Process People Tracker June

Process People: June 2008

Grundfos Pumps Ltd / Simon Smart - Area sales manager representing its industrial end-user market team in Scotland and the North of England: Smart started as a mechanical marine apprentice at Rosyth Royal Dockyard working on naval ships and submarines. On completion of his apprenticeship he achieved a national certificate in mechanical engineering and continued to work at the dockyard as an engineer for a further three years before joining Woodside Pneumatics/Airchannel as a Service Engineer. He was promoted into an external sales role, where he enjoyed four successful years prior to joining Grundfos.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) / Professor William Banks - The 123rd president of the IMechE: Will step down as professor of Advanced Materials within the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Strathclyde later this year. He will continue the IMechE’s nationwide campaign to encourage more young people into engineering as the sector faces a shortfall of skilled staff. He replaces out-going IMechE president John Baxter, group engineering director of BP. Banks has been a leading advocate in the education sector calling upon the urgent need for Government and industry to work together to develop the next generation of engineers. Currently tens of thousands of engineers are estimated to be needed to fill vacancies in the UK from engineering technicians to senior engineering posts in transport, energy and manufacturing sectors.

Adept Scientific plc / Surak Perera - Applications support specialist: Joins Adept having recently completed a MEng in Aerospace at Southampton University. His Masters project was to design and manufacture a thermal mass flowmeter for an experimental rocket engine’s fuel intake system. Working initially on the popular Mathcad software, Surak will be extending his expertise to cover the full range of maths products offered by Adept. Paul Bragg, MD, commented: “Surak is a welcome addition to our technical support team and has a lot to offer both our customers and Adept. His extensive experience and knowledge of applied mathematics is exactly what we need for this very technical product range.”

Nuclear Engineering Services Ltd (NESL) / Richard Creed - Business area manager for all three of its operating divisions, Nuclear, Defence and Power Jet Systems (PJS): For the last four years Creed was MD of E2 Europe based in Cumbria and before that worked for 11 years at E2's Hanford office in Washington State, as North West office manager. NESL sales director, John Cooper said: “[Creed] brings with him a wealth of experience gained from his diverse background working on and managing contracts in the nuclear and environmental remediation areas.”

SLR Consulting / Graham Jones - associate: Has over ten years’ experience in the waste and petrochemical industry, and previously worked for VT Environmental Engineering as a project designer, on its first PFI bid for a waste facility in the UK. He has also worked in Vienna, Austria for LUGA as a commissioning engineer/ designer engineer, on site up-grades at OMV oil refinery, and prior to that worked for PEKO AG in Zurich, Switzerland where he was a site manager overseeing the final building stage and plant commissioning of a 300 t/p/d MSW plant at Tynes Bay, Bermuda. Jones said: “I was attracted to SLR because of its in-depth knowledge in the energy from waste sector and its involvement in numerous planning applications for new EFW plants within the UK.”

RESON / Angus Cooper: Vice President of Sales for EMEA - Joins underwater acoustic sensors company RESON with more than 20 years of international work experience within the offshore and homeland security industries. He joins us from Thales, where he held various positions, most recently as Business Development Director for Homeland Security. Angus Cooper’s career includes working for companies like Fugro and Racal Survey.