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MEET THE FINALISTS

Let’s meet the finalists of this year’s YPPC positive impact it can have on a project
when enforced correctly. It will also
Irish Section Ventures as SGN’s newly established explore how effective document control
Niamh Gillen Productivity Lead and Product Manager, can influence the progression of a project
Innovation Engineer, driving digital transformational change. and maintain consistency in the team.
Gas Networks Ireland
Niamh’s work experience has been Driving Transformational Change in the
primarily around decarbonising the Gas Industry North East & Yorkshire Section
gas network in Ireland through carbon SGN and utilities worldwide are Rebecca Senior
capture and storage and biomethane. under pressure from customers and Engineer, ROSEN UK
Niamh took a particular interest in CCS regulators to do more with less, while Rebecca graduated with a Bachelor’s
and carbon dioxide storage in geological maintaining a safe and reliable flow of degree in Mechanical Engineering
formations due to her undergraduate gas to customers. By leveraging digital from the University of Northumbria, in
degree in Geology and Petroleum Geology technology, SGN is keeping pace with 2018, and completed a placement year
from the University of Aberdeen. Niamh these growing expectations. Ben’s at pipeline engineering consultancy
is currently upskilling through an MSc presentation outlines the key issues, the ROSEN UK, formerly MACAW. After
in Project Management in the hope of solutions developed, and impressive completing her degree, she returned
managing large scale decarbonisation results achieved by SGN’s most recent to ROSEN UK as a Graduate Engineer
projects for GNI in the future. ground-breaking digital application. working with the pipeline integrity
geotechnical team. Rebecca is currently
Decarbonisation of the Gas Network – studying part time for a Master’s
Carbon Capture and Storage Midlands Section degree in Geotechnical Engineering at
This project explores the feasibility Amy Tate Newcastle University.
of CCS in Ireland with various Document Controller, Capital Delivery
business models being assessed for (Construction), Cadent Using SAR Imagery to Detect Flooding
implementation including an indigenous Amy began her career at Cadent in 2015 Flooding can threaten the integrity of
storage option, utilising the depleted as an Emergency Call Handler (ECH) a pipeline and its associated assets.
Kinsale Head Gas Field as a storage site. for the national gas emergency Service. Rebecca’s paper describes how she
During her time as an ECH, she was employed synthetic aperture radar
also asked to support the training of (SAR) imagery and remote sensing
London, Southern and Eastern Section new starters as well as the coaching of methods to detect areas of flooding
Ben Croxford colleagues who were not compliant with along a pipeline and to allow the
Senior Business Partner, SHE process. She was transferred to Capital pipeline operator to significantly
Development (Tech IOSH), SGN Delivery in July 2019 and began her role reduce the risk of flooding and improve
Ben started his gas industry journey as as a Document Controller, assigned to the maintenance efficiency.
a 16-year old apprentice, quickly rising HS2 programme of works. Since joining
through the ranks to become SGN’s the team, her knowledge has grown
youngest manager at 21. His leadership exponentially, solidifying her decision North West Section
success continued through the health, to develop further in this area. She has Sikander Mahmood
safety and environment team with since begun the APM Fundamentals Project Manager - Future Networks, Cadent
a promotion to Senior Business course and plans to complete the APM Sikander graduated from the University
Partner, responsible for delivering Project Management/Project Professional of Bradford with a Bachelor’s degree
organisational/safety culture strategies qualifications in the future. in Mechanical Engineering. He spent a
and launching SGN’s health and year in industry working for National
wellbeing programme. His professional Document Control for Cadent HS2 Grid before completing his degree
attitude and skill set made him the Pipeline Diversions Project and eventually joining Cadent on the
obvious choice to work collaboratively This presentation aims to show the graduate programme. During his first
with Boston Consultancy Group Digital importance of document control and the couple of years, he worked on multiple

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