Ross Gilmore

I am a qualified incident commander holdong the rank of Crew Manager.

Providing response to range of incident types as an operational firefighter, in order to

save saveable life, saveable property and the environment whilst, providing prevention and protection education in the local community to make lancashire safer as a whole.

● Respond safely and swiftly to emergency incidents including but not exclusively; Road traffic collisions, Water Rescue, Fires, Animal rescue, Incidents at height/confined space/below ground, bariatric persons rescues, HAZMAT incidents, rail & aircraft.

● Maintain, inspect, test and repair all operational equipment to approved standards and procedures;

● Ensuring high levels of fitness maintained;

● Working within the community providing fire safety advice in local schools and to all members of the community taking care to be sensitive to the needs of different cultures within the county;

● Maintain competency within given role and strive towards further personal development;

● Undertake routine administration tasks as required in order to ensure all entries to records are correct and kept up to date

● Practice and promote the Health and Safety policies of the Service;

● Experience working with different types of pumps/priming systems and appliances across the service including the aerial ladder platform;

● Additional qualifications within role;

● Breathing Apparatus Team Leader

● Immediate Emergency Care qualification (clinically governed by Trauma resus)

● Qualified LGV C+E Driver (20 years experience) with EFAD / ERDT (Blue light) Driver

Supervised on-site tasks for quality assurance and control.

I am employed as a Driver Technician working on the Total Energies Bitumen contract. This is a highly safety focused and prioritised environment whereby zero harm is at the core of all we do. Following a lengthy training program, I am responsible for the controlled loading 30000 litres of bitumen into road tankers, onward transportation to customer sites and the safe discharge of product into storage this requires me to follow lengthy procedures all designed to prevent negligent discharge or uncontrolled release of products which can be in excess of 200 degrees.

My role involves the use of both pressure and pumps to transfer products and the opening and closing of valves in the correct sequence, this achieved by following set procedures, crossing off each point as I move along and monitoring pressures and levels. it is a complex and potentially dangerous role however taking responsibility and following all procedures ensures a safe working environment.

• UK / Ireland General Haulage and ADR regulated loads.
• Multiple load types and restraint methods.
• Safe loading and efficient transport of goods

• My role involved the transport of hazardous and dangerous, chemicals, liquids and gases throughout the UK whisky adhering to current rules and regulations to deliver an effective, efficient and safe service to customers and the wider community.
• Lone working with autonomy for route planning in accordance with ADR regulation's for the safe transportation of hazardous good by road.
• Maintained clean, compliant company vehicles ensuring the prevention of cross contamination of loads.
• Checked items for safe loading and security, adhering to specified load capacity information.

As a tanker driver I began on a blood contract, sampling and extracting bovine and porcine blood from abattoirs using pumps to load and discharge.

I moved onto general purpose liquid tanks and eventually ADR loads moving all manner of products across the UK / IRELAND.

I also loaded and discharged bulk powder blowing/ tipping tanks.

Transport manager/ owner operator of a small fleet of 44tonne vehicles. My business being a mix of own account and 3PL, largely centred on the movement of specialist aggregates and commodities on behalf of the cement production and agricultural industry.

When a service agreement with a major contributor to the volume of my business was lost in in 2018 I decided to close the company and divert my attentions to my young family.

A formidable experience, running the business was certainly one of my greatest challenges and achievements of which I am proud.

The skills gained have and will always carry me in my future roles as well as humble me and make me thankful for being part of a team in much larger organisations where knowledge is shared and gained through interactions and ever evolving processes.

• Employed as an undergraduate transport planner during paid student placement year
• Responsibilities included the review of Transport Assesments as part of the Departmenr of Environment
• Transport Assesment review contract and make necessary recommendations and amendments; undertake traffic surveys; undertake site surveys; produce transport assesments and plans for public and private sector organisatiome.

Following my early career as an Infantry Soldier, I joined the Army Reserves and committed the next 16 years to balancing both a civilian and millitary career, giving something back to the wider community whilst gaining and benefiting from multitude of leadership and management skills and training opportunities which have been transferrable across my civilian endeavours.

As a class 1 Infantry Soldier I was deployed on Operation Banner between 02-06 on internal security and counter terrorism. In its breifest format my role included; Covert observation and reconissence, Public Order duties, Urban and Rural Patrols, Intelligence gathering.
Skills gained include;

• Signaller
• Team medic
• Advanced Driver
• Endurance Team Leader

ADR Chemical tanker deliviery predominantly class 2 & 8 chemicals to customers across the UK.

Safley loading Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Hypochlorite, Ferric etc in line with company and loading site proceedures.

Safe discharge of products at customers site, adhering to company safe operating proceedures and customer site specific safety instructions.

Delivering to water / utilities facilities.