Patrick Powell
London
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Project Manager
Department of Energy Secuity and Net Zero
London
05.2024 - 10.2024
- Managed inter-departmental and arm length bodies to update the UK's National Nuclear Emergency Planning and Response Guidence. Ensuring the document was up to date and adherered to recent regulatory and legal changes.
- Worked collaboratively with the Emergency Preparedness and resilience team to create the first NNEPRG Governance structure. Securing approval from all stakeholders to lead cross-functional teams to achieve the project goals.
- Formed and chaired the NNEPRG coordination committee that would oversee the project health throughout the project lifecycle. Ensuring that the team were fully aligned to the sproject scope and schedule through vigirous stakeholder management.
- Created an effective risk management plan that identified, assessed, and mitigated risks to the project. Achieved through holding stakeholder sessions to outline specific risks and inter-dependencies between organisations involved.
- Created and maintained project schedules that identified tasks, dependencies, and timelines.
Nuclear Fuel Policy Advisor
Department of Energy Secuity and Net Zero
London
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Seconded to DESNZ, as part of the graduate scheme, to deliver the £75m Nuclear Fuel Fund and the UK's £300m first High Assay Low Enriched Uranium programme.
- Working collaboratively with policy team and project management office to develop the strategic and outline business cases for the UK's High Assay Low Enriched Uranium fuel (HALEU) business case.
- Identifying and agreeing the scope, timescales and benefits sought of the portfolio of projects proposed. Conducting extensive stakeholder engagement and ensuring the business case was delivered to the quality required for approval at decision gates.
- Providing written and verbal briefings for senior ministers and the Secretary of State on the UK's nuclear Policy.
- The HALEU Programme business case was approved by His Majesty's Treasury and secured funding.
Project Manager
Nuclear Restoration Services
Winfrith Newburgh
11.2022 - 07.2023
- Worked collaboratively with project managers and engineers within the Robotics team to safely decommission the steam generated hard-water reactor core.
- Worked in collaboration with site engineers to provide an accurate estimation of core segmentation duration. Errors found in calculation led to an accurate estimation of project duration.
- Worked closely with principal contractor and senior project manager to ensure that the programme of decommissioning achieves value to the tax payer. Collecting evidence of delays by the principal contractor in order to negate compensation events that would increase monetary burden to tax payer
- Moreover, working closely with Safety engineers to guarantee a safe working environment. Including, weekly safety walk rounds to identify and mitigate hazards
Data Analyst Intern
New Nutrition Business
Glasgow
09.2019 - 04.2025
- Undertook a four month internship with New Nutrition Business - a food and drink consultancy.
- The internship was a research project aimed to determine the profitability of 110 UK companies that sold healthy food and drink products.
- Determined the financial performance of each company by analysing published accounts.
- Utilising strong research and writing skills to calculate the profitability and analyse to compare to similar companies.
- Gained key experience working under pressure to strict time constraints in meeting weekly targets.
- Developing strong organisational and communication skills when managing the project with other teams.
- Presented the report to clients and the company's board, explaining the research process and the impact of the findings
- Developed and published the analysis report, with New Nutrition Business has made it available for clients
- A food and drink consultancy
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Politics and Economics
University of Manchester
09.2016 - 06.2019
A-Levels -
University College School
London 09.2009 - 06.2016
Skills
APM PFQ
APM PMQ
Languages
English
Timeline
Project Manager
Department of Energy Secuity and Net Zero
05.2024 - 10.2024
Nuclear Fuel Policy Advisor
Department of Energy Secuity and Net Zero
08.2023 - 05.2024
Project Manager
Nuclear Restoration Services
11.2022 - 07.2023
Data Analyst Intern
New Nutrition Business
09.2019 - 04.2025
Bachelor of Arts - Politics and Economics
University of Manchester
09.2016 - 06.2019
A-Levels -
University College School
09.2009 - 06.2016
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