project Manager I oversaw a suite of materials handling projects from initiation to sign off where my accountabilities included:
Example Project - Value ~£500,000 - Furnace feed blending system
Johnson Matthey Plc, Enfield, London
I was contracted by this stock exchange listed major materials processing company [world’s largest platinum refinery in 2014] as client side Project/Study Manager for the design, supplier selection, engineering, construction and commissioning of a new processing complex to treat an awkward post-consumer PGM rich material. I managed the step change study using a gated engineering process, in which the project was incrementally defined in stages.
Alongside that major project I had carriage of a suite of medium and minor projects mostly involving the integration of materials handling equipment and control systems.
As Project Manager I oversaw a suite of materials handling projects from initiation to sign off where my accountabilities included:
- Development of the project scope & budget,
- Identification of vendors; operation of tendering; running vendor conferences and raising orders,
- Tracking Cost & Time with routine reporting to stakeholders.
- Operation of site construction safety controls under CDM, permits to work etc.
- Containment of scope modifications and obtaining authority where required.
- Securing client sign off upon reaching successful operational completion.
- Loading assets into the maintenance scheduling system & inducting maintainers onto new plant.
- Continually tracking & reconciliation of costs between spent & committed against the control budget.
- Ensuring Zero Harm during the life of the project and through HAZOP & design minimise ongoing risk.
Example Project - Value ~£500,000 - Furnace feed blending system
- I project managed a furnace feed system installation which achieved both the desired health and safety and feed rate increase KPI's
- The project:
- Removed occurrences of furnace eruptions (hot metal sprayed throughout the workplace),
- Lifted a process bottleneck around feed preparation thus increasing furnace productivity by ≈20%,
- ensuring all stakeholders including shift maintenance groups were fully prepared for handover.
- The project from site preparation to installation and commissioning was performed with Zero Harm and the installation exceeds availability and throughput benchmarks.