Daniel Greaves

My primary duties and responsibilities include:

• Monitoring water levels at Toddbrook reservoir using CRT's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and JBA (advanced forecasting software that models rainfall, flows and reservoir levels), and through visual inspection.
• Completing critical monthly penstock/sluice manual override tests and refuelling the generator on a regular basis.
• Operating the main scour valve underneath the dam to adjust the water level of the reservoir in line with set safe parameters.
• Being available on standby / on-calls overnight to maintain safe water levels.
• Liaising with colleagues, team leaders, volunteer team leads, CRT engineers, project managers, duty officers, and Keir contractors.

Other duties and responsibilities for the Macclesfield and Peak Forest team include:

• Reactive work (canal breaches, sluice leaks, lock failures, animal and boat retrieval, fallen trees, environmental contamination).
• Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPMs) on Trust assets (locks, culverts, weirs, bridges), and vegetation clearance on workboats.
• Planned ZX notifications e.g. filling holes in towpaths, building fencing, hanging gates, tree limb sawing.
• Routine work (water control of grids on feeders around the network, bin-store clearance, collecting materials and taking vehicles to and fro for maintenance).

My duties and responsibilities included:

• Liaising with clients to formulate proposals
• Designing mixed methods approaches (qualitative and quantitative)
• Creating data collection tools (questionnaires, surveys, focus group topic guides, semi-structured interviews, and observational matrices
• Ethics submissions
• Recruitment (telephone and web)
• Data collection (administering questionnaires, surveys, conducting interviews, facilitating focus groups and observational data
• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis using statistical packages and thematic software
• Writing scientific peer reviewed reports
• Presenting findings to stakeholders

I also trained clients in the basics of survey design and analysis and was also a Safety Climate Tool (SCT) and Human Factors (HF) consultant.