Process Industries Division: How we are governed

Operations Manager, Bradley Pulverizer Company 

Ian has over 30 years experience in engineering is registered as an IEng Engineer in  variety of disciplines including mechanical, electrical and instrumentation and is a member of the IMechE and IET. 

He studied at Canterbury College of Technology in the Department of Engineering and Mining, followed by a technician apprenticeship in aerospace. He then made a move into heavy engineering in a wide range of industries from paper mills and power generation to quarrying and dredging specialising in bulk material handling with conveyors, size reduction and heavy trommel equipment.

He now works for Bradley Pulverizer Company as Operations Manager managing projects from quote to commissioning, as well as managing upgrades and modernisation of existing plants. Specialising in fine powders production and size classification for a wide range of industries from power generation, steel manufacturing and fertilizer to specialised small scale milling of unusual materials.

 His role also involves Broadfield acidulation units for the manufacture of super phosphate fertilizer and acidic salts.

Retired

Murat has over 15 years of experience in engineering. At present, he manages a team of four mechanical engineers responsible for global technical support, product training, research, and the development of rotating equipment couplings at John Crane’s Trafford Park facility in Manchester. Murat founded John Crane’s simulation user group in 2018 which currently engages over 180 engineers and manager globally.

Murat previously chaired the IMechE Lancashire Area Committee and still volunteers for various committees within the North West Region and Greater Manchester, including Process and Power Industries Division centres. He also represented Process Industries at the IMechE’s Young Members Board before recruiting a new representative.

In addition to facilitating various technical events and STEM activities, Murat also chairs Professional Review Interviews and is a Supported Registration Scheme mentor.

Murat previously contracted at Airbus Broughton facility as a Manufacturing Engineer and helped standardising wing assembly and testing procedures for A380 and A320 aircrafts through lean manufacturing principles. He then moved to Trelleborg Offshore UK Ltd and later to BMP Europe Ltd as a subsea cable protection equipment product design and development engineer. Murat has filed a commercialised patent titled “Ducting” for subsea cable protection with exceptional performance in testing, installation, and operation.

Richard is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 25 years experience in engineering major turnarounds for onshore oil refineries and gas facilities.

He works as an independent contractor for a number of major oil and gas companies and global consultancies in the UK and overseas.

Whilst undertaking his mechanical engineering degree at Imperial College, Richard gained work experience in the nuclear fuel industry. After graduation he spent five years in heavy steel industry maintenance during which he gained chartered status via the IMechE MPDS process. He then progressed to turnaround engineering in the process industries.

Operations Manager, Fulifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies UK Ltd

Director, Zulu Joint Integrity & Training Ltd

Chris Mellows has 31 years’ experience in the oil, gas and chemical industries.

Rather than following a purely academic route, Chris started his career as a mechanical engineering apprentice with BP Chemicals and has since worked specifically within the downstream oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical industries for various blue chip organisations as well as contract support companies. During his career, he gained particular mechanical joint integrity experience on refinery HF Alkylation units. It was this experience that drove Chris to become involved in QA/QC for turnarounds and projects and eventually enabled him to start his own business in 2009 specialising in joint integrity management and leak prevention of bolted joints for UK COMAH sites. Chris and his team now also deliver industry standard joint integrity training and assessment courses throughout the UK (and overseas).

He has extensive experience of supporting assets in terms of design and delivery of joint integrity processes in line with industry guidelines and best practice to help achieve a safe and timely leak-free start up of plant and has a passion for supporting UK apprentice programmes in terms of training delivery and competency assessment of bolted connections of pressurised systems. Chris is a qualified NVQ assessor, a member of the Chartered Quality Institute (Practitioner) and the Chartered Management Institute (Fellow).

Projects Director, Norton Straw Consultants

Reader in Energy & Thermodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Compliance Officer, GSK Pharma Engineering and EHS

Founder, AscenTrack Consulting, Pune, India

Secretary and Treasurer, India Technical Centre

Associate Member

Retired

Martyn Ralph, is a recently retired, International Brewery Design Engineer.

He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, a member of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling and a member of the Brewing Engineers Association. Martyn worked for large multinational brewers and consulting engineers on five continents, designing breweries and acting as Owner’s Representative on multi-million dollar projects. He is a specialist in managing projects in third-world and developing countries.

His skills as a brewery engineer have also been used in the hygienic, non-brewing sectors, such as Dairy Processing, Baby Foods, Soft Drinks, Food, Toiletries and Polymers.

Martyn also worked as a Consultant for Micro-brewery owners including the Little Creatures and Mikkeller Breweries in London.

Outsourcing Manager, Process Industries, GSK

Operations Manager, Bradley Pulverizer Company 

Ian has over 30 years experience in engineering is registered as an IEng Engineer in  variety of disciplines including mechanical, electrical and instrumentation and is a member of the IMechE and IET. 

He studied at Canterbury College of Technology in the Department of Engineering and Mining, followed by a technician apprenticeship in aerospace. He then made a move into heavy engineering in a wide range of industries from paper mills and power generation to quarrying and dredging specialising in bulk material handling with conveyors, size reduction and heavy trommel equipment.

He now works for Bradley Pulverizer Company as Operations Manager managing projects from quote to commissioning, as well as managing upgrades and modernisation of existing plants. Specialising in fine powders production and size classification for a wide range of industries from power generation, steel manufacturing and fertilizer to specialised small scale milling of unusual materials.

 His role also involves Broadfield acidulation units for the manufacture of super phosphate fertilizer and acidic salts.

Retired

Lead Integrity Engineer, Oil Gas Exploration & Operations

BP Exploration & Production Company Limited, Azerbaijan