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National Grid - Capital Delivery

SYSTEMS MANAGER, National Grid, National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
January, 2018

First role in Project Controls undertaking the Gas Reporting and Systems Manager role. This encompasses management of a team to compile systems updates and reports for dissemination to the business and for monthly management reviews.

The role has required review of Cost Management approaches and reviews of how to provide the analysis across market providers.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
0
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1050
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
0

Change Control Manager, National Grid, National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
January, 2014

Change Control Manager, Project Controls, Capital Delivery, National Grid plc

Alliance programme manager, UK National Grid, National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
May, 2007
END Date: 
May, 2013
Alliance Programme Manager. The aim of this role was to set up and implement the programme management processes required for one of National Grid's electricity alliances.
Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
8050

National Planning Manager, UK National Grid, National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
May, 2013
END Date: 
April, 2016
Planning Manager; In this role my responsibility was to set up a planning team to support the "client side" following National Grid's decision to move away from the "Alliance model" This included setting up the planning processs, documenting the policies and resourcing the team
Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
5000

Programme Planning Engineer, National Grid UK, National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
June, 2017

Programme Planning Engineer - South Region

 

Capital Delivery - Project Controls

Cost Estimator, National Grid Limited, National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
May, 2017

-The production of pre-tender cost estimates for electricity transmission projects, with a high focus being applied to transmission via extra high voltage cables

-The production of cost and scheduling models with the use of expert judgement and historic data

-The development of cost estimation models to reduce the resource time required for estimation.

-The identification of the independent variables to which cost is highly sensitive is central to this

-The use of EclipseCS estimating software

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
400
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1250

Electricity Projects Planner, National Grid Limited, National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
October, 2015
END Date: 
May, 2017

My role at National Grid was to continue to provide the services as per my time as a contractor supplied from Logikal Projects. In addition, I contributed to data analysis for: stakeholder management, key performance indices, and National Grid planning process improvements. I produced managerial plans for increasing the maturity of work conducted by the scheduling team for the Electricity Transmission Project Controls function. I became a skilled user of Primavera P6 during this role.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
2800
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
500

Senior Planner, Costain Integrated Services (formally Rhead Group), National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
January, 2014
END Date: 
March, 2016

Senior Planner with Costain Integrated Services (formally Rhead Group), working with National Grid on one of their capital delivery projects being executed under NEC3 contract, reviewing programmes, generating reports and reporting to the Project Team and senior management.

The work involved sites visits, to review with the subcontractors, their programmes and progress.  Attending meetings to with various stakeholders to review, advise on progress. Provide risk information and idenify recovery options where applicable.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
3900
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
300
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
300

Senior Project Control, MWH Global, National Grid - Capital Delivery

START Date: 
October, 2012
END Date: 
February, 2013

 

Senior Project Controller, part of the team that develop and implement initiatives to enhance National Grid's program delivery.

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