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Jill Crease

Jill Crease

Brentwood,essex

Summary

I am a chartered Chemical Engineer, whose career has been spent working with Upper Tier COMAH, high hazard facilities. Having performed technical engineering, operational and managerial roles, I have a broad range of theoretical, practical, interpersonal, communication and leadership skills. I enjoy a challenge and the opportunity to think creatively.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Oil, Gas, Petrochemicals and Marine Risk Engineering Team Leader

Zurich Insurance
07.2024 - 01.2025
  • Leading a team of onshore, offshore and marine specialist risk engineers
  • Global Head of Practice for Oil and Gas engaging the Zurich OGP community
  • Leading oil, gas and petrochemicals property, casualty and construction surveys with production of market reports
  • Ensuring upskilling of self and the team to support the energy transition in new technologies such as carbon capture, green and blue hydrogen and biogas

Specialist Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals Risk Engineer

Zurich Insurance
09.2022 - 06.2024
  • Using my in-depth working experience of refinery process and systems and my process safety knowledge I have participated in market surveys globally, and conducted desktop reviews to inform underwriter decisions
  • I have been specifically requested for repeat surveys by clients
  • I have formed strong working relationships with Zurich underwriters, broker and market engineers and clients based on trust and reliability
  • Analysis and evaluation of plant risks within the oil, gas and petrochemical sector in terms of property damage, business interruption, construction all risks and third party liability
  • EML and PML assessments using vapour cloud explosion modelling tools and business interruption estimations
  • Analysis of claims data with feedback to technical standards and engineering programs
  • Account Engineering
  • Evaluation of construction projects transferring to operational policies

UK Senior Process Engineer

Navigator Terminals UK, formerly Vopak
05.2016 - 08.2022
  • Driving continuous improvement in Process Safety to control risks to ALARP, ensuing compliance with relevant standards
  • Adding value through project lifetimes from conception to commissioning, producing basis of design documents
  • P&IDs
  • Design calculations
  • Control system philosophy
  • Cause and effect diagrams
  • Leading multi-disciplinary teams in safety studies such as HAZOP, LOPA and risk assessments
  • Stewardship of the control systems
  • Support to Operations through troubleshooting, coaching and writing Operational procedures
  • Comah report validation
  • Ownership of key processes and procedures (inc
  • Management of Change)
  • Investing in the future through mentoring, training and coaching of staff

Engineering Technical Consultant

Vopak
01.2012 - 01.2016
  • Representing Vopak during the redesign of Coryton refinery into a terminal, embedded with the EPC contractor Process team
  • Leading, and providing technical guidance for decommissioning activities (former refinery plant)

Utilities Asset Team Leader

Petroplus Coryton Refinery, formerly BP Oil UK Ltd
01.2006 - 01.2012
  • Managing the safe, reliable operation of the Utilities area of the refinery including steam and power generation (450 Te/hr steam generation and 40MW power over three gas fired boilers, a GTG and 4 turbine generators)
  • Managing the operations workforce and their training to ensure a balanced, skilled workforce
  • Establishing the long-term improvement opportunities for the Utilities area and leading an engineering team to deliver these
  • Management of the site Fire Response arrangements, personnel, equipment, training and site emergency response
  • Implementation of a site wide emergency response exercise program

Shift Manager

BP Oil UK Ltd Coryton Refinery
01.2003 - 01.2006
  • Ensuring safe, reliable, optimal operation of the refinery within environmental constraints
  • This required a comprehensive knowledge of all refinery operations and processes, their interactions and dependencies
  • Management of the 60 shift operating personnel
  • Emergency response, leading the site medical and fire teams
  • Providing updates to and communicating with all layers
  • Liaising with external authorities, i.e
  • Environmental Agency, Fire and Rescue Service, Police, Port of London Authority

Crude scheduler/Refinery Planner

BP Oil UK Ltd Coryton Refinery
01.2001 - 01.2003
  • Crude Scheduler-Planning crude oil arrivals for the refinery to ensure the feed blend met refinery constraints while maximising margins
  • Evaluation and assessment of new refinery feedstocks
  • Working closely with the Crude trading function and site schedulers
  • Refinery Planner-using Linear Programme representation of the refinery to evaluate the optimum additional feed and product optionality, testing sensitivities and communicating outcomes to the trading functions and site engineers

Process Engineer

BP Oil UK Ltd Coryton Refinery
01.1998 - 01.2001
  • Monitoring daily operations to improve rates and yields and ensure long-term reliability, plant troubleshooting, supervising plant start-ups, shut-downs and test-runs, carrying out process inspections during plant outages

Education

BEng (hons) - Chemical Engineering

University of Surrey
01.1994 - 01.1998

9 GCSEs, 3 A Levels - Physics, Chemistry and Maths

Horndean School
01.1988 - 01.1994

Certification

IChemE Chartered status

IChemE Hazop Leader assessed training

Nebosh General Certificate (Distinction)

Chartered Insurance Institute Certificate

Affiliations

  • My personal interests include skiing and playing the trumpet. To unwind I run and practise yoga.

Timeline

Oil, Gas, Petrochemicals and Marine Risk Engineering Team Leader

Zurich Insurance
07.2024 - 01.2025

Specialist Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals Risk Engineer

Zurich Insurance
09.2022 - 06.2024

UK Senior Process Engineer

Navigator Terminals UK, formerly Vopak
05.2016 - 08.2022

Engineering Technical Consultant

Vopak
01.2012 - 01.2016

Utilities Asset Team Leader

Petroplus Coryton Refinery, formerly BP Oil UK Ltd
01.2006 - 01.2012

Shift Manager

BP Oil UK Ltd Coryton Refinery
01.2003 - 01.2006

Crude scheduler/Refinery Planner

BP Oil UK Ltd Coryton Refinery
01.2001 - 01.2003

Process Engineer

BP Oil UK Ltd Coryton Refinery
01.1998 - 01.2001

BEng (hons) - Chemical Engineering

University of Surrey
01.1994 - 01.1998

9 GCSEs, 3 A Levels - Physics, Chemistry and Maths

Horndean School
01.1988 - 01.1994

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