About
Worked in Marine, offshore oil and gas, renewables, defence and Petrochemical industries for many reputable companies. Ships worked on include Caesar, Audacia, Pioneering Spirit, Largs Bay, Enquest Producer, Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carriers, T26 Frigates.
Oil and Gas projects include Buzzard, Dong Siri, Britannia Gas, GDF Suez Cygnus and Nyhamna Expansion Project.
Renewable projects include Galloper, Moray east and Triton Knoll Windfarm projects.
Models and drawings were completed for items ranging from stairs and ladders to Caisson support clamps and decks.
Shop and yard layouts, heavy lifting plans, piping and mechanical items were also completed.
I am confident I can provide high quality models and drawings efficiently.
Experience
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Principal Structural Designer
Expleo · Self-employed
Jun 2022 –
Present
2 yrs 3 mos
Bamber Bridge, England, United Kingdom
Worked Change Requests on the Type 26 Frigate Project. Oversaw multi discipline teams supplying specialist knowledge, solving problems and creating processes. Assisted in model change and updating of drawings ensuring all standards were met. Checked model and drawings, signing off change packs for submission. Created training guides and ran training courses to improve skills across the teams.
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Structural Designer
Smulders UK · Self-employed
Mar 2019 –
Jun 2020
1 yrs 3 mos
Wallsend, England, United Kingdom
Worked on temporary steel and heavy lift plans for 55 offshore wind turbine triangular jackets ranging from 916Te to 1050Te for the Moray East Offshore Windfarm Project and two 265Te Transition Pieces for the Triton Knoll Offshore Windfarm Project.
Arranging shops for transition pieces, jacket leg and cross brace fabrication, 2D/3D build areas for lower jacket assembly, jacket mating areas and jackets storage areas. Each area had 3D AutoCAD models produced helping to avoid any clashes while maximising use of limited space.
Developing designs for heavy duty props, heavy lifting equipment, steel saddles, jacking frames, jacket mating walkways and hotbox welding platforms. Modelled a welding hotbox and produced fabrication drawings in Tekla.
Heavy lifts included leg lifts, cross brace lifts, 2D to 3D roll ups, lower jacket horizontal lifts, lower jacket rotated horizontal lifts, jacket up-endings, lower jacket vertical lifts, upper jacket load-in lifts, mating lifts and full jacket load-out lifts.
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Structural Designer
BAE SYSTEMS · Self-employed
Sep 2016 –
Mar 2019
2 yrs 6 mos
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Type 26 Frigate Project. Designing and modelling large seats for equipment. Took ownership of units modelling the structure within the units. Production of drawing outputs for numerous units including decks, bulkheads, final assembly drawings, unit link ups and nesting. Worked in the shell environment, adding preps/proud material to shell plates and bars. The drawing system used was Foran.