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14 Golders Green, Liverpool, L7 6HB Claire McCann CV Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 7725 124928

Claire McCann Career Aspiration: Development of Project Management skills in complex technical issues, with aim of moving into Operational Management. Summary of skills

Chartered Engineer, 1st class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering with Aeronautics (University of Glasgow, 2007).

Association of Project Manager Professionals Level D accreditation.

7 years’ experience in the energy & aerospace consultancy industry (Several clients, UK & Middle East)

Leadership of project teams to resolve complex issues to meet client requirements.

Experienced in coordination and management of project teams to ensure delivery of interdependent deliverables to appropriate quality standards within time and budget restrictions.

Effective communicator and stakeholder management.

Project financial management & accountability.

Risk management, including identification and implementation of appropriate resolution.

Change control management.

Key Experience

Cobham Mission Systems KC-46 Conformity Phase Project Manager (Cobham Project Manager)

Urenco UK (UUK) Safety Case Implementation Delivery Lead (UUK Project Manager).

Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) Operating Licence Application (OLA) Project Management Team for Barakah Nuclear Power Station (Abu Dhabi) (ENEC Project Manager).

ENEC OLA Risk Management (ENEC Role).

Management of multiple stakeholders to deliver standardised documentation for the EDF Energy Nuclear. Power Plant Fleet within a recognised challenging timescale (EDF Energy Project Manager).

Portfolio manager for three Atkins programmes providing support to EDF Energy Fuel Integrity programme (Atkins Project Manager).

Work Experience

Feb 2009 - Present Senior Mechanical Engineer, Atkins Energy, Atkins Engineering Consultancy, Warrington, England

Atkins is one of the world’s leading design, engineering and project management consultancies.

As an engineer I have a strong technical foundation upon which I have developed effective delivery skills to manage a team to generate and implement appropriate technical solutions to complex issues.

Worked with several Atkins clients (Cobham Mission Systems, NuGen, Urenco UK (UUK), Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) & EDF Energy) frequently directly seconded into the client organisation.

Cobham Mission Systems Project Manager (KC-46 Conformity Programme) (Oct 2016 - ongoing)

Project Manager within Cobham Mission Systems KC-46 Conformity Programme, specifically the Cobham assembly & conformity of the Wing Aerial Refuelling Pods (WARP) for delivery to Boeing.

Achievements:

Generation of fully costed programme to complete WARP build & conformity.

Definition & delivery to conformity schedule to enable WARP build & delivery, based on sub-component availability.

Fortnightly financial reporting (including approval of supplier contracts)

Prompt rectification of daily issues

Multidiscipline team management (Quality Assurance, Paperwork & Operations)

NuGen Project Manager (March 2016 – Sep 2016)

Project Management support to three work streams within the Moorside Project (Nuclear Site Licence (NSL) application, Funded Decommissioning Programme (FDP) & Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC)) facilitating work stream development to achieve the upcoming milestone of Interim Investment Decision (IID):

Achievements:

Generation of Integrated Project Schedule & Monthly Reporting

Work Stream financial management (budget, supplier payment)

Nuclear Site Licence (NSL) Application:


Definition & Implementation of NSL application documentation governance route (including instigation of Independent Technical Assessment). Integration with other work streams to deliver required information.

NSL Application Interim Consistency Review coordination & delivery Funded Decommissioning Programme (FDP):

Supplier contract definition & review. Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC):

Action tracker (NuGen & EPC Consortium Actions) development & subsequent management, including responding to EPC Consortium request for information.

Project management team delivering Revision 4 of the Owners Requirements (requiring significant stakeholder management) to the EPC Consortium.

Urenco UK E23 Continued Operation Safety & Environmental Report (COSER) Implementation Delivery Lead & Atkins Project Manager (July 2015 – Dec 2015)

UUK Delivery Lead responsible for implementing engineering solutions to resolve safety significant shortfalls identified within COSER on active E23 plant, meeting regulatory requirements necessitating plant modifications.

Management of Atkins contract (8 ppl.) to provide over £1million worth of support to the UUK E23 COSER programme.

Achievements:

Successful delivery of 2 engineering solutions to Design Review.

Delivery of key safety case supporting documentation (to enable continued plant operation)

Instigation and implementation of an appropriate Quality Assurance process adhered to by Delivery Team. UUK Delivery Lead Responsibilities:

Management of integrated engineering teams to develop and implement engineering solutions on four aspects of plant to meet regulatory requirements in line with UUK processes, cost and timescale restrictions. Accountable to project owner.

Coordination of communication between project stakeholders and engineering team, including change control.

Implementation and utilisation of active project risk management.

Instigation of project Quality Assurance process (QA) and implementing its compliance within project outputs.

Generation and maintenance of live project schedule and resource loading.

Atkins Project Manager Responsibilities:

Effective resource utilisation of multi-discipline Atkins team (8-10 personnel, several offices) within project budget to work on behalf of UUK and implement engineering solutions on plant (Project Value >£1million).

Securement of contract extension in line with client requirements.

Financial Management and accountability.

Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) Operating Licence Application (OLA) Project Manager (Oct 2014 – May 2015)

Accountable for delivery of OLA Submission Supporting Documents to regulator; meeting ENEC Operational Milestone.

Coordination and interaction with multiple senior stakeholders to ensure eleven supporting documents required for operating license application to regulator delivered on time to agreed scope and quality.

Reporting weekly Key Performance Indicators of Operating License Application project to senior management.

Communication focal point between engineering teams in Korea, Barakah site (BNPP), Abu Dhabi, facilitating transfer of information and generation of weekly status updates.

Coordinator of pre-submittal executive meeting and appropriate executive close out of actions generated.

Risk Management: working with engineering team to define and assess consequence of impact of all risks and issues impacting on OLA submission. Identification of suitable risk management actions to resolve, ensuring these are achieved & appropriately communicated to individual owners and management.

ENEC Final Safety Analysis Report Review Technical Project Management Support (July 2014 – Oct 2014)

Generation of appropriate and succinct comment forms to return to KEPCO (Reactor vendor and prime contractor).

Atkins project manager for the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) review support team coordinating the collation and disposition of significant numbers of FSAR review comments (over 2000) from numerous technical stakeholders.

EDF Energy Secondment SBERG Project Manager (Nov 2013 – June 2014)

Fleetwide Implementation of standardised System Based Emergency Response Guidelines (SBERG) procedures for each EDF Energy power station (7), tailored to each station whilst maintaining an overall fleet consistency.

Management of five technical authors and station & technical stakeholders (>30) to deliver a station specific procedure, associated regulatory documentation & training, whilst maintaining a fleetwide consistent approach

Delivery within budget (c£0.5m) to align with closure of EDF Japanese Earthquake Response Programme.

Management of Programme (challenging timescales) and Technical Risk

Facilitation & lead of all communication to wider programme, stakeholders and technical team

Portfolio Manager, Fuel Route Support to Fleet Critical Programmes (Oct 2012 – Nov 2013)

Accountable for delivering Atkins Fuel Route Systems Branch (FRSB) support to three separate workstreams within EDF Energy Fuel Integrity Programme.


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